Wealth Concentration

Our second Gilded Age isn’t as enchanting as Condé Nast and celebrity spectacle make it seem – but a red carpet parade while event workers struggle for dignified treatment epitomizes the era.

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Over the course of a century, white farmers and landowners developed tax and property law schemes that allowed them to strip African Americans of their land.

There are better ways to close the racial wealth gap while giving a leg up to Americans of every color.