The Color of Wealth in Boston
The Color of Wealth in Boston
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波士顿财富的颜色
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2015
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W. Darity
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A. Muñoz;Marlene Kim;M. Chang;Regine O. Jackson;Darrick Hamilton;W. Darity
美国日益扩大的贫富差距是一个令人担忧的迹象，表明全国数百万家庭没有足够的资产为后代提供更好的机会。财富使家庭能够在家庭、教育和创业方面进行投资。根据有色人种社区国家资产记分卡（NASCC）调查收集的数据，我们报告说，按种族分析时，财富积累是非常不平等的。通过NASCC调查，研究人员首次收集了关于亚群资产和债务的详细数据，根据种族，民族和原籍国-公共数据集中通常无法获得的详细信息。在这项分析中，我们专注于估计美国出生的黑人，加勒比黑人，佛得角人，波多黎各人和多米尼加人在波士顿大都会统计区（MSA）。我们的分析表明，在资产和债务的类型和规模方面，白色家庭和非白色家庭的数据显示出很大的差异。其结果是，白人与非白人的净资产相差悬殊。
The widening wealth gap in the United States is a worrisome sign that millions of families nationwide do not have enough in assets to offer better opportunities for future generations. Wealth allows families to make investments in homes, in education, and in business creation. On the basis of data collected using the National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color (NASCC) survey, we report that, when analyzed by race, wealth accumulation is vastly unequal. By means of the NASCC survey, researchers have collected, for the first time, detailed data on assets and debts among subpopulations, according to race, ethnicity, and country of origin — granular detail ordinarily unavailable in public datasets. In this analysis we focus on estimates for U.S. born blacks, Caribbean blacks, Cape Verdeans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans in the Boston Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Our analysis shows that with respect to types and size of assets and debt held, the data collected on white households and nonwhite households exhibit large differences. The result is that the net worth of whites as compared with nonwhites is staggeringly divergent.