NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have laid bare America’s ongoing racial divide.
One source of that tension is the large financial gap between black and white Americans.
The figures are staggering.
A typical black household has accumulated less than one-tenth of the wealth of a typical white one. And it’s only getting worse.
Over the past 25 years, the wealth gap between blacks and whites has nearly tripled, according to research by Brandeis University.
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