Episode 326: Gender and Race Wage Gaps
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How Much Do Americans Make?
There is a point where it gets too granular and you don't get it. Even those that are tracked on the basis of race and gender, while gender is a simpler thing to deal with,. With race, you've got this problem and you can see it in the data. Back in the 1950s, 1960s, it was whites, blacks, other. And then later on, Hispanics showed up and so it was blacks, not Hispanic, comma, other comma, Hispanic. Then you get probably starting around the 1990s, 1980s, Asian shows up as its own classification. It all becomes very complicated.
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