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Disrupting the Racial Wealth Gap
Journal article

Disrupting the Racial Wealth Gap

Melvin L Oliver and Thomas M Shapiro
Contexts (Berkeley, Calif.), Vol.18(1), pp.16-21
02/2019

Abstract

racial wealth gap wealth gap redistribution economic sociology public policy
African-American families possess a dime for every dollar of White families’ wealth. Among policy ideas to remedy this stark racial wealth divide, baby bonds, basic income, reducing student loan debt, and federal job guarantees hold transformative potential.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This output has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:

#8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
#1 No Poverty

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