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Why wealth equality remains out of reach for black Americans

  • Written by Darrick Hamilton, Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University
When it comes to wealth, black families still lag far behind in the U.S.Twinsterphoto/shutterstock.com

Black History Month has become the time to reflect on all the progress black Americans have made, but the sobering reality is that when it comes to wealth – the paramount indicator of economic security – there has been virtually no...

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