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Why America's Racial Wealth Gap Is Really a Homeownership Gap  - Ruetschlin and her colleagues have authored a new report showing the extent to which inequality in homeownership drives the racial wealth gap, and ...

The racial wealth gap is where yesterday's injustice becomes today's inequality . And it's growing. - Since the end of the Civil War, America has slowly and painfully worked to break down racial barriers and heal the wounds of slavery. We've made ...

Why the Racial Wealth Gap Could Spell Doom For America's Superpower Status  - But since the summer of 2011, discussions of income inequality have made their ... “The impetus for policy action is the self-interest of every American , ...

Wide Black-White Wealth Gap Growing - The alarming report, whose findings prove the economic racial divide has not lessened since Jim Crow, is the result of a study by The Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan think tank. Titled “Systematic Inequality : How America's Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap,” the ...

The difference accounts for nearly 40% of the racial wealth gap, with stocks, bonds, and retirement accounts making up the rest.  View article...

What he's saying: "[W]hen you have large poverty concentrated disproportionately among African Americans, it actually leads to the deficit of us all," he ... View article...

How wildfires, hurricanes and other disasters worsen the racial wealth gap in America - Natural disasters are devastating Americans in unbelievable numbers. ... “What this means is wealth inequality is increasing in counties that are hit by ...

... the disproportionate debt Black students are taking to finance their education is reinforcing the racial wealth gap. Today, the average white family ... View article...

A new phone app is hoping to help close the racial wealth gap by empowering Black investors and helping build generational wealth. View article...

Tackling the racial wealth gap is a top priority for the Black Economic Council, which is located in one of the most inequitable cities in the country. View article...

... be assessed by wealth instead of income, and there is a direct relationship between student debt cancellation and minimizing the racial wealth gap. View article...

During the past year, policymakers and the American public have engaged in ongoing soul-searching about the persistence of racial inequality in ... View article...

Why it matters: This entrepreneurial inequality is an under-appreciated driver of the racial wealth gap. Only 6% of businesses are Hispanic-owned, ... View article...

The National Urban League is out with its latest assessment on the State of Black America . The report measures racial inequality in U.S. society ... View article...

So, this is the challenge facing not just HBCUs and their students, but the nation as a whole. If we want to end racial inequality and inequity, if we ... View article...

The racial wealth gap in America today is as wide as it has every been in history. And that's due in large part to inequality when it comes to ... View article...

His excellent new book, “Fixing the Racial Wealth Gap: Racism and Discrimination” is a keystone for his mission to create financial literacy and ... View article...

Racial inequality in America starts with the home. ... Because homeownership is perhaps the critical way in which Americans build wealth and transfer ... View article...

I think most white Americans think the problem with the racial wealth gap is due to a disproportionate percentage of Blacks living in poverty. While it is ... View article...

Greater homeownership isn't the answer to ending wealth inequality - Whichever way you look at it, the wealth inequality gap between black and white Americans is staggering. It's far worse than income inequality , and one of the reasons why racial inequality hasn't improved in the US over the past 50 years, and in some ways has gotten even worse. In the US , the average ...