Anonymous ID: ef4c16 July 1, 2021, 11:43 a.m. No.14031047   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1122

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>Abrams defended her financial problems in 2018 and said her debt should not disqualify her for governor of Georgia.

 

>Abrams, who earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, blamed her debt on racism despite making $95,000 a year at her first law firm job.

 

>โ€œRace and gender play a major role in determining just how big of a financial disadvantage weโ€™re likely to face,โ€ Abrams wrote in Fortune.

 

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2010/03/09/Study-finds-median-wealth-for-single-black-women-at-5/stories/201003090163

 

This is a big area of improvement for this group. Even bigger than Big Stacey.

 

 

Women of all races bring home less income and own fewer assets, on average, than men of the same race, but for single black women the disparities are so overwhelmingly great that even in their prime working years their median wealth amounts to only $5.

 

In a groundbreaking report released Monday by a leading economic research group, social scientists turned a spotlight on the grave financial challenges facing an often overlooked group of women, many of whom could not take an unpaid sick day or repair a major appliance without going into debt.

 

"It's rather shocking," said Meizhu Lui, director of the Closing the Gap Initiative based in Oakland, Calif., who contributed to the report "Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth and America's Future."