Chandelis R. Duster examines a new study on the economic and social costs of segregation between Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites in the United States in the article, "Study: Racial Segregation is Costing the Country". Racial segregation affects incomes and safety for all. Desegregating cities would lead to an increase in incomes for black Americans, a decrease in homicide rates, and an increase in college graduates. This is especially important for cities like Chicago, that have extremely high crime rates. Desegregation would help improve the economy and cultural ties. If more people had higher incomes, they would be able to contribute more to the economy. Higher degrees of education and lower crime rates would do the same. I think it is important economically and socially to enact policies that would encourage less segregation between all Americans. We need to pressure our representatives and other politicians to pursue such policies.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/study-racial-segregation-costing-country-n741306
3 comments:
This is a very interesting article and offers many strong points. It seems that segregation in our country is getting worse and worse, especially since President Trump took office. This is why I agree that we need to pressure our representatives and politicians and encourage inclusiveness in our communities and economy.
Although I agree to a certain extent that racial divides have had more prevalence in recent times, the study indicated that it was between 1990 and 2010. One could argue that Trump's presidency could have been a result of these economic and racial segregations (because the two have commonly been linked) so I don't think it is fair to attribute anything to his "odd" presidency so far when he can't cause rascism in america to "become worse" when he's only three months into his presidency. He should be fairly accounted for his failures (of which there are many) and fairly accounted for his triumphs (of which there are few)
I think that while Trump's presidency may have escalated the issue of racial segregation in the workplace and at large, it is fair to say that it has been prevalent in the American society throughout history. I do not think the current administration's representatives have such social issues on their agenda. As we have seen their top priority has been undoing Obama's progress. Yet they have failed to produce an alternative such as the issue of healthcare. As for income, I think they are more concerned in keeping an economic divide as to accumulate wealth. Focusing on racial desegregation and higher incomes across the spectrum would lessen the economic divide and consequently lower the top 5%'s wealth. In my opinion under the current presidency we may not see progress on the matter of desegregation.
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