Employer health insurance coverage is 74 percent for white workers versus 56.5 for black.

Evidence

Employer-provided health insurance provides a safety net against wealth depletion, guarding against huge medical bills and associated debt—or, alternatively, failing health because care is unaffordable, leading to missed work and job insecurity. While the majority of both white and black workers have health insurance through their jobs, the racial discrepancy is still significant—74 percent of white workers compared with 56.5 percent of black workers. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 413

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Employer-provided health insurance protects wealth but reaches whites disproportionately (similarity 0.94)
• White workers are more likely than black workers to have employer-provided retirement accounts (similarity 0.82)
• Black employees participate in retirement plans far less than whites even when offered access (similarity 0.80)
• Equalizing benefit coverage would raise black median wealth by up to 53 percent (similarity 0.79)