Economists estimate that totals from harms associated with housing and mass incarceration could exceed US$500 billion. Read more at straitstimes.com.
OAKLAND, California – A California panel on Saturday approved recommendations that could mean hundreds of billions of dollars in payments to Black residents to address past injustices. The proposals to state legislators are the nation’s most sweeping effort to devise a programme of reparations.
It will be up to legislators to weigh the recommendations and decide whether to forge them into law, a political and fiscal challenge that has yet to be reckoned with. To address the impact of overpolicing and mass incarceration, the report estimates, each eligible person would receive US$115,260, or about US$2,352 for each year of residency in California from 1971 to 2020, during the decades-long war on drugs.
While the panel members considered various methods for distributing reparations – some favoured tuition or housing grants and others preferred direct cash payments – they ultimately recommended the direct payments. Still, on Saturday, there was sometimes contentious debate over clearly expressing the criteria in certain sections of the report – particularly regarding compensation.
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