Summary:
In 2017, the US economy paid out $16.4 trillion in personal income. Latina women earn 62% what white men earn, (three not four fifth) meaning they would need a more than 61% increase to reach equality. Latinos make up 16.8% of the labor force. Workers, regardless of race, earn 37% less in Colombus, Georgia than in San Francisco, California.
Racial inequality disproportionately affects the poor. In 2007, low-income white families had 9.7 times greater net worth than black families. Middle income white families had 3 times the networth of middle income black families. In Boston, the median net worth for white families is near $250,000 vs. only $8 for blacks. Yet the average black billionaire has about as much as the average billionaire, and the average black American billionaire has about 3/4 of the average billionaire. On the sexual harrassment side, the Times Up legal fund found that 60% of its applicants were low income. In other words, the discriminatory pay inequality is consciously planned to divide the poor, while the rich benefit from inclusion and leveling across groups. The problem is not discrimination per se, or human nature, the problem is the discriminatory policy, proven to exist by historical scholarship as well, used to divide the working class.
A 20% transfer of personal income, on a national scale, from high-income white men to low-income geographical region white men and other lower-income groups, victims of discrimination, would amount to $3.28 trillion a year. The EEOC transfered only $70 million in the last year. An increase of about 50,000 times the current rate is necessary to bring about equal pay.
This cannot be accomplished within the EEOC framework. Local autonomy must be expanded many times over through the formation of Workplace Equality Committees in every workplace, charged with insuring discrimination against workers is ended.
Evidence and Works Cited:
“In the last year, the federal agency filed 66 harassment lawsuits, including 41 that included allegations of sexual harassment — a more than 50 percent increase over the previous year. In the same period, the EEOC recovered nearly $70 million for victims of sexual harassment, up from $47.5 million in 2017.“
“…Time’s Up initiative and legal defense fund.
“The fund has already reached about $22 million, and more than 3,500 individuals — 98 percent of them women — have reached out for legal representation and assistance, according to Martin at the National Women’s Law Center, which administers the fund.
“About 60 percent of the individuals identify as low-income, demonstrating that while sexual misconduct is an “every-industry problem, the problem of harassment and assault falls particularly heavily on those in low-wage jobs,” where the imbalance of power is greater, she said.”
“Personal income increased to about 16.4 trillion U.S. dollars in 2017.”
https://www.statista.com/statistics/216756/us-personal-income/
https://iwpr.org/publications/gender-wage-gap-2017-race-ethnicity/
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https://www.imercer.com/content/article/us-geographic-salary-differential-tool.aspx
“The household median net worth was $247,500 for whites; $8 for US blacks (the lowest of all five cities); $12,000 for Caribbean blacks; $3,020 for Puerto Ricans; and $0 for Dominicans (that’s not a typo either.)”
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