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High school graduates have experienced a rapid economic recovery from the pandemic with real wage growth of 9.4% over the past 4 years, but racial and gender disparities remain, according to EPI's Katherine deCourcy and Elise Gould.

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To ensure recent gains are fully realized and that racial and gender wage gaps are addressed, policymakers must prioritize full employment, increase the federal minimum wage, strengthen and enforce labor standards, and make it easier for workers to come together and form unions.

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