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Black Wages Lag Despite US Economic Growth

thenorthstar
Apr 22, 2019
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A new study found that Black workers have received smaller pay increases in the past few years compared to other racial groups. A Wall Street Journal analysis of the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics data found that the inflation-adjusted median weekly earnings rose 5.3 percent in the first quarter of 2019 for all US workers, compared to …

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