Income Gap

Equal Pay Day 2024 is on Tuesday, March 12, and marks the current state of the gender pay gap for women. This symbolic day is used to raise awareness around and combat the impact of pay inequities.

Alabama’s gender wage gap is one of the largest in America, where white women are paid only 67 cents for every dollar a white man earns. Black and Hispanic women are paid less, making only 52 cents and 41 cents, respectively. In today’s edition of Crunk Culture, Robin Boylorn discusses the gender and racial wage gaps on a broader scale and provides some actions that can be taken to help narrow those gaps.

In our previous episode of Crunk Culture, Robin Boylorn discussed how student loan forgiveness could provide opportunities for people of color to build wealth. In today’s segment, she explains how those financial opportunities are hindered by the Black Tax phenomenon.

The 2015 legislative session starts tomorrow. All eyes are on Governor Robert Bentley and what’s expected to be a politically unpopular tax increase…