Married black couples face marriage penalties at far higher rates than white couples

Evidence

Some black households meet the single-wage-earner ideal, but a far greater percentage does not. The numbers are stark. Once household income rises above 60,000, there are more than twice as many black marriage-penalty households than marriage-bonus ones. Once household income exceeds 80,000, there are more than three times as many. At $100,000, it’s four times as many. We never see this large a gap in white households. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 149

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the reader’s goal of naming specific tax-code mechanisms (the marriage penalty) that widen the racial wealth gap — this is one of the concrete provisions to carry forward.