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wealth-chasm

By rafael | Published March 19, 2011 | Full size is 500 × 471 pixels

While all women experience the wealth gap with their male peers, the gap between single black women and white women is a chasm, according to Lifting As We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth, and America’s Future, a report by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. Based on 2007 data, the most recent available, single black women have just a fraction of a penny for every dollar of wealth of single white women. (See related article.)"

While all women experience the wealth gap with their male peers, the gap between single…

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