The first example of the Social Conflict Perspective used in this article, is classic Karl Marx, in that Wessel states that “Americans keep electing politicians who argue that lifting the minimum wage or requiring employers to offer health insurance would do unacceptably large damage to economic …show more content…
Wessel quoted a statistic from American University economist, Tom Hertz, which compared the number of whites to the number of blacks “born to the bottom 10% of families ranked by income, and remained there as adults.” Only “17% of whites” remained at the bottom, compared to “42% of blacks.” This statistic speaks directly to the difficulties African-Americans have had trying to improve their class/status from one generation to the next in the United States. Since this data only represents the last 32 years, and 6,300 families in Michigan, one wonders what the national statistics would look