Elite Power Theory: The Land Of Education And Education In The United States
In the late 1800s to this present day, immigrants in many parts of the world leave their home country and migrate to the United States. These immigrants flee wars, job shortages, rising taxes, etc.; and came to America since it is perceived as the land of economic opportunities. Immigrants have dealt with dictatorship, death, and no freedom to live how they want to live till they arrived in America, to the land of the free and many dreams. Immigrants had expectation of no struggle or living the American dream, just to realize that there was also struggle in their new found home. So why are so many Americans suffering in the land of opportunity? The 2012 Census shows that poverty levels have remained persistently high at 15 percent. That nearly
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241). The provisions of the civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. Do all companies follow this amendment? It might depend on whom you may ask. Americans might argue that the employment gap is due to education; but the question who is/are educating American children should be in question. The blame will not be accepted by any group; the city, state, nor federal want to take this blame. A great chunk of African Americans failure is due to the system(s) failure because everything is intertwined. Therefore, Elite Power Theory fits the Systematic Failure, since it’s built on the idea that a handful of people control the policies that govern all society (Segal, 2016). I strongly believe that there are policies that are keeping the poor people in the poverty and the affluence rising. For example, low income/poor Americans who receive assistance from the federal government have to make a certain amount of money or have to be unemployed to get the assistant. However, as soon as they start making extra money such as an extra one hundred over the required amount their assistant would get reduced. An extra one hundred dollars does not change the circumstances of the low income person. They are still dealing with the same struggles as they were before the one hundred dollars, but now they have lost their government aid because they made and extra one hundred dollars over the limit. How do we expect people to better their conditions if they are scared to lose their aid if they worked one hour
241). The provisions of the civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. Do all companies follow this amendment? It might depend on whom you may ask. Americans might argue that the employment gap is due to education; but the question who is/are educating American children should be in question. The blame will not be accepted by any group; the city, state, nor federal want to take this blame. A great chunk of African Americans failure is due to the system(s) failure because everything is intertwined. Therefore, Elite Power Theory fits the Systematic Failure, since it’s built on the idea that a handful of people control the policies that govern all society (Segal, 2016). I strongly believe that there are policies that are keeping the poor people in the poverty and the affluence rising. For example, low income/poor Americans who receive assistance from the federal government have to make a certain amount of money or have to be unemployed to get the assistant. However, as soon as they start making extra money such as an extra one hundred over the required amount their assistant would get reduced. An extra one hundred dollars does not change the circumstances of the low income person. They are still dealing with the same struggles as they were before the one hundred dollars, but now they have lost their government aid because they made and extra one hundred dollars over the limit. How do we expect people to better their conditions if they are scared to lose their aid if they worked one hour