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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

Black Californians owed $800bn in reparations for decades of discrimination, say economists

Paul Kitagaki Jr/The Sacramento Bee/AP

Black residents of California could be owed $800bn in reparations for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering compensation payments.

The preliminary estimate is more than 2.5 times larger than the state’s $300bn annual budget.

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