LUCKILY for Barack Obama, the US president’s salary doesn’t depend on who gets elected. A study of racial discrimination in the US workplace suggests that mixed-race Americans are discriminated against just as much as black people in terms of salary.
“Mixed-race Americans are discriminated against just as much as black people in terms of salary”
Economist at the University of California at Santa Cruz examined the US census for 2000 – the first to include the “mixed race” option for ethnicity. The census also questioned people about their earnings.
Fairlie reckoned that if racial discrimination in the US is…
