racial wealth

Why The Racial Wealth Gap Is So Hard To Close

6:30am June 14, 2022

by Greg Rosalsky

A new study shows the simple math of why — absent radical measures — America's racial wealth gap won't be closing anytime soon.

Health & Safety

Can Applesauce Help Close The Racial Health Gap? No, Wait, Hear This Chef Out

7:00am December 17, 2019

by Maria Godoy

From infant mortality rates to access to cancer treatment, stark health disparities exist between blacks and whites. One Michigan experiment to address that starts with money made from hospital food.

A customer approaches the window at Saartj, a pop-up food stall in New Orleans running a social experiment. Customers of color are charged the listed $12 price for a meal. White customers are told about the income gap in New Orleans between whites and Afr

Food Stall Serves Up A Social Experiment: Charge White Customers More Than Minorities

10:17pm March 02, 2018

by Maria Godoy

To highlight racial income disparity, a chef in New Orleans opened a food stall, asking whites to pay $30 and people of color to pay $12 for the same meal. How did it play out?

A study by the think tank Demos finds that black and Latino families with two parents still own only half as much as wealth as white single parents.

Black, Latino Two-Parent Families Have Half The Wealth Of White Single Parents

4:12pm February 08, 2017

by Adrian Florido

New data illustrate how deeply entrenched the racial wealth gap is. The reasons traverse the historical and deliberate exclusion of people of color from economic institutions and government programs.