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  • New Study Suggests Black Middle-Class Families May Have Zero Wealth in a Few Decades

    Because of legalized segregation, job discrimination and racist housing policies, it’s not surprising that black and Latinx families haven’t had the same opportunities to amass wealth as white families have. But a new study—and an accompanying op-ed by one of its researchers—reveal that black and Latinx families have actually lost wealth over the last 30…

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    Anne Branigin

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  • Attending College Doesn’t Close Wage Gap, and Other Myths Exposed in New Report

    Since the first iteration of slavery transformed into its more contemporary forms—Jim Crow, mass incarceration, redlining, employment and education discrimination—the toxic myth that black people can bootstrap their way to success and safety in a country that thrives on their subjugation has continued to thrive. In a new report, “Asset Value of Whiteness,” Demos and the…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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