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To determine which racial and ethnic groups have the widest gender pay gaps, Bankrate aggregated and analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey Annual Social and ...
“More solvent” households gained a median of $19,700 in wealth from 2019 to 2021, while “wealthier” households earned an extra $57,800 to their net worth and “richer” households added ...
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.
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.
There exists a racial wealth gap due in part to income disparities and differences in achievement resulting from institutional discrimination. According to Thomas Shapiro, differences in savings (due to different rates of incomes), inheritance factors, and discrimination in the housing market lead to the racial wealth gap. Shapiro claims that ...
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.
Women earn 0.94% less than men at P&G, so females make 99.36 cents for every dollar as males “Multicultural groups earn 0.5% less than white men at P&G, so minorities make 99.5 cents for every ...