How discrimination and rising overall inequality are expanding the black-white wage gap

On Tuesday, September 27th at 11 a.m. Eastern, the Economic Policy Institute will host a panel discussion to discuss new research showing that the gap between black and white workers’ wages was larger in 2015 than in 1979. Even when controlling for racial differences in education attainment, potential experience and location, the persistence of the gap leads the authors to conclude that discrimination and rising overall inequality are the primary reasons for the increased black-white wage gap.

Director of EPI’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy Valerie R. Wilson and Rutgers University Professor of Public Policy William M. Rodgers will discuss their new work, with Richard Freeman of Harvard University and Dorian Warren of the Roosevelt Institute. CNN’s Tanzina Vega will moderate the discussion.