50 Years After the Kerner Commission, Black Americans are Not Economically Equal

From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/):

50 years after the Kerner Commission delivered a report to President Johnson examining the causes of civil unrest in African American communities, a new EPI briefing paper compares the state of black workers and their families in 1968 with the economic circumstances African Americans face today. EPI’s Janelle Jones, John Schmitt, and Valerie Wilson find that while African Americans today are much better educated than they were in 1968—and in many ways better off in absolute terms than they were in 1968—they are still economically disadvantaged relative to whites. Read the briefing paper »