Focus on the Wealth Divide:
Additional resources
Our Racism and the Economy: Focus on the Wealth Divide event focuses on how racialized barriers to wealth accumulation deny families and communities long-term economic mobility and financial resiliency. Wealth is usually defined as the value of one’s assets minus debt, and it serves as a critical component of economic opportunity in the United States.
Jump to: Session papers & proposals | Documenting and explaining household wealth disparities | Structural racism and wealth inequality | Solutions to racial wealth divides
Session papers & proposals
Racism & the Economy: Focus on the Wealth Divide Policy Brief
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These papers go into greater detail on the proposals presented by the authors during the Racism and the Economy: Focus on the Wealth Divide event.
The Racial Wealth Gap
Keynote paper | Mehrsa Baradaran, University of California, Irvine, School of Law
A Wealth Tax Credit: My Second-Best Proposal
Proposal PDF | Dorothy Brown, Emory University
The Heirs Property Advocacy Institute – Helping Heirs Property Owners Convert their Land from a Loss Liability to a Legacy through Heir-Centered Advocacy
Proposal PDF | Dãnia Davy, Federation of Southern Cooperatives
A Participatory Approach to Local Economic Development in BIPOC Communities: Appreciating the True Value of Communities’ Assets | Moving Beyond Merely Home Ownership to All Ownership
Proposal PDF | Nia Evans, Boston Ujima Project
Systemic Racism and the Dispossession of Indigenous Wealth in the United States
Keynote paper | Matthew Fletcher, Michigan State University
Documenting and explaining household wealth disparities
‘Parasite,’ COVID-19, and U.S. Wealth Inequality
Blog Post | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Disparities by Race, Ethnicity and Education Underlie Millennials’ Comeback in Wealth
Blog Post | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
A Wealth of Information: Augmenting the Survey of Consumer Finances to Characterize the Full U.S. Wealth Distribution
Discussion Paper | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Changes in U.S. Family Finances from 2016 to 2019: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
Bulletin | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Disparities in Wealth by Race and Ethnicity in the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances
Blog Post | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016
Working Paper | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality
Working Paper | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Money in the Bank? Assessing Families’ Liquid Savings Using the Survey of Consumer Finances
Blog Post | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Puzzlingly Divergent Trends in Household Wealth and Business Formation
Article | Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
The Real State of Family Wealth: Will COVID-19 Worsen Racial, Educational and Generational Gaps in the U.S.?
Blog Post | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Understanding 100 Years of the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the U.S.: What Is the Role of Family Firms?
Report | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Wealth Concentration in the United States Using an Expanded Measure of Net Worth
Working Paper | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Wealth Gaps between White, Black and Hispanic Families in 2019
Blog Post | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The Black-White Racial Wealth Gap
Report | Thurgood Marshall Institute and Institute on Assets and Social Policy
Clipped Wings: Closing the Wealth Gap for Millennial Women
Report | Asset Funders Network
Wealth Gaps between White, Black and Hispanic Families in 2019
Blog Post | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The Black-White Racial Wealth Gap
Report | Thurgood Marshall Institute and Institute on Assets and Social Policy
Clipped Wings: Closing the Wealth Gap for Millennial Women
Report | Asset Funders Network
Structural racism and wealth inequality
The Effects of the 1930s HOLC Redlining Maps
Working Paper | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Reparations and Persistent Racial Wealth Gaps
Working Paper | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Turning the Floodlights on the Root Causes of Today’s Racialized Economic Disparities
Field Note | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Solutions to racial wealth divide
Thrivers and Strugglers: A Growing Economic Divide
Publication | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The Future of Building Wealth: Brief Essays on the Best Ideas to Build Wealth—for Everyone
Book | Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis and Aspen Institute
Fintech, Racial Equity and Inclusive Financial System
Publication | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Don’t Fixate on the Racial Wealth Gap: Focus on Undoing Its Root Causes
Report | The Roosevelt Institute
What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
Report | Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity & Insight, Center for Community Economic Development
