
Black boys, but not girls, earn less than whites
“Even when children grow up next to each other with parents who earn similar incomes, black boys fare worse than white boys,” concludes a new study by Stanford, Harvard and Census Bureau researchers. However, there is no earnings gap for black girls. “Gaps persisted even when black and white boys grew up in families with the same income, similar family structures, similar education levels and even similar levels of accumulated wealth,” reports the New York Times in a story wi