Pathways to Upward Economic Mobility and Wealth Building for Black Women

Despite their essential role in the US workforce, Black women continue to face significant racial and gender-based disparities in wages, retirement savings, and student loan debt that limit their ability to build wealth. This Urban Institute brief explores how interventions in six policy areas—workforce, retirement, student debt, homeownership, entrepreneurship and access to capital, and health care—can catalyze and sustain upward economic progress for Black women.