Note the time frame of the growing disparity in pay. It's no wonder the GOP struggles to win over anyone other than angry white men because that's their target audience. They pound their fists on the table and trash any programs that might help level the playing field, convinced that somehow racism in the workplace doesn't exist. The facts say otherwise.
Blacks and Hispanics lag behind whites for higher-paying jobs at the largest rates in about a decade as employment opportunities dwindled during the nation’s economic woes and housing slump.
Census data released Monday show an increasingly educated U.S. work force whose earnings didn’t always seem to match up with its potential.
“The lesson of most economic downturns is minorities are the last hired, first fired. They lose jobs more quickly, and they will be the last to recover,” said Roderick Harrison, a demographer at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank that studies minority issues.
