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California reparations proposal could mean $223K per person in payments for Black residents
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s panel on reparations is projecting that California may pay over $200,000 per particular person to Black residents to make up for previous housing discrimination.
Newsom has aggressively pushed his plan to supply monetary reparations to Black Californians whom he says have to be financially compensated for many years of discrimination.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks throughout a press convention in San Francisco.
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The California Reparations Activity Drive says that underneath the initiative, qualifying Black residents within the state may qualify for $223,200 per particular person.
The duty drive drew its ballpark quantity by analyzing gaps in housing and speculating the approximate quantity of wealth misplaced between 1933 and 1977. The state panel says that Black Californians misplaced $5,074 per 12 months underneath earlier housing insurance policies.
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Yolo County, California, consists of components of Sacramento.
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Through laws signed in 2020, Newsom created the duty drive, which voted in March to restrict potential reparations to descendants of free or enslaved Black folks within the nation on the finish of the nineteenth century slightly than all Black folks, as many reparations advocates have pushed for.
The report, which runs 500 pages, is the primary government-commissioned examine on harms in opposition to the Black neighborhood for the reason that 1968 Kerner Fee report ordered by President Lyndon Johnson, process drive Chair Kamilah Moore mentioned.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a invoice into regulation.
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A federal slavery reparations invoice, generally known as H.R. 40, has languished in Congress because it was first launched in 1989. It handed out of the Home Judiciary Committee in 2021, however most imagine it’s unlikely to progress additional.