How the "Black Tax" Reinforces Poverty – Mother Jones
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A new study details how "the Black tax" in municipal bonds forces Black communities to pay more for infrasture.
The bond market is not an inherently racist market but, it does not exist in isolation from society at large. As a result, it has acted against the financial interests of municipalities whose residents are predominantly Black.
Scholars in the vanguard of finance, accounting, history and geography are seeing the impact of racial bias and property tax disparities in the $4 trillion U.S. municipal bond market.