This research aims to understand the reasons minorities, especially in harsh economic climates, have trouble garnering employment when compared with those in the dominant sector of society. The findings will demonstrate that the main causal reason for this disparity is structural inequalities brought on by inheritance, in other words the station one is born into is the predominant factor in predicting their financial outcomes. This research will demonstrate that merit has little to do with results; the research will demonstrate that the “best qualified” is often not the candidate with the most desert nor does their hiring necessarily lead to the best outcomes for society.
The problem with American society is the plague of meritocracy; the ideology that all success within a society is brought about best by those with the most merit receiving the best outcomes; the idea that choice and hard work are the main factors in ones financial success. This research will prove these statements, these concepts are simply hegemonic illusion, which assists in maintaining the power of the wealthy and oppresses the poor, the minorities into further ruin.
Analysis of proposed solutions within this investigation will establish that only radical reformation of the way we allocate employment in society can bring about a resolution to the problem. The government must step in and redistribute labor so that the poor and minorities have more opportunities at obtaining employment and obtaining higher paying labor. This will show that tapping into this labor, raising minorities and poor into higher paying jobs will, in fact, increase overall productivity in our economy.
