The History of the U.S. White-Black Wage Gap from 1969 to Now

The History of the U.S. White-Black Wage Gap from 1969 to Now

By William M. Rodgers III | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis For decades, researchers have performed quantitative studies that describe and explain the white-Black wage gap.1 Three questions are among those that dominate this voluminous body of research: How much does widespread economic growth lead to a narrowing of the wage gap? How much of […]