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Brad Lander: “My office did the very first study ever of the racial wealth…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Discusses Immigration, Income Disparity, and Coalition Building on The Breakfast Club

Published | Video Starts at 05:28

But this is a urgent moment and I think it's a time to show up. Why not focus on income disparity? Believe me, I focus on income disparity. So My office did the very first study ever of the racial wealth gap in New York. And what we found is it's 9 to 1 in the rest of the country, 15 to 1 here. Median white household in New York has a household net worth of $280,000. (05:28–05:33)

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Asserts that the Comptroller's office conducted the first study on New York's racial wealth gap.

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