Reparations Payments Could ‘Devastate California,’ Economist Says, Costing Trillions and Causing More Residents To Flee

Little is known about how much the reparations proposals coming out of the California state legislature would cost or where the funding would come from.

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Morris Griffin holds up a sign during a meeting of the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans at Oakland, California. AP/Jeff Chiu

As California’s legislature charges ahead with its plans to implement reparations for descendants of slaves in America and those suffering from its legacy, concerns are growing that they could further wreck the fiscally-strained Golden State and accelerate outmigration. 

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