Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent
These ten charts show the black-white economic gap hasn’t budged in 50 years
"The wealth gap between minorities and whites has not improved over the past three decades," reports the Urban Institute. "From 1983 to 2010, average family wealth for whites has been about six times that of blacks and Hispanics — the gap in actual dollars growing as average wealth increased for both groups." And the Great Recession exacerbated that gap, as blacks and Hispanics were hit especially hard.
From Pew: "The incarceration rate of black men is more than six times higher than that of white men, slightly larger than the gap in 1960."