Image The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman / Published by Portfolio, September 2025The double tax is the compounded cost of racism and sexism. Black women are a useful benchmark for whether the double tax is being eliminated because our experiences overlap with many groups. Can you talk about some of these and how they reveal the double tax? Most older adults have at least one chronic condition, so cutting Medicare or Medicaid makes the double tax worse. One way to get closer is to alleviate—and eventually eliminate—the double tax wherever it shows up in our lives, communities, country, and world.