By Steven Monacelli A report commissioned by Mayor Eric Johnson about the Dallas workforce released in November revealed only 40 percent of jobs in Dallas pay more than $32,000 — significantly less than the “family-sustaining wage” of $42,000 or more identified by the report — and that Black workers hold just 15 percent of those jobs despite making up 25 percent of the population. This job and income inequity is a part of a broader constellation of racial inequities solidified over decades of slavery and Jim Crow oppression that persists to this day despite significant federal, state and local
