Without significant policy reform in America, it would take 228 years for black families to amass the wealth that white families have today, according to a new study.

The Corporation for Enterprise Development and Institute for Policy Studies published its findings Monday from a study of 30 years of Federal Reserve data which include pension, income and demographic statistics. The report argues that tax policies overwhelmingly favor white, wealthy families and turn a blind eye to low-income families.

Over 30 years, the average wealth of white families has grown by 84 percent, which is three times the growth of the black population and 1.2 times that of the Latino population, the study finds. If black and Latino populations continue to grow at the same rate, it would take them 228 years and 84 years, respectively, to close the wealth gap as it stands now but the divide continues to grow.

According to the study:

While housing has been a major driver in the growth of the racial wealth divide, Black and Latino households have also faced numerous other economic inequities that are impacting their wealth position. At the root of this are a number of discriminatory practicesincluding, among others, employment discrimination, racial discrimination in the criminal justice system, housing segregation and unequal access to educational opportunitiesthat have continued into the present even as some acts of past discrimination decline.

The gap got a bit smaller in the years leading up to the Great Recession, but in the past 30 years has exploded as black and Latino communities have been hit by foreclosures and job cuts.

Were not going in the right direction , Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, the director of CFEDs Racial Wealth Divide Project, told The Wall Street Journal.

The numbers are perhaps not surprising the most recent Pew Research Center numbers from 2013 put the difference between the average black and white families at $131,000. The Huffington Posts Ben Walsh reported that the poorest black families are much poorer than low-income white families; 25 percent of black families had less than $5 in savings compared to $375 or less for the bottom quarter of white families.