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How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

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Arizona State University's Football Stadium

Residents of the historically black witherspoon Jackson neighborhood discovered this with Princeton, they filed a lawsuit and actually won a few million dollars to compensate for their losses. The money that they're not paying in property taxes that that companies like state farmers are paying, Arizona State charges them a lower fee than what their tax cost would be. They take that money and they do things like build a football stadium. Most of the workers are not faculty, but low wage workers, workers that come from these surrounding neighborhoods of color. So the university is extracting wages from the workforce. And so this is happening at Arizona State, at Michigan, at the University of Virginia. These state schools are leasing out their

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