by peralta | Oct 30, 2020 | Speaker Article
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/racism-cost-us-economy-16-trillion-last-20-years-2020-10 Since the start of slavery, racism has cost Black Americans an estimated $70 trillion. Today, thanks to centuries of discrimination, the racial wealth gap...
by peralta | Oct 30, 2020 | Speaker Article
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/what-racism-has-cost-black-americans-black-tax-2020-9 Black Americans face a staggering wealth gap. The most recent statistics show that, in 2016, a typical middle-class white family in the US had $149,703 in...
by peralta | Jul 28, 2020 | Speaker Article
Source: https://afrotech.com/the-black-tax-and-tech-a-conversation-at-afrotech-2019 The Black Tax — defined as the financial cost of discrimination against Black people in the American economic industry deserves its time in the spotlight. This theory developed by...
by peralta | Apr 20, 2020 | News, Speaker Article
On February 27th, AllianceBernstein’s Black Employee Resource Group hosted financial coach and author, Shawn Rochester and over 150 guests for an insightful discussion on Shawn’s recently released book, “The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in...
by peralta | Apr 20, 2020 | News, Speaker Article
Armed with the tools of modern finance, engineer and businessman Shawn Rochester ’97 offers an accounting. Interview by Karen McCally ’02 (PhD) Source: https://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V80N5/0601_rochester.html The premise isn’t new: engineer and business executive...