Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for Rural Family Economic Success

Collecting and analyzing data to determine if discrimination is occurring is a critical first step toward disparities reduction because it makes concrete what the issues are. As a result, dialogue about race can be action-focused.

Some propose a national report card on racial and ethnic discrimination to, among other goals, assess the extent to which discrimination undermines the achievement of important social policy objectives like welfare reform and asset accumulation for low-income minorities.