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The twin demons of the housing market crash and the Great Recession have created historic wealth gaps among ethnic and racial groups in America, according to new Pew Research analysis: The median ...
Ethnic and racial groups also differ in rates of homeownership, residential segregation, overall wealth, exposure to crime and toxic pollutants, and in access to power in the upper reaches of our society". [6] Thus, the racial wage gap is just one aspect of inequality in the United States.
A study by the Brandeis University Institute on Assets and Social Policy which followed the same sets of families for 25 years found that there are vast differences in wealth across racial groups in the United States. The wealth gap between Caucasian and African-American families studied nearly tripled, from $85,000 in 1984 to $236,500 in 2009.
The article "America's Financial Divide" added context to racial wealth inequality, stating: ... nearly 96.1 percent of the 1.2 million households in the top one percent by income were white, a total of about 1,150,000 households. In addition, these families were found to have a median net asset worth of $8.3 million.
Homeownership has long been known as a tool for building wealth and lifting Americans into the middle class. But a new report highlights other ways in which renting burdens many households ...
For every $100 the average white family had in wealth, the average Black family had $15.75, per 2022 Federal Reserve data. Is racial wealth gap 'smallest it's been in 20 years,' as President Joe ...
The racial gap in homeownership remains real and significant in the United States according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors, "Snapshot of Race and Home Buying in America."
In his 2017 book, Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, & Threatens Our Future, Shapiro argues that wealth disparities and racial inequities must be understood in tandem.