Ironically, the Minimum Wage Act of 1938 was installed for the very reason of creating more jobs. And it succeeded. Giving working families more buying power will increase the demand for goods and services, thus providing more jobs. Most of America's racial profiling, discriminatory law enforcement and inequitable incarceration occur pursuant to the nation's drug war, which is historically rooted in racial and cultural bigotry. The root problem is not so much that drug laws are inequitably applied, but that these laws are so immorally severe that, in our racist society, they are applied mostly to scapegoats.
Severity begets inequity.
Young black and Latino men have served as scapegoats of the antidrug hay-making of politicians of both parties. Racial profiling can't be fixed until the drug war is replaced with a more benign approach to drug control.