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= Article Evaluation: Racial Wage Gap in the United States =

Evaluating Content
The Content in the page is concise and stays on topic throughout, however at times, such as when presenting the theories for Globalization and the Occupational Distribution, the most recent data presented dates back to 1998, which is horribly outdated for an issue of equality. However, the article does present interesting facts that may not be college knowledge, such as the ratio between white and black interviewees who have the same experience on who receives a job offer, sitting at 3:1.

Evaluating tone
At some times, such as in introducing possible factors for the wage gap, the article seems a bit too sure of its own statements, when such issues can be debated and discussed for hours. However, all the points are given equal shine in comparison to the amount of data available about each proposal. However, the article can be considered biased and slanted to push current political views.

Evaluating Sources
The links and citations seem to all be in order, and every source in one way or another backs up the point. Most of the sources come from respected scientific sources, or independent surveys, whose numbers support the point in a variety of ways. None of the source are biased

Checking the Talk Page
The topics presented in the talk page range from GA reviews where they make suggestions for deeper insight, or flat out point out mistakes and edit themselves. The conversation is not a real discussion on the issue such as we have in class, however those themselves also reside in the talk page further down, where you can find straight attacks on the tone of the article and the views they present. However, this article is highly rated and apart of four different WikiProjects, including Sociology, Discrimination, Economics, and the United States.

= Article Addition: Racial Wage Gap =

History
The documented history of the Racial Wage Gap in the United States goes back before the Civil Rights Act, where many modern causes of racial wage inequity, such as educational disparities, discrimination, and stem from were even more prevalent. Public state records from the 1930s indicate white owned schools in the south spent approximately $61 dollars per student, or $1,074.14 in 2018 dollars when adjusted for inflation, compared to just $9 per student, or $158.48 in 2018 dollars. Simultaneously, the same schools saw a discrepancy in school time, with white schools in sessions for 156 days on average, compared to 123 days on average for black schools.

However, aside from statistics of wage discrepancy between black individuals and their white counterparts, much is still unknown of wage inequity due to a lack of literature with solid empirical data to link data with an accurate model of wage discrimination. Subject to debate during the 1970s and 80s in the scholarly community was the link between geographical location and wage inequality. Following urban-dominated studies and shifting research based on evolved conceptual and study driven thinking, sociologists determined that the racial composition of a local population means for a key element in racial wage inequality. Among other factors, studies performed by Leslie Mcall indicate immigration population density as one of the leading factors in racial wage inequality. While black immigrant earnings do not deviate from the already substandard average earnings, numbers on Hispanic and Asian immigrant earnings suggest more extensive negative effects, especially in areas of high immigration density. Hispanic and Asian women, in particular, are shown to be most affected; Hispanic and Asian women are shown to fill less skilled, domestic service jobs where the concentration of their black and white counterparts are lower. Such barriers such as language show that such large dominance of immigrant population in such sectors only breed competition between lower-earning groups, further lowering average wages for such families. Since 1980, studies have found that, conversely, such low earning labor may actually boost the economy as a whole, keeping many corporations and higher level jobs afloat with cheap skilled work, boosting the salaries of native born hispanics and whites alike.

Historically, there have been links in the discrepancies between not only earnings from labor, but in the benefits received voluntarily from employers as well. Benefits include health care, pensions, holiday and vacation days, among other government mandated and voluntary benefits. Studies done by Tali Kristal and Yinon Cohen show the link between such wage inequality and benefits received, with empirical evidence showing a steady degradation of benefits received for those of different ethnic groups. As of 2015, 32% of workers received benefits - including both mandatory and voluntary - from their employers, up from 28% in 1980. As of 2015, 44% of white employees received pension benefits, compared 36% for blacks and 28% for Hispanic employees. Health care showed similar trends, as the 2015 health coverage rates for white, black, and hispanic employees sit at 60%, 55%, and 46%, respectively.