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African Americans were 7.3% less likely to have live parents, 24.5% more likely to have three or more siblings, and 30.6% less likely to be married or cohabiting (meaning two people could gain inheritances to contribute to the household) [27] Keister discovered that large family size has a negative effect on wealth accumulation. These negative ...
Statistics on exonerations offer further evidence of the significant challenges African Americans face in the criminal justice system. Of the 153 prisoners exonerated in the US last year, 93 ...
That kept many from taking advantage of historically low rates in the first year of the pandemic. For instance, Black homeowners received only 3.7% of the $5.3 billion in savings from pandemic ...
Even free African Americans have faced restrictions on their political, social, and economic freedoms, being subjected to lynchings, segregation, Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, and other forms of discrimination, both before and after the Civil War.
Center for Financial Security Director & University of Wisconsin—Madison Professor J. Michael Collins joins Yahoo Finance’s Zack Guzman to discuss the inequalities in retirement security for ...
Black youth in the United States have historically been instructed by their parents or other caregivers on the dangers they face due to racism. [1] [2] [3] Variations of the talk have been conducted in black families for decades [4] or generations; [2] [5] the practice "dates back to slavery and has lasted centuries". [1] The talk has evolved.
A new report from California’s first-in-the-country reparations task force details how slavery touched nearly every aspect of Black life in America, producing “innumerable harms” that are ...
While African Americans and Asian Americans have both faced historical and current racial discrimination from whites, the means of discrimination have often taken different forms. In addition, these two groups (which encompass numerous ancestral backgrounds) have also competed for jobs, education and resources over the decades, and have ...