A project by Acumen America

Wealth Gap

Wealth is more than just assets. It’s opportunity. It’s secure housing. It’s access to food, transportation, and jobs. And it’s impacted by race, gender, geography, and more. Here, we look at why the wealth gap is widening and what we can do to reverse that reality.

How the Magnolia Mother’s Trust is changing lives

Here’s what happens when you give working mothers money with no-strings attached. Read More →

By: Catherine Casey Nanda
With:
Springboard to Opportunities
11/04/2022
Roundtable
America’s wealth gap is widening. We can close it.

Examining potential solutions to America’s widening wealth gap.

By: Acumen America
With:
Monique King-Viehland, Lisa Mensah, Michael Tubbs
The Fix
Incarceration leads to generational wealth gaps, here’s how we can start to break that cycle

Incarceration squashes wealth and opportunity across generations. Brian Hill has some ideas about how to change that.

By: Brian Hill
With:
Edovo
The Fix
Lending circles can help Americans build credit and find financial stability

How the Mission Asset Fund has used the global tradition of lending circles to build people’s credit and find secure footing in the mainstream economy.

 

By: José Quiñonez
With:
Mission Asset Fund
The Fix
Social enterprises can help the formerly incarcerated re-enter the workforce and find financial stability

We can better help the formerly incarcerated enter the workforce—and succeed. Here’s how.

By: Carla Javits
With:
REDF
Where to Next
We need to rethink cost-benefit analysis of education, and what we get out of it

The cost-burden of education continues to widen the wealth gap. Angela Ceresnie and Climb Credit want to change that.

By: Angela Ceresnie
With:
Climb Credit
Where to Next
How we can help low-income families better navigate uncertainty

The story of financial uncertainty is a story of financial shocks. Canary CEO Rachel Schneider on how to break that cycle.

By: Rachel Schneider
With:
Canary
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OTHER VOICES

The Life-Altering Differences Between White and Black Debt

The sociologist Louise Seamster discusses America’s student debt crisis and how higher education contributes to the racial wealth gap.

What Is Behind the Persistence of the Racial Wealth Gap?

The ratio of white family wealth to Black family wealth is higher today than at the start of the century.

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