Download the Fact Sheet [PDF] The growing racial and ethnic wealth gap occurring in the United States is crippling communities of color, including Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) families. This gap is a result of systemic and social barriers that keep people of color from achieving and enjoying economic success. This fact sheet […]
The Racial Wealth Gap: Latinos
Download the Fact Sheet [PDF] The growing racial wealth gap occurring in the United States is crippling communities of color, especially Latino families. This gap is a result of systemic and social barriers that keep people of color from achieving and enjoying economic success. This fact sheet highlights racial disparities in some fundamental economic […]
The Racial Wealth Gap: African Americans
Download the Fact Sheet [PDF] The growing racial wealth gap occurring in the United States is crippling communities of color, especially African American families. This gap is a result of systemic and social barriers that keep people of color from achieving and enjoying economic success. This fact sheet highlights racial disparities in some fundamental […]
Building an Inclusive Economy: How the Better Off Budget Helps People of Color
The racial wealth gap experienced by communities of color represents one of the starkest points of economic inequality in the United States. When more people live in poverty with few or negative assets, our families, communities, democratic institutions, and economy are at risk.
The Chained CPI: Increasing Economic Inequality for African Americans
The Chained CPI: Increasing Economic Inequality for African Americans finds that COLA decreases resulting from the chained CPI will disproportionately harm African Americans who have dramatically fewer sources of wealth to draw upon compared to whites. Almost half of African American seniors rely on Social Security for more than 90 percent of income in retirement due to lower levels of educational attainment, employment, earnings, and ownership of family assets such as homes, investments, savings accounts, businesses and other opportunities to build assets over time that ensure financial security in post-working years.
Plan for a New Future: The Impact of Social Security Reform on People of Color
Read the Report As the United States to a “majority-minority” population over the next three decades, Social Security must be modernized to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse and economically insecure workforce. Although Social Security does not contribute to the federal deficit, Social Security benefit cuts are at the center of discussions in Congress […]
