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[WDAM, 09/08/16]
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<p><span id="WNStoryDateline">BILOXI, MS (WLOX)&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p>According to a&nbsp;<a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/JSRI160239_JSRI_StateWorkingMS_r20.pdf" target="_blank">new report by the&nbsp;Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University in New Orleans</a>,&nbsp;African-American workers make nearly 30 percent less than whites in Mississippi. Around 100,000 working families in the state are without health care.</p>
<p>The disturbing findings in the report made public on Thursday&nbsp;outline wage disparities among class, gender, and race.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Growing income inequality has left low and middle class workers in Mississippi without wage increases since the Great Recession,&quot; said&nbsp;Father Fred Kammer, director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute. &quot;While the highest earning workers have enjoyed significant growth in wages.&quot;</p>
<p>Along with statistics showing the poor in Mississippi indeed getting poorer in recent years, the report also found significant disparities in wages along racial lines.</p>
<p>&ldquo;In 2015, African-American workers earned a median hourly wage that was $4.65 per hour, or 28 percent less than white workers,&rdquo; said lead researcher, Jeanie Donovan.</p>
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