Today on Freakin'omics Radio, what can a lady's soccer team from early 20th century

England teach us about the racial wealth gap in 21st century America?

How is the famous suburb of Levittown, New York a textbook example of de Jury discrimination?

And are reparations for slavery an idea whose time has come?

We will hear arguments in favor?

So the material redress would in a retro-spective way bring about justice by affecting the racial

wealth gap.

Arguments against?

Do we in America in the 21st century really want to construct a social security magnitude,

social intervention based on race?

And a hat full of other ideas to address the wealth gap?

We need an affirmative action program in housing.

Baby bonds is an idea from people as far back as Thomas Payne.

We'll do our best to avoid empty slogan-earing.

I think you're playing with words and avoiding the hard work of trying to discover complex

historical causal chains.

And we may end up poking a bear or two.

It's not letting white people off the hook where America off the hook creates his historical

crimes to observe that some of the stuff that's holding us back is within our reach to

be able to deal with the first of a two-part episode starting right after this.

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