{"title":"Wealth Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap","authors":"Aditya Aladangady, Akila Forde","doi":"10.17016/2380-7172.2861","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In the United States, the average Black and Hispanic or Latino households earn about half as much as the average White household and own only about 15 to 20 percent as much net wealth. As we see in Figure 1 below, this wealth gap has widened notably over the past few decades.","PeriodicalId":411218,"journal":{"name":"FEDS Notes","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"18","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"FEDS Notes","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2861","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In the United States, the average Black and Hispanic or Latino households earn about half as much as the average White household and own only about 15 to 20 percent as much net wealth. As we see in Figure 1 below, this wealth gap has widened notably over the past few decades.