Tiger1
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The authors of the report — Valerie Wilson, director of EPI's program on race, ethnicity and the economy, and William Rodgers III — calculate how different factors have contributed to these changes.
Among early-career men, for instance, the earnings disparities between white and black workers have widened by about 3 percent since 1979. These disparities would have been even wider had African Americans not made gains in college attainment during this time. But that educational progress was overshadowed, the researchers say, by two major forces: increasing discrimination and increasing income inequality.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ho-do-everything-right-still-get-left-behind/
Among early-career men, for instance, the earnings disparities between white and black workers have widened by about 3 percent since 1979. These disparities would have been even wider had African Americans not made gains in college attainment during this time. But that educational progress was overshadowed, the researchers say, by two major forces: increasing discrimination and increasing income inequality.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ho-do-everything-right-still-get-left-behind/
