Sentence examples for racial costs from inspiring English sources

"Mass incarceration," he writes, "is one of the biggest social problems the United States faces today; our sprawling prison system imposes staggering economic, social, political, and racial costs".

"Obama's Missed Landslide: A Racial Cost?." PS: Political Science and Politics 43.1 (2010): 69.

Signing the bill, Maryland's Governor O'Malley said the death penalty does not deter crime, cannot be administered without racial bias, costs three times as much as life without parole, and a mistake cannot be reversed if an innocent person is put to death.

Racial conflict cost him that job, too.

If my results are correct, racial animus cost Mr. Obama many more votes than we may have realized.

In Prince George's County, which is two-thirds blacks, racial conflict cost the center a new headquarters.

Add up the totals throughout the country, and racial animus cost Mr. Obama three to five percentage points of the popular vote.

All the news isn't bad for Duane (Dog) Chapman, whose use of a racial slur cost him his popular A & E reality show, "Dog the Bounty Hunter".

This year, Urban Outfitters sold a "vintage" Kent State sweatshirt tastefully splattered with red paint while Donald Sterling's racial comments cost him his NBA franchise.

A prominent science journal held a competition in 1911 (with a considerable cash prize) for the best essay on the topic, "What do the bad racial elements cost the state and society?" [ 40].

If your yardsticks include levels of poverty, unemployment, racial inequality, housing costs and black neighbourhoods being returned to pre-storm conditions … not so much.