Wage Gap Thesis

Over the past five years in America the annual earnings of African Americans has shown a difference in comparison with other ethnic groups.The gap in the wages in America proves to be a need for employment opportunities, economic disparities, and stagnant income.Employment opportunities in most African American communities are scarce which contributes largely to the wage gap. The annual household income for African americans exhibits the economic imbalances as other races have higher earnings.There are many reasons contributing to this ongoing wage gap, the stagnant income plays a major role as to why there’s been any significant change.
As this issue persists there must be an improvement in the difference of earnings in America.This continuous
The goal of this study is to display the disparities that minorities face with living wages,examine the difference in earnings in America between all races, and determine if raise in wages would close the gap in America.

Significance of Study
This study will be undertaken to find out the racial minimum wage gap and overall wage gap of different racial groups, specifically African Americans and to measure its change against the behaviors of legislation.
Research Question/Hypothesis
What is the effect of the wage gap on African Americans and other racial groups in America? If there is an increase in minimum wages, then African Americans would benefit from better quality of living.If there is an improvement in job opportunities in African American communities, then there would be shrink in the wage gap in America.
Literature
Stagnant earnings persist to be an ongoing matter concerning African Americans in comparison to other ethnic groups in America.With regards to family earnings and wealth, the differences in the income of blacks and whites has extended.The holes in wages are generally the same as they were four decades prior.Raising the minimum wage is one of the best tools possible to lift incomes and giving spending power to stimulate the economy .The minimum wage is a mechanism for combating inequality, which is implied in the name of the Fair Labor Standards Act,which was created to help ensure that all work would be fairly rewarded.This act also guaranteed that regular employment would provide a decent quality of life and regular increases in earnings to ensure that even the lowest-paid workers benefit from broader improvements in wages and living standards (Cooper,2015).However, today with few adjustments made the federal minimum wage no longer distributes an adequate minimum for workers.This had led to the exact opposite of the FLSA which therefore has led to many workers having nowhere near decent quality of life.When the federal minimum wage of $7.25 was raised in 2014 it was nearly 10 percent less than when it was last raised in 2009, after modifying for inflation.As indicated by David Cooper EPI, an endeavor to better this issue is to raise the lowest pay permitted by law up,also would give adequate living wages to African Americans.The effects of this decline in increase has