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Jun 14, 2022 · A new study shows the simple math of why — absent radical measures — America's racial wealth gap won't be closing anytime soon.
- Greg Rosalsky
Dec 4, 2023 · In dollar amounts, the wealth gap between White households and Black and Hispanic households increased from 2019 to 2021. For example, in 2019, the typical White household had $168,800 more in wealth than the typical Hispanic household. This gap increased to $201,700 in 2021.
- Shannon Greenwood
May 23, 2018 · The Racial Wealth Gap: With Samira Wiley, Mehrsa Baradaran, Cory Booker, Thomas Shapiro. Cory Booker and others discuss how slavery, housing discrimination and centuries of inequality have compounded to create a racial wealth gap.
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Feb 7, 2024 · Open Vault Blog. U.S. Wealth Inequality: Gaps Remain Despite Widespread Wealth Gains. February 07, 2024. By Ana Hernández Kent , Lowell R. Ricketts. Wealth—what a family owns less what they owe—is distributed unequally in the United States. Why does wealth matter?
Feb 27, 2020 · February 27, 2020. 6 min read. Follow the authors. @emilynmoss. @ryandnunn. @JayCShambaugh. A close examination of wealth in the U.S. finds evidence of staggering racial disparities. At...
Specifically, the possible obstacles to wealth equalization that have been studied are savings rates, inheritances, rates of return on investments, and income. If blacks and whites differ on any of these dimensions, it could explain the persistence of the wealth gap.
Oct 22, 2021 · Our results quantifying racial wealth gaps through the lens of a Lorenz curve decomposition and a racial equality counterfactual, complementing existing studies that document pre-existing wealth gaps across racial lines.
