How Small Inequities Lead To Big Inequalities
“Compared to white Americans, African-Americans earn about 25 percent less and are twice as likely to develop dementia. Compared to American men who work full time, the average American woman who works full time earns only 80 percent as much; for Latina women that number is 54 percent. These statistics merely hint at the widespread inequalities in American today; inequalities based on race, sex, and ethnicity, among others. How do these inequalities arise and persist?”