Systemic Barriers Continue to Hold Back Wages and Employment for Kentuckians of Color

June 19, 2019
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
Dustin Pugel

On the 154^th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, barriers to thriving for black Kentuckians are still deeply entrenched. Data on wages and unemployment in Kentucky show that discrimination and systemic racism still hold us back as a state.

Racial Wage Gap State of Working X

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EARNCon 2019

Pittsburgh, PA

Oct. 2-4

EARN is heading to Pittsburgh, PA for the 2019 annual EARN Conference. This year’s EARNCON is being organized in collaboration with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) to ensure that race and racial justice are front and center in the conference’s discussions of state and local policy.

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