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Healthy US economy failed to narrow racial gaps in 2019

by AP Economics Writer
| September 29, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The solid growth that the United States enjoyed before the viral pandemic paralyzed the economy this spring failed to reduce racial disparities in Americans' income and wealth from 2016 through 2019, the Federal Reserve said Monday.

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