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Two years ago this month, Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking months of sustained protests and helping to ignite the Black Lives Matter movement. While police violence and inequities in our criminal justice system have dominated the discussion of our racial divide since then, there’s a lot more to the story.
Less covered — but just as startling — is the stark racial economic divide in this country.
In a new report called “The Ever-Growing Gap,” my co-authors and I examine 30 years’ worth of data on the wealth divide between white, black and Latino families. Even we were shocked at just how wide the chasm has become — and how much wider it’s going to get if we don’t do something about it.
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