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Economic Equality Still Century-Old Urban League’s Top Priority

Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy

The National Urban League, founded in 1910 to spur the economic progress of black people, released its "State of Black America" report this week with a call for a stronger federal jobs bill, writes The Washington Post. The jobs measure passed by Congress last week does not do enough to raise employment prospects in poor communities, Marc H. Morial, chief of the Urban League, said Wednesday in unveiling the annual study. Since 1974, when the league began tracking racial and economic disparity yearly, median black family income as a proportion of white earnings has risen only slightly, from 58 to

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