Meanwhile the average wealth of the bottom 99% fell by $4,500.

Student debt levels for young adults kept on rising in 2016.

Racial reparations will not work without simultaneous class leveling.

Solving wealth inequality will require drastic economic changes.

Inheritance is a major driver of wealth inequality in the US.

Closing the racial wealth gap will require intentional redistribution.

Median black wealth drops to $4,000 if you exclude vehicles.

Typical approaches to visualizing the racial wealth gap all have problems.

The top 1 percent of Latino families own 45 percent of Latino wealth.

White wealth remains massively higher than black wealth overall.