1.   And the earnings gap between black and white males has not narrowed in more than a decade.

2.   A huge earnings gap separates black and white men.

3.   For black women, who have a smaller earnings gap than do black men, the gap with white women has continued to widen slowly.

4.   For the second year in a row the earnings gap between men and women increased.

5.   If all students left high school with strong basic skills, they say, the earnings gap would begin to narrow.

6.   In speech after speech Sweeney has said that one of his priorities is to reduce the earnings gap between rich and poor.

7.   Reductions in the earnings gap between workers of different races follow when educational attainment equalizes.

8.   Sales declines at Gap Inc. this spring have translated into a big earnings gap.

9.   Still, income inequality is rising in the region as industrialization broadened the earnings gap between skilled and non-skilled workers.

10.   That idea runs counter to the goals of bringing valuable skills to the economy and closing the earnings gap between high-paid and low-paid workers.