The racial wealth gap has widened since the Great Recession

Average household wealth by race, 1989–2019

Source: Wealth data are from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, "Distributional Financial Accounts," available at https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/efa/efa-distributional-financial-accounts.htm (last accessed November 2019). The data are deflated using the price index for personal consumption expenditures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, "National Income and Product Accounts," available at https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm (last accessed November 2019). The number of households is taken from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, "Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF)," available at https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm (last accessed November 2019). Missing observations are linearly interpolated.