Education Closing Racial Income Gap
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
College-educated black women have nearly closed the income gap with their white counterparts, according to a snapshot of black America released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Black women with bachelor’s degrees made 98% of what white women with the same level of education did in 1995, the figures showed. College-educated black men’s income was 73% of that of similarly educated whites. Women of both races made less than men. Black per capita income overall was 56% of white income.
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