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title: Retiring While Black
date: 2023-03-15T03:00:00-04:00
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[Health & Sexuality Info](/health-info)# Retiring While Black

Systemic racial inequalities mean that Black people face greater disparities when it comes to generational wealth, financial growth, home buying, and maxing out retirement accounts. A range of approaches to address this issue are discussed. One intriguing idea is creating “baby bonds,” or small trust accounts set up by the U.S. government that are automatically given to every newborn infant. Note: While this article doesn’t address the issue from a feminist perspective, it has important information for everyone wanting to take steps to shore up their own personal retirement security.

> For many Black Americans attempting to balance their day-to-day finances and retirement planning, the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout have been disproportionately bad news. Forty-four percent of Black Americans said either they or a member of their household experienced job or wage loss, according to a 2020 Pew Research Center study.All of these problems and more—systemic oppression and bias in housing, healthcare access, and educational opportunity, as well as employment and wage inequality—have combined to make retirement insecurity a pressing issue for Blacks, says Shawn D. Rochester, author of The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America. ‘This anti-Black bias manifests itself in the form of discriminatory behavior that results in a quantitative economic cost which has an intergenerational effect on Black Americans at all levels and dramatically increases retirement insecurity,’ he says.

[Read the full article ](https://www.consumerreports.org/money/retirement-planning/retiring-while-black-advice-from-black-seniors-for-a-path-to-financial-security-a4230396465/)

SOURCE: Consumer Reports • AUTHOR: Brian Vines • LAST UPDATED: April 13, 2021

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- [ growing older](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/growing-older)
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- [ bipoc aging](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/themes/bipoc-aging)
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- [BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color)](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/bipoc-black-indigenous-and-people-of-color)
- [Black / African American](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/black-african-american)
- [discrimination](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/discrimination)
- [retirement](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/retirement)
- [economic inequalities](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/economic-inequalities)
- [racism](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/racism)

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Fact sheet from the National Partnership for Women & Families that highlights the intersectional causes of the Black wealth gap.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/fact-sheet-causes-and-consequences-of-the-black-wealth-gap)

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Why women of color are at greater risk for retirement poverty, and how we can address the gender, racial, and economic inequities at the root of this.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/the-retirement-crisis-for-women-of-color)

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## Racial Wealth Gap Deepens U.S. Retirement Crisis

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## A National Paid Leave Program Would Help Workers, Families

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examines the benefits that would result from a national paid parental leave program.

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examines the benefits that would result from a national paid parental leave program.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/a-national-paid-leave-program-would-help-workers-families)

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## A Report on American Indian and Alaska Native LGBT Adults in the US

A report on American Indian and Alaska Native LGBT adults in the United States, with information on how aging and care impact those populations and communities.

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A report on American Indian and Alaska Native LGBT adults in the United States, with information on how aging and care impact those populations and communities.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/a-report-on-american-indian-and-alaska-native-lgbtqia-adults-in-the-us)

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## A Report on Sexual Violence against Indigenous Women in the US

The Maze of Injustice report examines sexual violence against Indigenous women in the United States and identifies multiple systemic barriers to justice.

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The Maze of Injustice report examines sexual violence against Indigenous women in the United States and identifies multiple systemic barriers to justice.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/a-report-on-sexual-violence-against-indigenous-women-in-the-us)