05-18-2016, 11:38 AM
(05-18-2016, 05:33 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:(05-17-2016, 03:50 PM)Emman85 Wrote: I don't know how engage this "wage gap" discussion, as a black male my race/gender group has a lower median income compared to white women and asian women, Latino men have it even worse, they only make around 61 cents to the dollar. Latino and black men's lower wages is rarely if ever brought up in the wage gap discussions, also if race is brought up they compare different racial groups of women's incomes to a white man's dollar but asian men have the highest income and asian women will soon be catching up with white men.
Quote:First let me state, if you don't know already I too am a black male. There really isn't a racial wage gap either. Like with women, if a business can save X% on wages by hiring a black or Latino they will do so. No economist of any note takes any of the wage gap arguments seriously because it is based on false statistics.
Second, a great deal of the problem with the wages that Blacks and Latinos earn have to do with education, principly the lack of it. Generally speaking persons with degrees or skills earn more than those without degrees or skills. A large proportion of blacks and latinos have no degree and are unskilled. As such the best way to raise the median wages of both groups is to increase the proportion of persons who do have degrees and do have skills.
I agree with everything you said, I don't believe the wage differences(with either minorities or women) are a matter of unequal pay for equal work, I think feminists have a political agenda at stake in the wage gap narrative even if it means spreading dubious propaganda.