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Poverty persists 50 years after the Poor People’s Campaign: Black poverty rates are more than twice as high as white poverty rates
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Environmental Racism
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Many of the policy recommendations from the Kerner Commission remain relevant 50 years later
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50 years after the Kerner Commission: African Americans are better off in many ways but are still disadvantaged by racial inequality
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Zero Weeks plus Ellen Bravo on the importance of paid family and medical leave
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Why is teaching becoming a less appealing occupation? One answer is right in front of us
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Toxic stress and children’s outcomes: African American children growing up poor are at greater risk of disrupted physiological functioning and depressed academic achievement
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U.S. Schools Struggle to Hire and Retain Teachers: The second report in “The Perfect Storm in the Teacher Labor Market” series
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Research is vital to the moral integrity of social movements
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Black unemployment is at least twice as high as white unemployment at the national level and in 14 states and the District of Columbia
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The teacher shortage is real, large and growing, and worse than we thought: The first report in “The Perfect Storm in the Teacher Labor Market” series
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Higher returns on education can’t explain growing wage inequality
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A close look at recent increases in the black unemployment rate
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There’s nothing radical about Elizabeth Warren’s proposal for universal childcare
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Stark black–white divide in wages is widening further
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State of Working America Wages 2018: Wage inequality marches on—and is even threatening data reliability
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Black women’s labor market history reveals deep-seated race and gender discrimination
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The Raise the Wage Act of 2019 would give black workers a much-needed boost in pay
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Before the State of the Union, a fact check on black unemployment
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Latina workers have to work 10 months into 2018 to be paid the same as white non-Hispanic men in 2017
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Black unemployment is at least twice as high as white unemployment at the national level and in 12 states and D.C.: The highest African American unemployment rate is in the District of Columbia at 12.4 percent, while the highest white unemployment rate is in West Virginia at 5.0 percent
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Exploring the effects of student absenteeism
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Student absenteeism: Who misses school and how missing school matters for performance
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Digging into the 2017 ACS: Improved income growth for Native Americans, but lots of variation in the pace of recovery for different Asian ethnic groups
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America’s slow-motion wage crisis: Four decades of slow and unequal growth
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10 years after the start of the Great Recession, black and Asian households have yet to recover lost income
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Despite overall unemployment under 4 percent, black unemployment exceeds 6 percent in 14 states and D.C.: The highest African American unemployment rate is in the District of Columbia at 12.4 percent, while the highest white unemployment rate is in West Virginia at 5.1 percent
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Separate is still unequal: How patterns of occupational segregation impact pay for black women
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Workers of color are far more likely to be paid poverty-level wages than white workers
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Class of 2018: High school edition
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The erosion of the federal minimum wage has increased poverty, especially for black and Hispanic families