Although salaries for U.S. physicians edged higher in 2018, gaps in compensation remained unchanged for females and African Americans, according to Medscape’s latest Physician Compensation Report, online April 11. “The gender gap, notably among specialists, remained unchanged, with men earning about 36 percent more than […]
The Urban Institute recently investigated how the housing market has changed 50 years after the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968. As with the recent review of the Kerner Report , the Urban Institute found that things have not changed much. “We’ve made important […]
A nonpartisan government watchdog agency released a report Wednesday outlining severe disparities between how white students and students of color are disciplined ― the same day Education Secretary Betsy DeVos met with groups to discuss possibly rescinding Obama-era guidance designed to reduce these inequities. Source: […]
The Sacramento police department, still reeling from weekend protests over the killing of an unarmed Black man Stephon Clark, was hit with a sexual abuse lawsuit Friday alleging that an officer fondled and sexually molested a Black woman. Source: On heels of shooting, Sacramento police blasted with sexual […]
A new and sad study explores the cryptic intersections of class and race. A research group from Stanford University, Harvard University, the Census Bureau and other prestigious organizations, concluded that white boys who grow up rich typically remained wealthy as adults. However, Black boys who […]
The rapid rise of oligarchy and wealth and income inequality is the great moral, economic, and political issue of our time. Yet, it gets almost no coverage from the corporate media. How often do network newscasts report on the 40 million Americans living in poverty, […]
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