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Key announcements about The Racial Wealth Equity Resource Center and the work of our supporting organizations, as well as updates, articles, and food-for-thought from our blog.

  • ‘To Live and Thrive’ in Massachusetts: Native American Perspectives on Wealth

    January 16, 2025

    Commissioned by Boston Indicators and written by researchers from UMass Boston, this report uses data and focus groups to paint a fuller picture of how the wealth gap affects Massachusetts'…

    To Live and Thrive cover

  • Inequality and Insecurity in Retirement: Racial disparities in retirement plans in the U.S. and Massachusetts

    June 4, 2024

    Retirement assets are a large part of the wealth puzzle for families at the middle and upper end of the distribution.

  • Debt, Delinquency and Racial Disparities in Massachusetts

    May 17, 2024

    By Alyssa Haywoode and Peter Ciurczak Debt has several faces. Borrowing money for long-term investments can be beneficial because it allows individuals or businesses to leverage capital they don’t currently…

  • Breaking Down Asset Types by Race

    April 11, 2024

    By Peter Ciurczak Net wealth is the difference of two values; that is, assets (the positive side of the ledger) minus liabilities, or debt (the negative side).  While most of…

  • Race and Class Zoning in Newton

    March 20, 2024

    By Alyssa Haywoode When Amy Dain began exploring the history of zoning in Greater Boston, she found evidence of widespread exclusionary zoning, policies that largely resulted in segregation by race…

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  • A race/class analysis of the wealth distribution

    January 31, 2024

    In relative terms, Black and Latino Americans really are far more likely to be low-wealth. But it’s simultaneously true that most low-wealth families are white.

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