Wealth measurement: Issues for people of color in the United States

Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 23-66

  Leigh, Wilhelmina A ^a  

^a Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies   (United States)

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