Dorothy Brown

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Dorothy Brown is an author and law professor at Emory University. Dorothy joins the Armchair Expert to discuss her new book "The Whiteness of Wealth" and how race relates to taxes and wealth inequality. Dorothy and Dax discuss the problems with the current tax system and solutions to the systemic racism of tax law. Dorothy explains the differences in married couples filing for taxes, homeownership value, and how wages are invested among white and black communities. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:14.0	Welcome welcome welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.8	I'm Mike Badger and I'm joined by Jennifer Catfish.
0:21.8	Hey Jen! Hey Mike! How you doing? What a pair. Oh my God. We do like an outdoor segment for outdoor TV.
0:30.0	I picture us in a fisherman's hat. Absolutely.
0:33.0	Absolutely.
0:34.0	Maybe some waiters, maybe waste high in a small river.
0:37.8	We're going to take some samples and we're going to do some fly fishing.
0:41.5	Today we have a professor of law at Emory University by the name
0:46.7	of Dorothy Brown. Dorothy Brown has dedicated her career to understanding the ways in which
0:51.1	US tax policy drives the racial wealth gap.
0:54.3	A mission made complicated by the fact that the IRS, despite collecting troves of data, does not
0:59.3	collect data by race. Her new book, The Whiteness of Wealth, How the Tax System
1:04.8	impoverishes Black Americans and how we can fix it. This was a very fun
1:09.5	interview. Very and so informative.
1:12.6	Dorothy's from New York and she had a lot of spring interstep which I love.
1:17.2	Yes and she works at Emory which is my not alma mater but in Atlanta my aunt went there so I have a connect.
1:27.4	You got a great connect and we talked a lot about Atlanta. So if you're from Atlanta
1:31.2	you don't have to listen to this up.
1:32.6	You already know everything we talk about.
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