As Princeton Professor, Devah Pager's research shows, when Blacks, Latinos, and Whites, Black job applicants are only two- thirds as successful as Latinos, and little more than half as successful as equally qualified Whites in being hired. IN FACT, her research discovered that in labor markets with massive Black employment
, Black job seekers with NO criminal record fared no better than White men just released from prison!
She concluded with this direct contradict
ion of Cain's Conservati
ve premise about racism not having a major impact (which betrays the racist underpinni
ngs and/or willful blindness of Conservati
sm):
"Discrimin
ation continues to represent a major barrier to economic self-suffi
ciency for those at the low end of the labor market hierarchy. Blacks, and to a lesser extent Latinos, are routinely passed over in favor of Whites for the most basic kinds of low-wage work. Indeed, discrimina
tion has not been eliminated in the post-civil rights period as some contend, but remains a vital component of a complex pattern of racial inequality
."
http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/pub
lications.
htm
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