Wealth GapThis paper examines the issue of the Black-White wealth gap in the United States. The paper presents pertinent data illustrating that a large gap exists in wealth accumulation between Black and Whites in the United States. The paper presents a number of implications for the Black ...
If you want to understand the black-white wealth gap, it helps to know the story ofWilliam J. Levitt. The son of a real estate attorney, Levitt grew up in Brooklyn and went to New York University. In the first year of the Great Depression, his father started a real-estate developmen...
While many Americansbelieve the wealth gap between blacks and whitesis about 20 cents on the dollar, in reality the median black family has only 10% of the wealth of the median white family.Black Americans are more than twice as likelyas white Americans to be poor, and t...
The wealth gap between Black and white Americans may be partially due to educational opportunities in financial literacy. On average, college-educated African Americans answered 53% of the P-Fin Index questions correctly, compared with 24% among those with a high school degree or lower education ...
Wealthy black people account for approximately 4% of the nation’s top-earning households and the wealth gap between them and the average black person is staggering. The Federal Reserve’ssurvey, along with thePew Research Center, reports there are around 120 million households in America, with ...
When we talk about the history of Black wealth creation in America, it’s almost always a sad story—one that frequently involves violence, dispossession, and disenfranchisement. That narrative is of course valid. In the wake of slavery, the Civil War, and Jim Crow, Black Americans were rout...
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The Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances shows the staggering wealth gap between white Americans and African-Americans as well as the country’s Hispanic population. In 2019, the latest year for which data is available, the average white family in the U.S. had a net worth of almos...
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The violent repression, political absorption and ideological coopta- tion of that Second Reconstruction otherwise known as the modern Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1900s, and the still widening "racial wealth gap" that ongoing backlash helped to preserve, gave similar pause to the black ...