有色人世代相传地面临着经济不平等,最近的“黑人生活问题”抗议浪潮重新讨论了这些差距。 与白人家庭相比,其他种族的收入和净资产水平较低。他们也不太可能持有任何类型的资产。实际上,有19%的黑人家庭的净资产为零或负数,而只有9%的白人家庭没有财富。 图表使用了美联储三年一度的消费者金融调查数据,以强调种族...
The Racial Wealth Gap: Measurement, Trends, and Policy ImplicationsPrice, Anne
The persistent racial wealth gap in the US is a drag on Black Americans as well as the overall economy. New research quantifies the impact of closing the gap and identifies key sources of this socioeconomic inequity.
We investigate reasons for the neighborhood sorting patterns we observe and find that differences in financial factors such as income, wealth, or housing costs between Black and white households do not explain racial distributions across neighborhoods. Our findings suggest other factors are at work, ...
A big reason for that is that blacks and Hispanics have far less wealth to start with than their white counterparts -- a concept known as the racial wealth gap. Wealth, or net worth, is the value of assets including your home, retirement savings and income minus the debt owed against ...
February 5, 2024Generative AI (gen AI) has the potential to create value for companies and generate wealth for workers. The technology could also widen racial economic gaps, according to senior partnerMark McMillanand colleagues. For example, by 2045, gen AI could boost household wealth in the...
persist. Some racial gaps, like the wealth gap, have widened since 2020. Others, such as the racial gap in business ownership, have narrowed[1]. Racial gaps continue to be a material headwind to the U.S. economy, impacting Black communities and individuals through unequal access to work, ...
Significant wealth gaps exist by age, education, marital status, and income. The implication is that African-Americans continue to face substantial obstacles in the labor, housing and credit markets to rebuilding their wealth and significantly close the wealth gap. The racial wealth gap in 2016 ...
The term "racial wealth gap" technically refers to the difference in assets owned by various racial or ethnic groups but this gap results from a range of factors that affect theiroverall economic well-being. The term reflects disparities in access to opportunities, means of support, resources, a...
This difference was much larger than the prevailing income gap of 60 cents-to-the-dollar. More alarmingly, the racial wealth gap has increased further since it was first analyzed. Our analysis reveals an increase of $151,000 in the absolute racial wealth gap between 1984 and 2009. This ...