Darrick Hamilton, founding director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, and principal investigator of the study, said wealth is the foremost metric of financial security, a means for people to have agency, to be self-determining. Hamilton labels it a human rights economy — one where political, civil and social rights combine with economic rights to let a person be authentically free. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/08/02/the-color-of-wealth-chicago/