Stolen Lives: Redress for Slavery's and Jim Crow's Ongoing Theft of Lifespan

E Wrigley-Field - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2024 - rsfjournal.org
Reparations proposals typically target wealth. Yet slavery's and Jim Crow's long echoes also
steal time, such as by producing shorter Black lifespans even today. I argue that lost time …

A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts

TR Shanks, J Huang, W Elliott, H Zheng… - RSF: The Russell …, 2024 - rsfjournal.org
Successful Black reparations require a policy for delivering payments, one that provides for
effective identification, disbursement, asset protection, and asset growth over time. In this …

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap: A Counterfactual Historical Simulation of Universal Inheritance

A Dvir-Djerassi - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2024 - rsfjournal.org
Since the end of the civil rights movement, the United States has not made meaningful
progress toward closing the racial wealth gap. Without deliberate policy intervention, this …