There's seems to be a study every two months because they're easy to do, and people are hoping the problem will have magically fixed itself. But from a quick go

There's seems to be a study every two months because they're easy to do, and people are hoping the problem will have magically fixed itself. But from a quick google and (https://cepr.net/report/the-continuing-power-of-white-preferences-in-employment/ https://cepr.net/report/the-continuing-power-of-white-prefer...), in 2022 the unemployment for white high school dropouts was 3.4% while the unemployment rate for black people with bachelors' degrees was 3.3%. https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/b38Bg/9/#embed https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/b38Bg/9/#embed Another - black people get 50% fewer callbacks in general: https://hbr.org/2017/10/hiring-discrimination-against-black-americans-hasnt-declined-in-25-years https://hbr.org/2017/10/hiring-discrimination-against-black-... Here's a random Ipsos poll that finds US attitudes on higher education virtually indistinguishable by race (which understates black educational values based on other studies I recall, but to say that the value put on education was indistinguishable is enough, considering the outcome.) https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/all-americans-see-value-higher-education-race-continues-be-partisan-flashpoint https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/all-americans-see-val... An interesting quote from a guy who ran a study reported on in Fortune: "White participants who opposed affirmative action were more than twice as likely to select an applicant with a white-sounding name compared with applicants perceived as Black – whether or not they had to make the simulated hiring decision in a hurry. "By contrast, giving white participants who favor affirmative action unlimited time to choose a name from the hiring list reduced discrimination against the job candidates with names they perceived as Black-sounding by almost half." What this means is that the 50% fewer callbacks (mentioned above) for black-sounding names became only 25% fewer if you believed in AA, but if you didn't like AA, you would call random white-sounding names twice as often as random black-sounding names. https://fortune.com/2023/09/24/affirmative-action-race-discrimination-hiring-black-sounding-names-study/ https://fortune.com/2023/09/24/affirmative-action-race-discr... So, I wouldn't say this random selection of links proves what I said true, but I'd say that it points pretty heavily in a direction.