As I feared though, he avoided what I consider to be a key factor in the black/white difference. The great divide in wealth accumulation in America is founded on marriage. Married couples accumulate much more wealth than divorced or never married people do. A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the median married couple in their sixties had ten times more wealth than a typical single person.
This breaks my heart. We are so afraid of telling people the truth. It feels too judgmental. And yet, not knowing the truth is a huge handicap.
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