Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap, released June 18, puts a new focus on underlying issues impacting low-income people like our Lend A Hand clients

by | Sep 3, 2024 | News

The new book traces the family history of several Black Americans back to the 1800s when the wealth gap was 1.8 cents on the dollar in the post-Civil War era. The authors conducted extensive research using sources including “the Federal Reserve’s Consumer...