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Systemic Racism Costs Black Women $50 Billion Annually in Wage Penalties

By NewBlackVoices on June 11, 2024 Features

By Sunita Sohrabi | Ethnic Media Services NEW YORK — Over a lifetime, Black women lose an estimated $1 million in wages because of racial discrimination in employer hiring and wage practices, says labor economist Michelle Holder. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Black women earn 73 cents for every dollar a […]

White-Sounding Names Get Called Back For Jobs More Than Black Ones, A New Study Finds

By NewBlackVoices on April 11, 2024 Features

By Joe Hernandez | NPR Twenty years ago, two economists responded to a slew of help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers using a set of fictitious names to test for racial bias in the job market. The watershed study found that applicants with names suggesting they were white got 50% more callbacks from employers than those […]