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Today, the U.S. white-to-black wealth ratio is roughly 6 to 1—about the same it was in the 1950s.
#PrincetonU 's Ellora Derenoncourt talks to Cardiff Garcia about why the wealth gap persists more than 150 years after Emancipation: apple.co/3CsZjYc