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[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/wage-gap-black-white-americans by Molly Redden 20/9/16 The Guardian] | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/wage-gap-black-white-americans by Molly Redden 20/9/16 The Guardian] | ||
Black Americans today earn even less relative to their white counterparts than they did in 1979, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). | Black Americans today earn even less relative to their white counterparts than they did in 1979, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). | ||
=====Our Inequality: An Introduction===== | |||
[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/our-inequality-an-introduction/ by Colin Gordon 20/9/16 The Guardian] | |||
The dimensions of that inequality are both familiar and depressing. A smaller share of national income is flowing to wages and earnings, and—more important—inequality within that labor share is widening. As a result, wage growth has flatlined for a generation [click here for interactive graphic]. Middle-income workers make no more now than they did in the late 1970s; those in the lower wage cohort have lost ground over that span. | |||
