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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