2024年10月22日 · Wealth gains partially eroded starting in 2022 as economic headwinds (e.g., inflation, the expiration of pandemic-related support) put pressure on household finances. That said, average wealth outcomes as of the second quarter of 2024 remain elevated relative to prepandemic levels.

2020年1月9日 · As a result, the wealth gap between America’s richest and poorer families more than doubled from 1989 to 2016. In 1989, the richest 5% of families had 114 times as much wealth as families in the second quintile, $2.3 million compared with $20,300.

2024年2月7日 · Black, Hispanic, and high school grad families have seen wealth gains starting in 2016 and continuing through 2022, but wide gaps with higher wealth groups remain.

2023年12月4日 · In dollar amounts, the wealth gap between White households and Black and Hispanic households increased from 2019 to 2021. For example, in 2019, the typical White household had $168,800 more in wealth than the typical Hispanic household. This gap increased to $201,700 in 2021.

2024年2月7日 · The inflation-adjusted wealth of white households in the U.S. grew faster than that of Black and Hispanic households from the start of 2019 through the third quarter of last year, with Black...

Distribution of household wealth for the Top 1% and Bottom 50% in the U.S. since 1989, from the Federal Reserve (Wealth by wealth percentile group (Shares (%))). Colored regions indicate the presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, respectively.

2024年4月25日 · Explore how wealth inequality has varied across race, age, and time in the US over the past 60 years, what’s driving inequities, and how policymakers can close these gaps and help all Americans build wealth.

Public policies that favor white Americans and the wealthy have perpetuated both an extreme concentration of wealth and an extreme racial wealth divide. White households, Federal Reserve data show, held 84.2 percent of all U.S. wealth as of the fourth quarter of 2023, while making up only 66 percent of households.

2019年8月14日 · U.S. wealth and income inequality grew from 1989-2016, with the bottom half of Americans getting left behind. Data also show the racial wealth gap remained essentially unchanged, while generational and educational wealth gaps widened.

2023年12月4日 · Wealth gaps between White households and Black and Hispanic households are greater among lower-income households. There is a wide gulf between the wealth of lower- and upper-income U.S. households. In 2021, the typical upper-income household had a median net worth of $803,400.