Black-White Racial Income Gap Widens in U.S.
The Associated Press
Decades after the civil-rights movement, the income gap between black and white families has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of some 2,300 families for more than 30 years. Incomes have increased among both black and white families in the past three decades - mainly because more women are in the work force. …Incomes among black men have actually declined in the past three decades, when adjusted for inflation. They were offset only by gains among black women. Incomes among white men, meanwhile, were relatively stagnant, while those of white women increased more than fivefold.