Racial Economic Inequality
This term refers to differences in income, wealth, and financial opportunities between racial groups
What is racial economic inequality
These laws divide land into districts such as residential, commercial, and industrial.
What are zoning regulations?
Women in the U.S. earn about this many cents for every dollar earned by men.
What is 82 cents?
Michael Blim explains that economic growth can reduce this, but it does not always decrease inequality.
What is poverty?
This form of discrimination prevented many Black families from buying homes in certain neighborhoods.
What is housing discrimination?
This targeted rezoning benefits a single property owner by changing zoning rules for only one small area.
What is spot zoning?
According to the Pew Research Center, half of U.S. adults say this employer-related factor is a major reason for unequal pay.
What is women being treated differently by employers?
This Indian state has stronger social programs and much higher literacy rates than Karnataka.
What is Kerala?
This is one of the main ways families build wealth in America, but unequal access to it created long-term racial financial gaps.
What is homeownership?
This form of zoning uses things like large lot sizes or bans on multi-family housing to keep lower-income families out.
What is exclusionary zoning?
Lower promotion rates, caregiving breaks, and biased pay practices create this long-term financial outcome for women.
What is reduced lifetime earnings?
This metaphor compares society to an object with steps that are too far apart when inequality is high.
What is a ladder?