Even during the boom-time final stretch of a record economic expansion, the typical White family had eight times the wealth of a typical Black family in 2019, and five times the wealth of a ...

Ethnicity and the Economy at the EPI and a co-author of the report. Related: Milwaukee's staggering black-white divide Studies have shown that applicants with "black sounding names" like Jamal are ...

Recent clashes in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray have shined yet another light on the mounting tensions between black communities and police in America's cities. But it is far from the ...