In 1973, the United States had a gross domestic product of $1.4 trillion dollars. Today, fifty years later, that number has skyrocketed to $26.2 trillion. Alongside this massive economic growth is a different number - the wage gap between white Americans and people of color. Our current wage gap between white and Black Americans is slightly larger than it was in 1973. Despite the huge economic gains for the country as a whole, key measures of persistent racial inequity have not been reduced. That has deep impacts across America, seen in poverty, housing patterns, and other indications of a society that does not have equal distribution of resources.
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A lot has changed in 50 years. The racial wage gap has not.
The stubborn racial inequity between workers needs work
The efforts to close this yawning gap come from a wide variety of individuals and organizations. One of them is PolicyLink, which addresses the racial wage gap “by working with business leaders and investors to normalize living wages across entire workforces,” says Mahlet Getachew, director of the Corporate Racial Equity program.
But it’s not only business leaders and investors who can help bring awareness to this issue. To bring greater attention to the persistent problems and innovative solutions of racial inequity, The Allstate Foundation has partnered with Vox Creative on the video above. To learn more about how you can take action to close the racial wage gap, take the quiz here.