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A new report has found that Texas, Wyoming and Mississippi have made the most progress in achieving racial equality since the Civil Rights Movement, while the District of Columbia, Iowa and ...
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.
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.
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 wealth gap could be reduced by 10% over three generations if Black households wrote wills at the same rate as white ones, according to a recent study.
A December 2011 Gallup poll found a decline in the number of Americans who rated reducing the gap in income and wealth between the rich and the poor as extremely or very important (21 percent of Republicans, 43 percent of independents, and 72 percent of Democrats). [191] Only 45% see the gap as in need of fixing, while 52% do not.
The Great Recession also caused a drop of 36% in median household wealth, but a drop of only 11% for the top 1%, further widening the gap between the top 1% and the bottom 99%. [ 16 ] [ 15 ] [ 17 ] According to PolitiFact and other sources, in 2011, the 400 wealthiest Americans had more wealth than half of all Americans combined.
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