The story that blacks are lazy, that they do not work as hard as whitesâwhich is used to explain the high rate of poverty in that groupâhas once again proved to be false. This time it's by two researchers, Valerie Wilson and Janelle Jones, at the Economic Policy Institute. Their key finding: "...[T]he average black worker worked 1,805 hours in 2015, an increase of 199 hours, or 12.4 percent from the 1979 work year of 1,606 hours."
Furthermore, it is low-wage workers who are working more. Also, all races in the US are just working more. This means poverty is not a consequence of laziness, which is what the ruling ideology maintains. When the facts are exposed, we find that the poor are poor not because they do not work as hard as the rich. Weak work ethic doesn't explain American poverty. Which makes you wonder why we are working so much in the first place. We live in a time when we should be enjoying or figuring out what to do with our free time. But it's still too expensive. You can only have free time if you work your pants off.
