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How America’s Wealth Gap Shaped the Modern Economy

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White Americans have amassed almost seven times more wealth than Black Americans since the end of the Civil War. In the decades since the modern civil rights movement, that wealth gap has actually widened. This is the story of how the racial wealth gap came to be, and how it has been perpetuated to this very day.

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