- Sanders’s claim that the African-American community ‘lost half of their wealth’ in the Wall Street collapse: Census data from 2005-2011 and Federal Reserve data from 2007-2013 support Sanders’s assertion about such staggering loss in wealth (43 to 53% loss, depending on the time frame and data used) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/02/18/sanderss-claim-that-the-african-american-community-lost-half-of-their-wealth-in-the-wall-street-collapse/ 421 comments politics