• The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. (Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times.) • The black-white income gap is roughly 40 percent greater today than it was in 1967. • A black boy born today in the United States has a life expectancy five years shorter than that of a white boy.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:30:29 +0000
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