Black-White Gap in Wages is Growing:  Happy MLK Day

Notice the widening of the gap and wage stagnation since 2000

 Click here for the source of this graph, taken from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's publication in September 2017 of Mary C. Daly, Bart Hobijn, and Joseph H. Pedtk, Disappointing Facts About the Black-White Wage Gap.  After 40 years of affirmative action, the gap is still not closing, but is getting worse.  In this publication the authors show the gap while not as wide, for women, is also increasing, not decreasing.  So much for the effectiveness of affirmative action as government policy.