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Golden Promises

If reparations aren't politically viable, what's the next best thing?

by Lee Hawkins and Alex Schroeder
Jan 5, 2024
Scholars say local action directed at improving access to housing, health care and education are more likely to pass than cash payments.
Many Black families were excluded from suburbs that were rapidly growing in the '50s and '60s.
Illustration: Dylan Miettinen/Marketplace | Photo: Courtesy USC Libraries. “Dick” Whittington Photography Collection
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Golden Promises

California debates who should be eligible for reparations for slavery

by Lee Hawkins and Alex Schroeder
Jan 4, 2024
Recommendations start "with those folks who are clearly descendants of 250 years of wage theft in this country," says Sen. Steven Bradford.
Illustration: Dylan Miettinen/Marketplace | Photos: filo and JasonDoiy/Getty Images
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Golden Promises

2024 will be a big year for the reparations debate in California

by Lee Hawkins and Alex Schroeder
Jan 3, 2024
After a state task force issued a nearly 1,100-page report in 2023, lawmakers are starting to look at reparations policy options.
California State Sen. Steven Bradford is one of nine task force members who issued a report on reparations last year.
Illustration: Dylan Miettinen/Marketplace | Photo: Courtesy California State Senate
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Settling the Bill

The tipped minimum wage has origins in slavery

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Erika Soderstrom
Sep 19, 2023
And that legacy means a worker can be paid as little as $2.13 an hour at the federal level.
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4 states just voted to close a loophole that allowed slavery as punishment for a crime

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 10, 2022
But that might not change the way prisons use inmates as labor.
There were still a few states that utilized slavery and indentured servitude as punishment for crimes.
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Race and Economy

Slavery ended in the 1860s. Why hasn't the wealth gap closed for Black Americans?

by Kimberly Adams and Sean McHenry
Jun 20, 2022
Juneteenth commemorates Black Americans' emancipation from slavery, yet their economic emancipation continues.
Demonstrators marched Friday in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate Juneteenth and demand reparations for Black Americans. Structural and legal barriers have limited Black people's opportunities to build wealth.
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Race and Economy

Here's how companies are observing Juneteenth this year

by Marielle Segarra
Jun 19, 2020
Juneteenth dates back to 1865, and it is a celebration specifically of the end of slavery in Texas, which was one of the last holdouts.
This is not a new holiday. But with the conversation we’re having now about racial injustice and American history, companies are paying attention to it.
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Author Caitlin Rosenthal on the role of slavery in the history of business

by Kimberly Adams
Aug 14, 2018
Caitlin Rosenthal, author of "Accounting for Slavery," discusses the role slavery plays in the history of business.
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The disturbing parallels between modern accounting and the business of slavery

by Kimberly Adams
Aug 14, 2018
How slaveholders used modern management techniques
A group of women and children, presumably slaves, sit and stand around the doorway of a rough wooden cabin in the southern United States in the mid-19th century. One girl reads a book to the group of sitting children.
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By The Numbers

Saving Wikipedia, one cup of coffee at a time

by Marketplace Staff
Dec 28, 2015
Here are the numbers we're reading and watching for Monday.
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