cover image: Black-white wage gaps expand with rising wage inequality

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Black-white wage gaps expand with rising wage inequality

What this report finds: Black-white wage gaps are larger today than they were in 1979, but the increase has not occurred along a straight line. During the early 1980s, rising unemployment, declining unionization, and policies such as the failure to raise the minimum wage and lax enforcement of anti-discrimination laws contributed to the growing black-white

Authors

Valerie Wilson, William M. Rodgers III

Published in
Bulgaria