Household wealth in the U.S. increased during the pandemic but, much like the situation before COVID-19, there remains a large disparity of this wealth between the country's poorest and richest people.
According to a recent Pew Research Center study, which used data from the Census Bureau’s 2020, 2021 and 2022 Surveys of Income and Program Participation, households with more wealth saw an increase in wealth of about $57,800 from 2019 to 2021. Richer households added $172,000 to their net worth.
