Topic Race & Ethnicity

The historical legacy of racial and ethnic discrimination in the United States continues to determine economic outcomes today. Far too often one’s race and ethnicity shape the ways in which one’s characteristics are valued by employers and the economy. Intentional policies have identified winners and losers based on their racial and ethnic background, such as redlining and the lack of enforcement of anti-discrimination laws. Equitable Growth elevates a racial and ethnic lens on the U.S. economy to draw attention to persistent disparate outcomes by race and ethnicity.

Featured work

post

Tariff costs impact industries with mostly White, male, and noncitizen workers

Tax & MacroeconomicsFamiliesInequality & Mobility
In Conversation

In Conversation with Omari Swinton

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
working paper

Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility

Inequality & Mobility
post

New research documents the high cost of residential racial segregation in Northern cities of the United States

Inequality & Mobility
working paper

Wealth of two nations: The U.S. racial wealth gap, 1860-2020

Inequality & Mobility
post

Stratification economics: What it is and how it advances our understanding of inequality

Inequality & Mobility

Explore Content in Race & Ethnicity502

post

Food assistance can disrupt intergenerational poverty in the United States, promoting racial economic equity

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
working paper

The Effectiveness of the Food Stamp Program at Reducing Differences in the Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
post

Proposed update to federal cost-benefit analysis guidelines correctly focuses on accounting for inequality in regulations

Inequality & Mobility
post

Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: April 2023 Report Edition

LaborInequality & Mobility
post

How government reliance on fines and fees harms communities across the United States

Inequality & Mobility
post

Police in public schools harm students, leading to far-reaching socioeconomic inequalities alongside less safe schools

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
post

Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: March 2023 Report Edition

LaborInequality & Mobility
post

Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: February 2023 Report Edition

LaborInequality & Mobility
post

Data infrastructure and tribal sovereignty can help break down barriers for Native Americans to build wealth

Inequality & Mobility
post

Examining the history of the U.S. racial wealth divide shows stagnating progress on closing these disparities

Inequality & Mobility
post

Beauty products for women of color and femme-identifying people of color perpetuate U.S. health and other socioeconomic inequalities

Inequality & Mobility
post

Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: January 2023 Report Edition

LaborInequality & Mobility
Connect with us!

Explore the Equitable Growth network of experts around the country and get answers to today's most pressing questions!

Get in Touch