The ethnic inequalities have cost the US more than $ 50 trillion in 30 years

Racial and ethnic inequalities have cost the US economy more than $ 50 trillion in 30 years. The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Mary Daly, said this week. According to Daly, who was one of the four authors of the report, the large and persistent cross-ethnic gap in employment, education, and income "is one of the reasons that is shrinking the economic pie for Americans." The report maps what gross domestic product (GDP) would be if these ethnic differences in the labor market did not exist. For example, the employment of black Americans has long been lower than that of white Americans and non-black Americans. The incomes of both African Americans and Hispanics lag behind those of white Americans. Daly and other authors of the report calculated how much GDP would increase if racial and ethnic inequalities were eliminated: if there were no employment disparities, if the same percentage of non-white people had graduated from college, and if earnings were on the same level as white Americans. In this regard, Daly said that between 1990 and the end of 2019, the United States lost about $ 51 trillion (€ 43.07 trillion) due to inequalities. In the case of employment alone, eliminating inequalities would provide the United States with an additional $ 22.9 trillion between 1990 and 2019. Especially in recent years, the benefits would be significant, as the proportion of non-white Americans in the population has increased. However, inequalities remained at about the same level as in the past.