[lbo-talk] A $95, 000 question: why are whites five times richer than blacks in the US?

[Eric Beck]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On May 18, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Eric Beck wrote:
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>> A $95,000 question: why are whites five times richer than blacks in the
>> US?
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> Inheritance, mostly.

Really? I wondered if that accounted for it, but didn't dig into it
too much. I knew that income differential hadn't increased that much.