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Numerous articles have appeared here in recent months about the ways that racial disparities are infused into our financial and economic systems. Two barriers to Latinx and Black workers’ ability to save, for example, are less health insurance coverage and more burdensome student loan payments than White workers have. Or consider the different long-term housing…

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I am neither Black nor Hispanic but can relate in one small way to the difficulty so many people of color have coming up with a down payment for a house. Years ago, as a single person, I didn’t have the cash for a down payment either. But I was able to borrow $10,000 from…