How far we’ve come, or not

13Apr07

• The gulf between white and African-American incomes has hardly narrowed at all. In 1968 – the year of Martin Luther King’s assassination — blacks earned, on average, 55¢ for every $1 of white income. By 2001, they were getting 57¢—a gain of 2¢. At that, parity could be achieved in another 581 years. • […]

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