Season 5, Episode 4 - Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It

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Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Dorothy A. Brown discuss the impact of tax policies on racial wealth disparities in the U.S.

Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and tax policy expert Professor Dorothy A. Brown for a thought-provoking discussion of her books, The Whiteness of Wealth and Getting to Reparations. Drawing on decades of research, Brown examines how seemingly race-neutral tax policies have contributed to widening racial wealth disparities in the United States and explores what meaningful economic repair could look like in practice. Together, they discuss how the U.S. tax system has historically ...

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Host: Jeffrey Sachs

Guest: Dorothy A. Brown

Topics covered

• tax policy
• racial wealth disparities
• economic repair
• race-neutral policies
• reparations

Keywords

• tax system
• Black Americans
• wealth disparities
• economic repair
• racial equity

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Books & works: The Whiteness of Wealth, Getting to Reparations

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