Wealthier New Yorkers are more likely to report better health and less psychological distress, while Black and Latino ...

That gap can grow over time. For white baby boomers who are now in their 70s, their family wealth is an average of $1.4 million more than Black families, compared to a gap of nearly $182,000 when they ...

Over 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, the median white family has 70 times more wealth than typical black families. … A recent study by the Pew Research Center used data ...

Illinois in the top ten for largest racial wealth gaps. Disparities in income, education and poverty drive the state’s racial wealth gap.

A white acquaintance who grew up wealthy in the South in the 1940s had the family gardener’s son, an African-American boy, as his earliest best friend. He remembers vividly what happened when he asked ...

Adam Serwer, in his blog at the American Prospect, unpacks the results of a study on the growing racial wealth gap in America. Yesterday, the Pew Research Center released its report on the racial ...

Knowledge is power, and knowledge about money can lead to wealth. But there's a disconnect between who gets that knowledge and who is able to save — especially since the start of the pandemic. The ...

The wealth gap between white Americans and Black and Hispanic Americans continues to widen, according to new data analyzed by WalletHub using federal statistics. Wealth disparities don’t just affect ...

As far back as the 1930s, the ACLU affirmed that economic justice was essential to achieving racial justice. In its 1931 Black Justice report, the organization’s first on the civil liberties of Black ...

The racial wealth gap between median Black and white households has remained virtually unchanged from 1992 to 2022, according to a recent National Community Reinvestment Coalition ...