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Ep. 47 Rachel Ferguson, Ph.D: Exclusion & Opportunity - Black Liberation Through the Marketplace

The Moral Imagination

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The Black Poverty Rate Drops From 89% to 41%, Right?

Between 1948 and 1966, the black poverty rate drops from 89% to 41%. So the black poverty rates are cut in half before we ever are even in the era of the Civil Rights Act. Urban renewal is just eminent domain abuse where we're taking people's houses and deciding that we need to knock them all down and build something different. Say it again, marriages and family stability. Those rates were all higher prior to 1960.

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