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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 ...

4 Ways Repealing the Estate Tax Would Expand the Racial Wealth Gap - The racial wealth gap in America limits economic mobility and endangers the ... Republican tax plans would increase economic inequality in America .

Our decomposition allows us to compare actual wealth inequality with a counterfactual world without racial wealth gaps, but where inequality overall ... View article...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... inequality across the U.S. This part looks at the racial wealth gap in America. ... And through the Great Migration and after, African Americans faced ... 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...

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...

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

“Interise believes that the number one problem facing America today is economic inequality and the ever widening wealth gap, particularly the racial ... View article...

But the bigger story when we're talking about racial inequality and appraisals is actually not so much about an individual appraiser's decision as much ... View article...

To Fight Racial Inequality We Need To Rethink Our Economy -  Even in the wake of the 2008 crash, which decimated black wealth, inequality within black communities is higher than it has ever been and is higher than it is within white communities. Focusing primarily on the racial gap can cause us to lose sight of the ways that black communities themselves are now ...

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

"Canceling $50,000 in debt is where you really make a dent in inequality and the racial wealth gap. $10,000 isn't.". View article...

Readers' responses to these articles taught me a lot about where Americans stand on race and economic inequality, and revealed the persistence of ... View article...

... inequality across the United States. The project will focus on the connection between the wealth gap and rates of entrepreneurship in various ... View article...

... at the top will lead to further increases in racial wealth inequality ." ... income inequality is associated with worse health in adulthood, ... View article...

The report's authors note that American cities “are home to profound racial inequality” that persists across housing, businesses, and retirement ... View article...

Why Black Families Struggle to Build Wealth - In his new book, Toxic Inequality : How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future, Tom Shapiro, ...