The Unequal Race for Good Jobs: How Whites Made Outsized Gains in Education and Good Jobs Compared to Blacks and Latinos
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Carnevale, Anthony
Strohl, Jeff
Gulish, Artem
Van Der Werf, Martin
Peltier Campbell, Kathryn
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The American job machine has performed well over the past 25 years. Between 1991 and 2016, employment among White, Black, and Latino workers grew by 20 percent, while employment in good jobs soared by 35 percent. Yet the opportunities and benefits of the modern economy have not accrued evenly across the three groups. Discrimination and a history of racial injustice in this country have led to Whites gaining a disproportionate edge in educational opportunity and good jobs.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1056543Date Published
2019Publisher
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
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