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Racial wage gaps are wider today than in 1979 due largely to discrimination and growing income inequality, according to new research from the Economic Policy Institute.
The average wage gap between black and white workers was 18.1 percent in 1979, with the gap widening to 26.7 percent in 2015, the left-leaning think tank reports.
Rutgers University economist William M. Rodgers III co-authored the report with Valerie Wilson, director of EPI's Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy.
"We've found that racial wage gaps are growing primarily due to discrimination -- and other unmeasured and unobserved characteristics-- along with rising inequality in general," Rodgers said.
The state of Illinois and the Federal Rail Administration have agreed to extend funding for the passenger rail project linking the Quad Cities to Chicago.
A Chicago pilot program is underway to house homeless people who live under Lake Shore Drive viaducts on the city's North Side. Homeless encampment residents met with city officials Wednesday to discuss the pilot program's status and what comes next for "Tent City."
A federal appeals court on Monday ruled in favor of female paramedics who alleged that the physical performance test previously used by the city of Chicago in hiring discriminated against women.
Racial wage gaps are wider today than in 1979 due largely to discrimination and growing income inequality, according to 