racial wealth gap

The COVID-19 pandemic and America’s reckoning on racial justice and equity have amplified demands for companies to do more to solve deep systemic problems.

Corporate governance may not commit physical violence against people of color, but its very design causes real harm.

We have failed to provide people with basic financial security. Black people have unequivocally faced the brunt of this failure.

The research of Harvard economist Raj Chetty shows that the scale of inequality is incredibly small.

Innovations of all sizes will be needed to create opportunities for struggling Americans.

From the 2017 Aspen Institute Summit on Inequality & Opportunity, featuring Bill Bynum (HOPE), José Quiñonez (Mission Asset Fund), Tom Shapiro (Brandeis University), & Gillian White (The Atlantic).

Entrepreneurial success will be one valuable outcome from addressing wealth and educational disparities faced by African-Americans and Latinos. Universal policies to narrow the racial wealth gap will help to realize the promise that business ownership holds for addressing inequalities.