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The Atlantic: Black Men Need More Education Than White Men to Get Jobs

By Margaret Barthel

“Meet Steve and Kwame, two fictional guys who just graduated from the University of Maryland. Almost everything about them is weirdly identical—they majored in the same subject, they got the same grades in college, they have the same bullet points on their resumes—but Kwame is African American and Steve is white.  Now, they’re both spending their post-pomp-and-circumstance summer looking for jobs. Do they have the same employment prospects?” Read more here.