evidence: Here's one reason why America's racial wealth gap persists across generations [...] The family's financial fortunes show one way that America's stark racial wealth gap has persisted — and even widened — over generations. White adults are more than twice as likely as Black and Latino households to get sizable financial help from parents or other elders. That's according to a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. [...] The racial wealth gap is also evident in lots of other questions in the poll.