Households: Ta-Nehisi Piece and Families

households: In Ta-Nehisi Coates' 2014 piece for The Atlantic titled The Case for Reparations, he wrote, Black families, regardless of income, are significantly less wealthy than white families, according to MSNBC. The Pew Research Center estimates that white households are worth roughly 20 times as much as black households, and that whereas only 15 percent of whites have zero or negative wealth, more than a third of blacks do. According to the New York Times, black families in America earn 57.30 for every 100 in income white families earn, and black families hold 5.04 in wealth for every 100 in white family wealth. Effectively, the black family in America is working without a safety net. While the subject has not been popular among candidates in the past both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton refrained from endorsing reparations it's become a common question asked of the 2020 prospects. When financial calamity strikes a medical emergency, divorce, job loss the fall is precipitous. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.