The UCLA Labor Center and Los Angeles Black Worker Center are out with a new report showing a Black jobs crisis in Los Angeles.

The report looks at the adverse effects widening inequality and lack of job opportunities are creating among Black workers.

Authors of the study say it's a call to action to "provide real access to family-sustaining employment opportunities with livable wages, an opportunity for upward mobility and fair and safe workplace practices that are essential to develop an adequate and dignified standard of living for Black workers."

The report finds Black workers are facing this crisis "as the direct result of regressive economic policies and institutionalized racism."

According to the study a third of black workers earn low wages, compared to 21% of white workers. Fifteen percent of Black workers with higher degrees still earn low wages.