*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew Author: Trymaine Lee

*Source: * NYT

*Date:* Aug 14, 2019

*Summary: *The median family wealth for white people is $171,000, compared with just $17,600 for black people" Though blacks make up nearly 13% of the U.S. population, they hold less than 3% of the nation’s total wealth Link: https://nyti.ms/2KU5oCm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library