The U.S. Black-white wealth gap widened again during the pandemic

Average household wealth for Black and white households, 1989 to 2020

Source: Authors' calculations based on Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, "Distributional Financial Accounts: Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989," available at https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/ (last accessed February 2021); Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, "Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF): 1989, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019," available at https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm (last accessed February 2021).