come inequality has been a long-term issue in the United States but more recently an article came out about how racial economic inequality benefits the richest 1%. Americans are consistently struggling when it comes down to African Americans and Caucasians and the inequality between the two is baffling, not only in income, but all aspects of life.

The inequality is no surprise as it has been this way for decades with little to no progress. One study showed that, “Black and Hispanic men, for their part, have made no progress in narrowing the wage gap with white men since 1980, in part because there have been no improvements in the hourly earnings of white, black or Hispanic men over this 35-year period. As a result, black men earned the same 73% share of white men’s hourly earnings in 1980 as they did in 2015, and Hispanic men earned 69% of white men’s earnings in 2015 compared with 71% in 1980.” This show there is a huge income gap between Caucasian and African Americans making it harder for African Americans to succeed with this income inequality. It is hard to break this cycle due to the difference between races. “…the 1% are profiting off ongoing racia