An alarming new study finds that the wage gap between whites and blacks is larger now than it was nearly four decades ago.

The report from the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think-tank, claims that black men in the United States make 22 percent less than white men in "comparable jobs" and that black women make 11.7 percent less than white women in equivalent professional roles.

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