An in-depth look at America’s racial wage gap

The educational attainment gap may have narrowed in the last 40 years between Black and white Americans, but the wage gap hasn’t, and economic experts have been examining to what extent racism is to blame when compared to other factors. Black employees who have the same education as white workers earn around 20% less, per the Economic Policy Institute, and economics professor Darrick Hamilton says, “Race is a deciding factor.”