Black Workers’ Wages Are Finally Rising

By artappraiser on Fri, 02/07/2020 - 3:06pm |

After a decade of stagnation, black and African-American workers have seen pay increase. One man’s story shows the hope — and limitations — with that shift.

The black unemployment rate is near a record low, wages for black Americans are rising, and young black men in particular have seen strong employment gains — all signs of the power of a strong labor market.
But also of it’s limitations. https://t.co/upChMg42c3 pic.twitter.com/DTNnwGRKa0
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) February 7, 2020

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/business/black-unemployment-wages.html

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To see all three graphs in full without going to the Times site, click on the tweet to get it as a pop-up on Twitter, then click on one of the images. You will then get a popup slideshow of all three.

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/07/2020 - 3:13pm

Can you spot the point at which the robots and immigrants started stealing all the good jobs? I’m really struggling here. pic.twitter.com/2rFOgDJ3PA
— John W Lettieri (@LettieriDC) February 8, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 02/08/2020 - 6:50pm

IMPORTANT posted this before, bears reposting again:

This is fact check: True. (as we noted last night.)

LBJ's average was 4.2% https://t.co/KuEMC08dOq
— Jim Tankersley (@jimtankersley) February 5, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 02/08/2020 - 6:58pm

Black Workers’ Wages Are Finally Rising

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