Government Information Diversity Resources

A crucial component to social inclusion is financial well-being. Some groups in the U.S. have historically faced disproportionate levels of poverty, which has been detrimental to well-being and access to essentials such as food and housing. This report on U.S. racial inequality published by the Treasury Department in 2022 contains information about financial racial disparities. Economic data about U.S. gender inequality are found in this 2024 report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics about women's earnings during the previous year.

U.S. federal policymakers have sought to confront financial inequalities as early as 1865, when congress created the Freedmen's Bureau to provide economic assistance, including job programs and financial relief, for formerly enslaved people. Similar efforts include the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits pay discrimination on the basis of sex, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. The About page of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a government body that enforces federal anti-discrimination laws concerning employment, includes information about some of the steps that the U.S. takes to implement diversity-related economic policy. Listed below are some resources about federal diversity efforts concerning financial matters, and about ongoing efforts to combat U.S. economic inequalities.