Never-Married Black Women Own 8 Cents for $1 Held by White Men
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Two categories of people have the least wealth in the US, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Black and Hispanic women who have never married.
The research focused on the 23% of adults who have never been married, which strips out any outside sources of wealth that could come from being divorced or widowed, for instance. That population has significantly less wealth than married couples, according to St. Louis Fed research.