Sentence examples for a persistent racial from inspiring English sources

And yet the survey found a persistent racial divide among low-income households when it comes to computer ownership and Internet access at home.

For the past two decades, the National Cancer Institute has documented a persistent racial disparity in colon cancer survival rates in the United States.

The ACLU of Oregon said that while it doesn't yet have statewide numbers on marijuana arrests or citations since legalization in July 2015, it's interested in learning whether Oregon will follow Colorado with a persistent racial disparity in marijuana violations.

In the five decades since Harlem-based Rep. Adam Clayton Powell held congressional hearings on discrimination in Hollywood, a persistent racial gap exists between what's viewed on screen and reality.

But while many formal discriminatory barriers have fallen, many black residents of Milwaukee today see a persistent racial divide that they say has created an urgency similar to what Father Groppi expressed decades ago.

If in fact my counterpart, a white physician making six figures, had a wife the same age and her likelihood of losing their child was less than half of my wife's chances of losing my child, why should that be?" It is a mystery that consumes not only Dr. Bowers but a growing field of researchers struggling to explain a persistent racial gap in American infant mortality rates.

Studies have also shown that there is a significant and persistent racial and socioeconomic disparity for a number of adverse pregnancy outcomes including infant mortality, LBW, PTB and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) [ 1, 21- 24].

The United States faces a deeply troublesome, maddeningly persistent racial gap in income and wealth -- a gap that is growing, not shrinking.

Black and Latino representation has declined in Silicon Valley, and although Asians are the most likely to be hired, they are the least likely to be promoted, according to a new study exposing persistent racial prejudice in the tech industry.

At the same time, for me, it was haunted by what was left out: unemployment (still almost 10%), foreclosures, rising poverty and persistent racial disparities, Guantánamo, racially biased drug wars that have given the US the highest per capita rate of imprisonment in the world, violence and discrimination against women, manmade global warming, shredded social services, and, yes, all those guns.

And in the same paper on the same day was an article about the persistent racial wealth gap.