EPI News

EPI News 9/16/2016

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

EPI will host a panel discussion on new research showing that the wage gap between black and white workers was larger in 2015 than in 1979, and that young black women have been the hardest hit since 2000. Join us on September 27 in DC, or watch the livestream.

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EPI’s Valerie Wilson speaks at the CBCF Legislative Conference

On Thursday, EPI’s Valerie Wilson attended the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 46th Annual Legislative Conference. She spoke on Rep. Barbara Lee’s (D-Calif.) panel discussion on the intersection of poverty and racial and economic inequality as well as on Rep. John Conyers’ (D-Mich.) panel on full employment.