A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout | ThinkProgress

A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout | ThinkProgress: African-American students need to complete two more levels of education to have the same probability of getting a job as their white peers, a new study by Young Invincibles finds.

The researchers looked at data mainly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census, isolating the effects of race and education on unemployment. They found that an African-American male with an associates degree has around the same chance of getting a job as a white male with just a high school diploma. “At every level of education, race impacts a person’s chance of getting a job,” Tom Allison, a research manager and one of the study’s authors, told ThinkProgress.