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Study: Inheritance Is Behind The Racial Wealth Gap

By Haleema Shah

Thursday, February 16, 2017, 4:00pm

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The racial wealth gap between African-Americans and whites is big, and conventional wisdom has often attributed it to college education, family structures, or saving. A new study says those popular assumptions are wrong, and that inheritance has more to do with the wealth gap than previously thought.

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Kate Archer Kent

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Laura Sullivan

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Haleema Shah

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