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August 21, 2024 - January 4, 2025
In the decade after 2000, people of color made up nearly 83 percent of the growth in rural population in America.
Social isolation has been found to lower life expectancy by a degree comparable to smoking almost a pack of cigarettes a day.
Maine once had the largest Ku Klux Klan membership outside of the South, and the textile mills that made the city of Lewiston were, of course, processing southern cotton.
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Ultimately, having millions of people with potential on the sidelines because they have too much debt and not enough opportunity saps the vitality of the entire economy.
That’s the Solidarity Dividend.
The post–World War II GI Bill is a good example of a well-intentioned policy meant to benefit all veterans that in fact did almost nothing for black veterans for two generations, because the policy ignored the disparate conditions they faced, such as being excluded from most of the educational and home-owning opportunities the GI Bill was supposed to support.
2020 book From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-first Century,
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We are greater than, and greater for, the sum of us.
For too long, we’ve allowed a narrow, cramped view of the promise of this nation to fester. You know, we’ve—we’ve bought the view that America is a zero-sum game in many cases: “If you succeed, I fail.” “If you get ahead, I fall behind.” “If you get the job, I lose mine.” Maybe worst of all, “If I hold you down, I lift myself up.” …I believe this nation and this government need to change their whole approach to the issue of racial equal—equity. Yes, we need criminal justice reform, but that isn’t nearly enough. We need to open the promise of America to every American. And that means we need to
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President Biden speaking about and referencing zero net gain sum
