Gulf Shores I’ve been hearing about the loss of land, particularly farmland, by African-American families, for fifty years. I knew there was bound to be some fast and loose dealing behind the fact that 90% of black-owned land was lost between 1910 and 1997, but I assumed it was driven by unequal market negotiations and …
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It Helps the Rich and Powerful that People Are Mystified By Enormous Inequality
New Orleans Some professors are reporting that they are changing their minds about the importance of equality to people. They argue that it’s more about access to opportunity than it is about distribution. Six of one, a half-dozen of the other. Key to their change of mind, reported in the Wall Street Journal, was a …