{"id":1169,"date":"2007-01-31T09:53:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T17:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2007-01-31T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T17:56:55","slug":"1169","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/01\/31\/1169\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin Tone and Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_01_31_hersch.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_01_31_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/a123.g.akamai.net\/f\/123\/12465\/1d\/media.canada.com\/canwest\/112\/immigrants01272007.jpg?size=l\" alt=\"\" \/><em>GUEST: Dr. Joni Hersch, Professor of Law and Economics, Vanderbilt University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We will start today by examing one of the tenants that supports the  the American myth of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153meritocracy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to Thomas Shapiro of Brandeis university,  the wealth gap in the US is not just a story of merit and achievement, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also a story of the historical legacy of race in the United States. In the case of the immigrant American, this legacy is futher complicated by status of immigration, educational level and according to a new Vanderbilt study, &#8220;Skin Tone.&#8221; Professor Joni Hersch, a law and economics professor at Vanderbilt University, looked at a government survey of 2,084 legal immigrants to the United States from around the world and found that those with the lightest skin earned an average of 8 percent to 15 percent more than similar immigrants with much darker skin.  <\/p>\n<p>The report is available online as of February 19th at <a href=\"http:\/\/law.vanderbilt.edu\/faculty\/faculty-detail\/index.aspx?faculty_id=173\">http:\/\/law.vanderbilt.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Dr. Joni Hersch, Professor of Law and Economics, Vanderbilt University We will start today by examing one of the tenants that supports the the American myth of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153meritocracy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to Thomas Shapiro of Brandeis university, the wealth gap in the US is not just a story of merit and achievement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}