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The asset management industry has a diversity problem

by David Brancaccio
May 4, 2017
A new study shows a women and minorities are largely excluded, managing just 1.1 percent of total assets.
The SEC in August expanded the definition of who can be an accredited investor, which will now allow more people to invest in private equity.
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What's causing the collapse of black-owned businesses?

by Kimberly Adams
Apr 14, 2017
There's been a decline over the past 30 years.
Dr. Martin Luther King addresses civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama. Black-owned businesses helped finance aspects of the civil rights movement, like the Selma to Montgomery march.
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Here's what the wage gap looks like

by Janet Nguyen
Mar 8, 2017
Black women get paid 65 cents for every dollar non-Hispanic white men get paid, while Hispanic women earn 59 cents.
Women march behind a banner as they join other women's rights advocates at an International Women's Day march in downtown Los Angeles, California back in 2015.
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Key for Trump voters? Economic anxiety

by Kimberly Adams
Nov 11, 2016
White people without college degrees feel the pinch.
President-elect Donald Trump meets supporters during election night at the New York Hilton Midtown. 
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Racial bias in preschool

by Dan Gorenstein
Sep 28, 2016
A new study shows teachers watch and discipline black and white kids differently.
A new study found implicit bias against black children present in preschool teaching.
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What's behind the growing black-white pay gap

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Sep 21, 2016
A new study says the wage gap between whites and blacks continues to grow.
A job seeker fills out an application at a career fair in midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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New report examines country's racial wealth divide

by David Brancaccio
Aug 9, 2016
It will take black families 228 years to amass the wealth that white families have today, according to the study's findings.
 A homeless mother holds her daughter while at the Atlantic City Rescue Mission in New Jersey.
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How The Deck Is Stacked

Overcoming racial and economic struggle in Philadelphia, Mississippi

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
Jul 22, 2016
The DNC starts Monday in the other Philadelphia, but we've traveled far from the convention to find out about poverty in the South.
Philadelphia, Mississippi, is known as the fair city with the area’s biggest attractions: the Neshoba County Fair and the Choctaw Indian Fair.
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How The Deck Is Stacked

The other Cleveland: Crossing the divide

by Kai Ryssdal and Tommy Andres
Jul 18, 2016
The Mississippi Delta has the lowest economic mobility of anywhere in the developed world.
Hey Joe’s restaurant, bar, and music venue is a favorite among local Delta State University students. This eatery is one of the newer businesses to occupy downtown Cleveland, Mississippi.
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Smartphones play crucial role for Black Lives Matter

by Kimberly Adams
Jul 11, 2016
For activists, a phone can be both a tool and a symbol.
Erica England uses her smartphone to take pictures of protesters outside the White House.
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