US Census Bureau Report Says Blacks Continue to Earn Less than Whites

US Census Bureau report says blacks continue to earn less than whites, lack of social connections, education and discrimination play a role says NAACP.

The economic fallout continues to dog African Americans in greater numbers than whites. According to CNN Money, African-American workers continue to earn far less than whites, according to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Furthermore, little progress has been made over the years to close the income gap. At a per-capita income of $18,054 in 2008, African-American earnings were just 57.9% that of whites' $28,502. That was a slight improvement over 2007 when black income was just 56.4%, but down from 2005, when it was 59.3%.....

African-Americans are over-represented in the lowest earnings categories and under-represented in the highest earning ones. More than half of all blacks, 15 years old or over and working full-time, earned under $35,000 in 2008. Only 35% of white workers earned less than that. On the other hand, 10.8% of all white workers made more than $100,000 a year, the highest income category in the Census report. That compared with just 3.3% of blacks earning six-figure salaries.

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