Eunice Herrera, 518 words

The article Do racial inequities in infant mortality correspond to variations in societal conditions? by Siddiqi et al., analyzes whether racial injustices coincide with infant mortality by looking at infant mortality rates of a state each year, that of which were measured by looking at how many infants died out of 1000 births. Because Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming had a low number of infant deaths, they were not considered for this study. Rates of infant deaths were collected from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wonder. This study also looked at statistics income inequality which was collected from Income Statistics Branch of the U.S. Census Bureau. This study focuses specifically on the years 1992-2007. To test their hypothesis, income, poverty, high school graduation, and unemployment rates were analyzed and compared among whites (includes white Hispanic) and blacks (includes black Hispanic). The mean for white infant mortality rate was  6.14 and the black infant mortality rate 14.90 which is a notably big difference. n their research, they found that income inequalities did not result in low IMR. However, they did see lower IMR from the lagged income inequalities. 

The Racial Prejudice and Spending on Drug Rehabilitation examine if prejudice attitudes effect views on the amount of money spent on drug rehabilitation. The statistics used for this study were collected from the General Social Survey where 846 people participated in the questionnaire. This article discusses how drug rehabilitation is color coded as are other things like cultural characteristics. For example, many people believe blacks are lazy and prefer to live off government aid. This is why this article measure prejudice and how it affects support for drug rehabilitation. Views on spending for drug rehabilitation is the dependent variable and the independent variables focus on views about blacks and Latinos. This study used four methods to look at negative views towards blacks and Latinos where the respondents were asked certain questions like if they would accept to live in a community with a certain race.  Sex, income, employment, marriage, political group and whether the respondent lived in the South or in an urban area were used as control measures. The results were that 62% of those interviewed  believed that not enough is spent on drug rehabilitation and 38% believed just the right amount was spent. Looking as measures of prejudice, 55% do not agree with a member of the family marrying a black person. Forty percent do not like living in an area with blacks or Latinos. Both races were thought of as having lower motivation to work and not as smart compared to white people. The group that was against living with and marrying blacks or Latinos and had unfavorable views of them, tended to be more supportive about spending for drug rehabilitation. People that were educated, in contrast to those that had children or were conservative, were not as prejudice. White participants that believe the cause of racial inequalities are because there is less availability for blacks to get an education, believed that not enough was spent on drug rehabilitation.