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​​​Reparations Revisited​

​​​Reparations Revisited​
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs into law a bill that establishes a task force to come up with recommendations on how to give reparations to Black Americans in Sacramento, Calif. on Sept. 30, 2020. Office of the Governor via AP
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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The drive for reparations to be paid to African Americans in the United States has been gaining momentum in places such as California and New York. I’ve written before about how morally dubious reparations to descendants of slaves would be. But even if we assume, for the sake of argument, that reparations can be morally justified, reparations aren’t a viable public policy because of overwhelming logistical and practical considerations.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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