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    When most people think about the wealth between white people and people of color, they would first think of the pay. Depending on their job, they are paid in different wages. But it's not just dependent on their job, it is also by their gender. People seem to forget that the system wasn't made to appeal to the likes of people of color. Black people specifically were given many disadvantages like little to none job opportunities, worse schooling systems, lower income residential area, etc. In the Adam Ruins Everything video titled, "The Disturbing History of the Suburbs", Adam says the red area which was essentially the African Americans/Black People (CollegeHumor, 2017) "had far less ability to build wealth and many remain trapped in poverty". While white people were given a chance to accumulate their wealth and afford to take their children to high and prestige schools the people of color had a harder time without wealth to move into the better areas and even when things were desegregated, people of color couldn't move when they had the chance. Since schools were heavily funded by taxes from citizens. If you have higher taxes, you're guaranteed to have your child in a school with good school that's well-equipped meanwhile, lower income areas would not have the same. 
    Wealth inequality comes with a lot of issues that contribute to it for example, the mass incarceration on families. Families are highly impacted by incarcerations. If a person has been incarcerated before, they are easily be discriminated against and won't be given a job opportunity likely due to their past. In the HDFS 280 L14 - 13th Discussion, states it has "Skyrocketing rates of unemployment due to employer discrimination, which translates into higher rates of poverty," (L14, 8). It's inequality because someone who is working without being in incarcerated before likely is working with the same reason as someone who has. Some solutions to decreasing inequality is to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans while not doing the same for the lower income Americans in order to address the economic inequality. There's also another solution which is to raise the minimum wage as it doesn't hurt the employment but then again we still have a system that is discriminatory towards people of color and those individuals who has a bad past. 


CollegeHumor. The Disturbing History of the Suburbs. YouTube, YouTube, 4 Oct. 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETR9qrVS17g. Accessed 5 Mar. 2022.  

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