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Inside the island fortress of America's mega-billionaires
It's America's wealthiest town. Approach at your own peril.
Guthrie Scrimgeour
4 mins read
Rich millennials like Leo from 'LIB' can come off as arrogant when talking about their wealth — but there's a better way to disclose your income on dates
On "Love Is Blind," Leo opens up about his wealth while saying it makes him insecure in dating. Men…
Julia Pugachevsky,Palmer Haas…
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Americans who locked in a job, home, and stocks are thriving. Everyone else missed out on their ticket to wealth.
Americans who locked up jobs, homes, and stocks a few years ago have seen their wealth balloon. Eve…
Jacob Zinkula,Madison Hoff
1 min read
People of color pay higher rental fees than their white peers, report finds
Black, Latinx, and Asian and Pacific Islander tenants on average paid higher security deposits than…
DeArbea Walker
13 mins read
Inside the tech industry's 'broletariat revolution' against the media
Tech elites hate the media. So they're taking a page from Fox News.
Insider Inc.
4 mins read
A Black couple who retired early says there's a 'Black tax' on common wealth-building strategies
Julien and Kiersten Saunders say there's a "Black tax" in the FIRE movement that ignores individual…
Leo Aquino
3 mins read
The economic recovery is booming, but Black women are still getting left behind
In February, fewer Black women were actively looking for work and more were unemployed, even as rec…
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff
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Giving new babies a savings account can help curb wealth gaps and make college feasible. One Democrat wants to make it federal law.
Senator Bob Casey's proposal for automatic savings accounts for every kid in the US plays on a popu…
Juliana Kaplan
4 mins read
Fintechs helped Black-owned small businesses get access to PPP loans during the pandemic more than banks did. It's weird.
A working paper finds automation may have helped Black businesses's access to PPP loans, but AI als…
Madison Hoff
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Biden could wipe out 30 million student-loan borrowers' debt loads with $50,000 in relief but $10,000 would still turn a third of their balances to zero
Data provided by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's office also found that $10,000 in student-loan forgiveness…
Ayelet Sheffey
4 mins read
I expect to retire, but as an African American woman, the numbers make me wonder if I should plan for a funeral instead
Planning for retirement is different when years of data show that Black Americans are statistically…
Angie Chatman
2 mins read
The uneven impact of the $1.7 trillion student debt crisis on Black Americans is 'entirely unsustainable,' Chuck Schumer and NAACP's Derrick Johnson say
The racial wealth divide will not subside "so long as student debt continues to grow at its current…
Ayelet Sheffey
5 mins read
2 steps to take right now to build generational wealth for years to come
Financial literacy is the key to creating generational wealth. Build a team to help you maximize yo…
Ronda Lee
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The homeownership gap between Black and white Americans hasn't been this wide in 100 years
Despite anti-discrimination laws passed in the 1960s, it's "a market failure" says one researcher —…
Jason Lalljee
2 mins read
WATCH: Experts discuss race, wealth-building, and closing the racial wealth gap once and for all
Join Business Insider reporter Taylor Nicole Rogers and expert guests for a live conversation on cl…
Business Insider
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Black Americans' rocky relationship with banks can be traced back to an institution that promised wealth but collapsed after just 9 years
Frederick Douglass said the collapse of the Freedman's Bank "was equivalent to adding another 10 ye…
Angie Chatman
3 mins read
Businesses are desperate to hire, but Black workers' unemployment went up in August: 'It's not that you can't find anybody - you can't find the people you want'
It's "the self-evident discrimination in the labor market revealing itself," Howard University prof…
Juliana Kaplan,Andy Kiersz
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Paid family leave is one of the most glaring cuts in Biden's slimmed-down economic agenda, and it could leave women and families of color behind
"It's really critical to making sure that all women can participate in the workforce," Jocelyn Frye…
Madison Hoff,Juliana Kaplan
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Self-employed people are 4 times wealthier than workers, on average
Wages for American workers have been shrinking for decades. Their self-employed peers tend to have …
Juliana Kaplan
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Black homeowners in Houston say they're still patching up holes in their floors nearly five years after Hurricane Harvey
After hurricane Harvey, paperwork requirements and other rules made many Black homeowners in Housto…