POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IQ QUIZ #2

Although public discussions of inequality tend to focus on earnings and income, the economic situation of families is also much affected by their wealth, thus making it important to ask whether historic racial differences in wealth are dissipating. Which of the following graphs best describes changes over the last 20 years in the ratio of black to white wealth?

Source: Mishel, Lawrence, Jared Bernstein, and Heidi Shierholz. 2009. The State of Working America 2008/2009. An Economic Policy Institute Book. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press.