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Racial and economic inequality are two of the most pressing social issues that American society currently deals with. The Institute for Policy Studies and the Corporation for Enterprise Development released a report outlining the current state and found the racial wealth gap has grown steadily, and “without changes in public policy,” it could widen in the coming decades.
In discussing economic inequities, the report found that the focus is often on one single facet: income. The new report, entitled The Ever-Growing Gap, focused its attention on a related, but distinct facet of the issue: wealth. The role that wealth plays in achieving financial security and opportunity is a key factor in overall economic equity.
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This growing wealth divide, according to the report, in the absence of significant reforms, are on track to become even wider in the future. Over the past 30 years the average wealth of white families has grown by 84%; this is 1.2 times the rate of growth for the Latino population.
By 2043, the year in which minorities are projected to make up a majority of the U.S. population, the wealth divide between white families and Latino and black families will have doubled, on average, from about $500,000 in 2013 to over $1 million.
You can read more about the report here.
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