agricultural history

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/6/2022
  

  Don’t Make Meat Cheaper. Make It Much More Expensive

  by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg

  The Biden administration hopes to score political points by making the meat industry more competitive and lowering prices. This is ignoring the horrible costs of cheap meat. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg Equality
  3/11/2021
  

  My Family’s Long-Gone Texas Land Shows How Black Wealth Is Won and Lost

  by Jacqueline Simmons

  A host of the Pay Check podcast introduces a new season that will examine her family's history of landholding in Texas as a lens on the historical roots of the black-white wealth gap. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  9/21/2020
  

  Look What Has Been Taken From Black Americans

  It's difficult to quantify the financial cost to Black Americans of racism and segregation. But the destruction of property and denial of trade by white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 was quantified by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; her findings can put the scope of a reparations program into some perspective.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/29/2020
  

  The Government Must Pay People to Stay Home

  by Gabriel N. Rosenberg

  The earliest effective government responses to epidemic illness in the United States came not in the context of human health, but in the context of livestock.