Reports

African American Financial Capability Initiative: An Implementation Blueprint

This blueprint emphasizes income disparity and wealth inequality for African Americans that transfers to multi-generational poverty. It's implementation guid...

May 4, 2020

The Economic Impact of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

This report is the first of a series of publications on the racial wealth gap and how to better close it. Many areas of interest include repairing Black empl...

May 4, 2020

Opportunity Since 1970: A Historical Report

This publication serves as a historical opportunity index that explores opportunity, access income inequality, and barrier factors in obtaining the true Amer...

April 23, 2020

Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap

This paper explores popular explanations for the racial wealth gap and their data driven legitimacy in wealth talk in the US. Researching historic injustices...

April 23, 2020

Policy Agenda for Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

This publication and data graphic explore the necessarily methods to closing the racial wealth gap. The guide provides short, intermediate and long term goal...

April 23, 2020

Color of Entrepreneurship: Why the Racial Gap among Firms Costs the US Billions

This report emphasizes the important role of businesses owned by people of color in restoring financial health post-Great Recession. This report documents ch...

April 23, 2020

Beyond Broke: Why Closing the Racial Wealth Gap is a Priority for National Economic Security

This report explores the gap within the racial wealth gap through the exploration of liquid wealth. It analyzes how to better diversity wealth, especially in...

April 23, 2020

Racial Wealth Gap: Narrowing the Racial Wealth Gap through Business Ownership

This brief explores the racial wealth gap as it relates to Black and Latino business owners. It also investigates Native American business ownership and chal...

April 23, 2020

Political Economy of Education, Financial Literacy, and the Racial Wealth Gap

The article consists of examinations of political discourse around the racial wealth gap. Included in that exploration is discussion of the impact of individ...

April 21, 2020

Color of Wealth in Los Angeles

This report explores the findings of the National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color (NASCC) survey reveals wealth disparities among racial groups in L...

April 21, 2020

Black Women Business Startups

This report summarizes a study of 34 black women business owners by the Federal Reserve of Kansas City. Key findings include that growth of the rate of busin...

April 21, 2020

Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the US

This study uses different data sets to better understand racial economic status gap between blacks and whites through an intergenerational perspective. This ...

April 21, 2020

Color of Wealth in Boston

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's analysis of the wealth gap emphasizes the inequality of wealth accumulation based on race. The report findings stress the de...

April 21, 2020