Black households now earn 61 cents for every dollar in a white household and Latinx households earn 73 cents on the dollar, up from 59 cents and 71 cents, respectively, in 2015.
In this rendition of the West German flag, the normally equal divisions into
black, red and gold have been readjusted; the enamel panel provides the key: the narrow
black and barely discernible red stripes represent respectively the middle class and, in the artist's words, «the remaining
households,» while the gold stripe,
now swollen to 7/8 of the flag, represents big business.
A record 67.6 million American families — including record numbers of
black, Hispanic, and female - headed
households —
now own their homes, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.