There is a real gap between wages of the black US workforce and other ethnicities: the issue is real and the data is not anecdotal.
A new research by McKinsey shows that almost half of the Black US workforce is in lower-paying, frontline-service industries. In contrast to Asian workforce, Blacks have strong presence in industries that have high shares of workers earning less than $30,000 annually.
Up-skilling and on the job training to promote existing workers and investment in education to prepare future workers might help but as always…it takes time.
