Citi estimated that this amount could have been added to the U.S. economy if four major racial gaps had been closed twenty years earlier.
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The cost of leaving opportunity unrealized
In 2020, Citi published Closing the Racial Inequality Gaps: The Economic Cost of Black Inequality in the U.S., examining gaps in wages, education, housing, and investment.
The $16 trillion figure is an estimate of economic growth lost to inequality—not a measurement of the size of the FBA consumer market.
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