As employers in the U.S. tackle issues around racism, attention is also being given to the racial wage gap and why black men and women, in particular, still earn substantially less than their white counterparts. Nearly 56 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, "we find equal pay for equal work is still not a reality." One of the popular discussions is how to reduce the black–white wage gap. Black-white wage gaps are large and have gotten worse in the last 20 years. Even when the Black unemployment rates improve, the black-white wage gap has continued to widen over the past 20 years. For many of us we think that getting an education will help to reduce the wage gap. But statistics show that Black workers can’t simply educate their way out of the gap. Across various levels of education, a significant black–white wage gap remains. Even black workers with an advanced degree experience a significant wage gap compared with their white counterparts.
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