Despite increases in Black business ownership, elected office, and university enrollment, a new study indicates that the wealth disparity between U.S. Blacks and Whites has been widening.
The alarming report, whose findings prove the economic racial divide has not lessened since Jim Crow, is the result of a study by The Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan think tank. Titled “Systematic Inequality: How America’s Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap,” the study cites elements of systemic U.S. racism such as slavery, racial segregation, housing discrimination and criminal justice biases as helping to create and perpetuate persistent wealth disparities…
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