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Bookmark or Share- The State of U.S. Wealth Inequality | St. Louis FedThis bar chart shows the average inflation-adjusted wealth for Black, Hispanic and white households in the second quarter of 2024. Black families had about $1 million less wealth, on average, compared with white families, while Hispanic families had about $1.1 million less wealth, on average, than white families.
- How Black, Hispanic, Asian, White households compare in wealth | Pew ...In percentage terms, Black (77%), Hispanic (42%), Asian (43%) and White (23%) households all experienced strong gains in median wealth from 2019 to 2021. What factors might explain the large wealth gaps across racial and ethnic groups that have endured for decades, if not longer?
- Why The Racial Wealth Gap Is So Hard To Close - NPRSlavery robbed the vast majority of Black Americans of the ability amass wealth and pass it on to their children. They themselves were a form of wealth — other people's wealth. In this...
- Wealth gaps within racial and ethnic groups - Black, Hispanic, Asian ...Wealthier and richer Black households had $79,700 and $414,200 in 2021, respectively, and both groups saw gains over the pandemic. Poorer Hispanic households were neither solvent nor in debt in 2021, when their median net worth stood at zero.
- Black wealth is increasing, but so is the racial wealth gap - BrookingsBetween 2019 and 2022, median wealth increased by $51,800, but the racial wealth gap increased by $49,950—adding up to a total difference of $240,120 in wealth between the median white...
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