The solution is universal pre-k, socialized medicine, and massive federal investment in K-12 schooling. By the time you've reached the justice system, it's too late.
Only 3 countries in the world spend more per pupil than the US: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Education/Sp...
Furthermore, racial differences in per-pupil funding are negligible, with Black and Latinx funding slightly exceeding White:
on average, both Black and Latinx total per pupil expenditures exceed White total per pupil expenditures by $229.53 and $126.15, respectively - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584198724...
Anyway, we should be 1st. Not 4th. We're the richest country.
Blacks are underrepresented among the rich, so if rich private school spending was relatively significant, one would expect the Black per-pupil spending to be the lowest, not the highest.
Throwing more money at a problem is very rarely the best solution.
[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
Because we aren't spending enough on K-12 education already? Throwing good money after bad is terrible policy.
(Medicine has lots of issues too, but it's an entirely separate issue from criminal justice.)
At the federal level? Not really. The Department of Education is something like less than 1% of the federal budget.
Furthermore the problem comes down to how schools are actually funded. In the US, it's almost entirely through local property taxes. Which means that racial and socioeconomic segregation cause children to be doomed to an underfunded school district, perpetuating the cycle.
Some schools do. White schools. Take a look at any high school in the south side of Chicago and tell me they are doing just fine.
https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...
You can see in the inflation-adjusted graph it has been flat except for after Covid.
If you aren’t getting the result you want, you will have to increase inflation-adjusted spending to see a change.
> In the United States, education spending falls short of benchmarks set by international organizations such as UNESCO, of which the U.S. is a member. The nation puts 11.6% of public funding toward education, well below the international standard 15.00%.
Spending night be misallocated but a bigger budget won’t do anything by itself. There are no big, obvious wins out there.
https://www.cato.org/blog/addressing-critics-purportedly-no-...
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
>In August 1971, Nixon severed the direct convertibility of U.S. dollars into gold.