claim: "over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared."
author: donna brazile
evidence_1: jun 27, 2016 ... and in terms of their median net worth, white households are about 13 times as  wealthy as black households – a gap that has grown wider since the .... and  whites has also persisted over the past four decades; hispanic median  household income ($34,000) was 67% that of whites in 1970, the first year that ...
evidence_2: "over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared." —  politifact national on wednesday, august 24th, 2011. half-true. different polls  reach different conclusions. this week - abc news · paul krugman · "the  average republican voter thinks there should be some revenue as part of this  deal.".
evidence_3: jul 26, 2011 ... from 2005 to 2009, inflation-adjusted median wealth fell by 66% among  hispanic households and 53% among black households, compared with just 16 % among white households. as a result of these declines, the typical black  household had just $5,677 in wealth (assets minus debts) in 2009; the typical ...
evidence_4: oct 12, 2014 ... a full 29.5 percent of people over the age of 25 hold bachelor's degrees—slightly  higher than the 28.5 percent rate for all persons in the united states. .... or a one- to-four unit rental property; and, finally, applicants must not have been “convicted  in the last 10 years of felony larceny, theft, fraud, or forgery, ...
evidence_5: jan 19, 2014 ... progress over the past 50 years has been "breathtaking and unimaginable," says  civil rights lawyer ted shaw, former president of the naacp legal defense and  educational fund and a professor at columbia university school of law.  nevertheless, he says, even the election of a black president "doesn't ...