Economist lays out case for reparations that would cost US gov’t $12T

A noted economist has laid out a roadmap for how the U.S. could make reparations to the descendants of slaves — and estimates it would cost between 10 and 12 trillion dollars to right the historic injustice. Duke University professor William Darity Jr. and his wife, the writer A. Kirsten Mullen, co-authored a report making...