
How Is This Better? Black Women Are Doubled Taxed in America. There's Data.
Dec 12, 2025
28:24
In a second-term Trump economy obsessed with the word “meritocracy,” Black women are being pushed out of the workforce at alarming rates — while the least qualified men fail upward. Akilah Hughes sits down with economist and author Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman to unpack her book, The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid.
You can find Anna and her book at www.annagifty.com
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:54 Black women & the workforce
07:07 What is the Double Tax?
11:41 How much does Anna’s life show up in the book?
13:58 The DEI crackdown’s impact
17:49 How do we fight for an equitable future?
24:55 This is not better.
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