Marriage boosted white wealth by $75,000 but not black wealth

Evidence

That’s how our progressive tax system has put cash into the pockets of a majority of white married couples while at the same time taking money out of the pockets of most black married couples for the decades between 1969 and 2017. A study of black and white families over a twenty-five-year period between 1984 and 2009 showed that getting married increased white wealth by more than $75,000, but did nothing to increase black wealth. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 153

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 153