A study by the think tank Demos finds that black and Latino families with two parents still own only half as much as wealth as white single parents. David McNew/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David McNew/Getty Images Code Switch Black, Latino Two-Parent Families Have Half The Wealth Of White Single Parents February 8, 2017 New data illustrate how deeply entrenched the racial wealth gap is. The reasons traverse the historical and deliberate exclusion of people of color from economic institutions and government programs.