Inequality

When children grow up in high-poverty neighborhoods, commonly a legacy of residential segregation by race, they are less likely to thrive as adults. One way to improve their future success is by helping their families move to neighborhoods with less poverty and more resources. But voucher programs alone won’t help.

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 35: The Economics of Racial Discrimination from CEE's Understanding Economics in U.S. History publication. In this lesson the students examine Jim Crow segregation laws and discuss the costs of racial segregation. They examine an economic mystery about segregation, using the Guide to Economic Reasoning. Finally, they read and discuss an essay about Homer Plessy and Rosa Parks. During the late 1800s and throughout the first half of the twentieth century, racial segregation was enforced throughout the South by legislation and by informal codes...

A deeper look at the racial wealth gap and economic inequality in the United States.

Detroit boiled over this week as protesters took to the streets for mostly nonviolent demonstrations against police brutality. But the cries of racism extend long past policing policies in a city where recent health crises and economic recovery then fallout have been uneven. Black Detroiters…

A pair of economics professors did a deep dive into the racial wealth gap in the U.S. during the past 40 years, and the findings are not encouraging, especially for Black workers in Michigan.

Both races make less than they did 40 years ago when adjusted for inflation. But wages for Black workers have declined more since the 1970s, in part because of a loss of manufacturing and widening

The trend is on track to exacerbate dramatic wealth and income gaps in the U.S., where divides are already wider than any other nation in the G-7.

Redlining in New Deal America