MLK's Dream - Income

The income of all American people has increased greatly. The gap between African American incomes and other incomes has been decreased. The people who live in poverty have also decreased after the major increase in the early 1990s. For the money income of families, the gap between African Americans and Caucasians have decreased overtime. In 1980, 28.4% of the people that earned less than 15,000 dollars were African Americans. In 2003 that number decreased to 21.5%. Also for people who earn more than 100,000 dollars, 2.2% of them were African Americans. In 2003, that number increased to 8.7%. There is much improvement in the field of income.

Complete equality has still not been achieved in the United States. Asians and Pacific Islanders, earn the most money by far. There is still a large gap between the income of whites and blacks. 20.7% of whites earn more than 100,000 dollars while only 8.7% of African Americans earn that much. The median income for whites in 2003 was 45,631 dollars. The median income for blacks in 2003 was 29,645. That is a humongous gap. There is still much improvement needed to close this sizable gap.

There are many ways to close this gap. First of all, we should encourage African Americans and other minorities to find jobs. We could make more jobs offers in the newspaper or advertise more on the internet. Also we could be more equal in employing people. In America, people are still selective in who they choose to work for them. If we could change this, I'm sure that the gap would be closed by a lot. Also, we could get much more education for the minorities. Many of these people just don't have the right education. We could provide them with free schools. There is still a long way to go for complete equality.