Income Inequality and Black Wealth: Opinions from Metro Atlanta Speaks. 

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By Jim Skinner

Black History Month draws to a close next week.  This month’s responsive series of blog posts exploring racial disparities concludes with a focus on two more questions in the  Metro Atlanta Speaks (MAS) survey  Responses to these provide unique data on our residents’ opinions (and knowledge) about income inequality and the Black: White racial income gap. To sum up the findings before we “dive deeper”, the answers show that (a) residents agree that we as a region have a problem with economic equality, but also that (b) they don’t begin to grasp the breadth of a racial wealth gap that exemplifies that problem. As such, a reasonable concern exists that our region might struggle to grapple with the extent of possible policy interventions that might be needed to address the problem(s).

For the first time this year, MAS included a question measuring attitudes on damage created by income inequality. There appears high agreement about the negative effects of such–though there is more awareness in non-White demographic groups…