1960s Racial Inequality
The Civil Rights Act of the 1960s outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Despite the Civil Rights laws and the energy of equality supporters, inequality in America persists among race. Racial Inequality is defined as the imbalances in the distribution of economic, opportunities and power. Moreover, Africans Americans and Whites economic inequality merged because the economic disadvantage of blacks made it harder for this group to save money, since in poverty, people live day by day. Race plays a big role in American life. Blacks were subject to slavery, following segregation, creating and affecting inequality in welfare and employment.
Before the Civil Rights Act passed in the 1960s, segregation was …show more content…
These programs are “Aid to Families with Dependent Children” and “Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.” In the article “Welfare Limits Left Poor Adrift as Recession Hit”, the author, Jason DeParle, comments that the AFDC program was created to provide financial assistance to families had low or no income, it also “offered poor families extensive rights, with few requirements and no time limits”. On the other hand, the TANF program was also created to provide cash assistance to indigent families with dependent children, with the only differences that the TANF program “created time limits and work rules, capped federal spending and allowed states to turn poor families away”. The article “Poverty” by Charles Murray, discusses that those programs mission were to put more money in the hands of poor people, therefore, reduce poverty. But the true is that the more money the government spends on poverty, the more poverty goes up. Murray also noted that even when poverty had decreased among the whole population, it continued to drop among …show more content…
“The jobless rate among black males has increased sharply since 1969 in the large central cities of the Northeast and Midwest,” affirms William Julius Wilson in the article, “The Truly Disadvantage: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy.” Even when blacks find jobs, racial discrimination is visible because they don’t have the equal opportunity to succeed within the area they are in, as whites do. Racial discrimination has created a segment of labor market where whites are more likely to be promoted and
Before the Civil Rights Act passed in the 1960s, segregation was …show more content…
These programs are “Aid to Families with Dependent Children” and “Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.” In the article “Welfare Limits Left Poor Adrift as Recession Hit”, the author, Jason DeParle, comments that the AFDC program was created to provide financial assistance to families had low or no income, it also “offered poor families extensive rights, with few requirements and no time limits”. On the other hand, the TANF program was also created to provide cash assistance to indigent families with dependent children, with the only differences that the TANF program “created time limits and work rules, capped federal spending and allowed states to turn poor families away”. The article “Poverty” by Charles Murray, discusses that those programs mission were to put more money in the hands of poor people, therefore, reduce poverty. But the true is that the more money the government spends on poverty, the more poverty goes up. Murray also noted that even when poverty had decreased among the whole population, it continued to drop among …show more content…
“The jobless rate among black males has increased sharply since 1969 in the large central cities of the Northeast and Midwest,” affirms William Julius Wilson in the article, “The Truly Disadvantage: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy.” Even when blacks find jobs, racial discrimination is visible because they don’t have the equal opportunity to succeed within the area they are in, as whites do. Racial discrimination has created a segment of labor market where whites are more likely to be promoted and