228 years. That’s the amount of time it will take for black family wealth to equal that of white family wealth. It’s just 17 years shy of the total amount of time that blacks in this country lived under slavery.
For Latinos, the number is less shocking, but equally dire, at 84 years (source).
In this country, access to wealth translates into access to quality. Quality education. Quality healthcare. Quality transportation. Quality jobs. And as long as the wealth gap persists, black and brown people will continue to have second-class status in this country.READ THE FULL REPORT
