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Happy Juneteenth everyone!! 🙌🏾 While I am logging off to celebrate progress and liberation, I’d be remiss if I didn’t remind someone that the abolition of slavery was said to usher in freedom and equality under the law. Yet, EIGHT generations later.... 💵The median wealth of Black families is $45,000, compared to $287,000 for white families. Black families holds 16 cents for every dollar of white median wealth. ( Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances, 2022) 🏡The homeownership rate for Black Americans is about 30 percentage points lower than that for white Americans. (Urban Institute, 2018) 🔒Black men are imprisoned at a rate of 1,807 per 100,000, compared to 312 per 100,000 for white men. (Prison Policy Initiative, 2021) 📖Black college graduates owe, on average, $25,000 more in student loan debt than white graduates.(Brookings Institution, 2016) 📤 Black workers earn, on average, 23% less than their white counterparts. (Economic Policy Institute, 2019)
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3w+ Especially honoring the folk who are striving to change these statistics within their personal and work lives. 👏🏾 Keep going!