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Research Category: Studies of Wealth Inequity

  • Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020

    July 27, 2022

    Analysis looks at size of racial wealth gaps back to 1860 and finds slow convergence through to 1980 and then a widening again since then.

  • Disparities in Wealth by Race and Ethnicity in the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances

    July 27, 2020

    Long-standing and substantial wealth disparities between families in different racial and ethnic groups were little changed since 2016, the typical White family has eight times the wealth of the typical…

  • Explained | Racial Wealth Gap

    July 27, 2020

  • The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes

    June 28, 2020

  • The economic impact of closing the racial wealth gap

    July 27, 2019

    The persistent racial wealth gap in the United States is a burden on Black Americans as well as the overall economy. New research quantifies the impact of closing the gap…

  • The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

    July 27, 2019

    Baradan studies role that financial structures have played in creating and maintaining the racial wealth gap.

  • Systematic Inequality: How America’s Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap

    July 27, 2018

    CAP report on the disparity in Black and White wealth in the US. Offers a comparison of current wealth levels, discussion of barriers to Black wealth accumulation and policy recommendations…

  • Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016

    July 27, 2018

    No progress has been made in reducing income and wealth inequalities between Black and White households over the past 70 years.

  • The Asset Value of Whiteness

    July 27, 2017