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Black Women, Equal Pay & The divide with white rural America
This is from June 2016:
http://www.theroot.com/black-women-now-the-most-educated-group-in-us-1790855540
A new report confirms that black women are now the most educated group in the United States. But we still have a long way to go for pay equity.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, between 2009 and 2010, black women earned 68 percent of all associate degrees awarded to black students, as well as 66 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 71 percent of master’s degrees and 65 percent of all doctorates awarded to black students.
The report also says that the percentage of U.S. college students who are black increased from 10 to 15 percent from 1976 to 2012, while the percentage of white students among all U.S. college students fell from 84 to 60 percent.
By both race and gender, a higher percentage of black women (9.7 percent) are enrolled in college than any other group, topping Asian women (8.7 percent), white women (7.1 percent) and white men (6.1 percent).
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, between 2009 and 2010, black women earned 68 percent of all associate degrees awarded to black students, as well as 66 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 71 percent of master’s degrees and 65 percent of all doctorates awarded to black students.
The report also says that the percentage of U.S. college students who are black increased from 10 to 15 percent from 1976 to 2012, while the percentage of white students among all U.S. college students fell from 84 to 60 percent.
By both race and gender, a higher percentage of black women (9.7 percent) are enrolled in college than any other group, topping Asian women (8.7 percent), white women (7.1 percent) and white men (6.1 percent).
If you Google search the words of the subject - it seems only the
The Daily Caller disagreed last year.
Now check this Politico Editorial posted by Skidmore today:
Skidmores post
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029360663
My Fellow Plutocrats you can cure Trumpism:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/18/to-my-fellow-plutocrats-you-can-cure-trumpism-215347
In my circles, few seem to want to confront the reality that our political environment won’t improve until the actual economic circumstances of our fellow Americans improve. We rich folks crave the variety and stimulation of progressive blue cities, yet we’re often not willing to fight for basic progressive policies like higher wages and the right to organize. We pound the table, ranting about diversity and inclusion without recognizing that the 43.7 percent of Americans earning less than $15 an hour, mostly white and rural, simply cannot afford to be included in our pricey, progressive, pluralistic enclaves. We smugly #resist when an airline beats a passenger bloody, but we do so from the safety and comfort of our own private planes, literally looking down on the shuttered factories and struggling small towns of middle America as we luxuriously jet from coast to coast.
Time and again in online circles we debate diversity/equality vs financial equality. I don't see this happening in my IRL activism groups - just in these no so great debates in the virtual world.
With the laser sharp focus in some branches of the Center to Left we keep hearing/reading about that 43.7%.
Can we ask the question - What's in it for black women who still earn far less than her educated white male peers to raise more white male boats?
Is anyone in those "lost areas" of America at DU in real life having this discussion at the precinct or state Assembly level?
Part of why I move onto the next post when I see the pleas for economic equality above all else and the $15 minimum wage for all is that I don't see the job loss and lack of a living wage in my area and in my circles.
I do know black female MBA holders who know they are making considerably less than their white male and female counterparts in spite of tough salary negotiations. At an assembly 2017 NJ meeting yesterday morning it became clear that candidates tapping into Phil Murphy's paycheck fairness to women are gaining ground this year.
The former Goldman Sachs millionaire that worked for Obama is killing it among black women in NJ at all socio-economic levels.
I truly believe that any discussion about "we and 50 state strategy" must take into account local concerns. And before any accusations of "so you got yours and to hell with them" . . .
Go back to the first link. If a highly educated black woman in NJ making $20 an hour (with student loans) has to compete with a worker in Michigan who gets free training to work for $15 an hour - who wins and who loses? The manufacturing jobs are not coming back.
I would caution - the message cannot be national but the conduit to delivering it (campaign funds) can be. The message to a young A/P analyst with a Masters from Rutgers must not be the same as the one to a 40 something white male in the Rust Belt.
We will fail in 2018 if we attempt it.
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