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Princeton University’s Eddie Glaude Jr., Operation HOPE’s John Hope Bryant and other leaders and scholars join The Post to discuss the factors that have allowed the racial wealth gap to endure and ...

On average, Black Americans earn less than their white counterparts, which adds extra hurdles to accumulating wealth. The racial wealth gap has its roots in slavery and racist policies that Black ...

Stocks are increasingly an important source of household wealth. Thanks to the booming stock market, U.S. household wealth surged to a record high last year, per Federal Reserve data. Yet data also ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For many young Black Americans, affording a home or college can feel like an impossible dream. But in the U.S. capital, local officials think they may ...

New research from the Center for Retirement Research suggests will writing could help reduce the racial wealth gap between Black and White households in the United States. According to a brief ...

The term "racial wealth gap" technically refers to the difference in assets owned by various racial or ethnic groups but this ...

Comptroller Brooke Lierman released a report outlining the potential for Maryland to adopt a statewide baby bonds program.

The following excerpt is adapted from Howard Husock’s ‘The Projects: A New History of Public Housing,’ a forthcoming book from NYU Press. We hear a great deal about what’s called the black-white ...

A pioneering Black-owned nonprofit organization is taking direct aim at persistent economic disparities through an innovative approach to financial education. Junior Wallstreeters has developed a ...

Reducing the disparity in will-writing between Black and white households would shrink the racial wealth gap in America, according to a new study. "It's a pretty easy thing to do to write a will — ...