Black America Needs a ‘New Normal’: Equitable Credit Access to Build Wealth – Observer News Group

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Black America Needs a ‘New Normal’: Equitable Credit Access to Build Wealth – Observer News Group

Although many officials have called for a ‘return to normal’, millions of small businesses and communities need something new instead. In Black America especially, the ‘old normal’ never delivered equitable access to wealth-building opportunities as those that well-served served much of White America. Instead, a lengthy history of public policies designed to create and sustain a burgeoning middle class systemically excluded Blacks and other people of color.

Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

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