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453. A Rescue Plan for Black America

Freakonomics Radio

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State Power Is the Ideal Forced to Gather Than Federal Per Se

Half of the power in the country is reserved for the states to exercise independent of the federal government. Mass incarceration is by and large a state and local issue. There are already twelve hundred majority black cities in america, ninety per cent of them in the south. The state can preempt anything the city wants to do. This is strategically arrayed like just the right amount....

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