Seventy percent of LaunchCode’s students are making less than $30,000 a year. – Last year, White House economists predicted that low-income workers — those who make less than $20 an hour — face the highest probability of losing their jobs to robots. But people of color are especially at risk: an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a report last year finding that just about 8 percent of tech-sector jobs are held by Hispanics and 7.4 percent by African-Americans.
But there are some organizations out there trying to close the gap and make sure low-income workers and people of color aren’t […]
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