Several members of California’s Legislative Black Caucus launched a statewide tour Saturday in San Diego to promote a slate of 14 reparations bills.
Assemblymember Akilah Weber speaks during the State of Black California Tour at Crawford High School in San Diego on June 15, 2024.LAist is facing a budget shortfall, but our mission to provide fact-based journalism is stronger than ever. We cannot do this important work without your member support today. Whether you give for the first time or increase your monthly donation, it all goes a long way in setting us up for a sustainable future.
The bill does not address the issue of cash payment, such as requiring that inmates be paid a minimum wage. In 2022, the California Department of Finance estimated it would, a Moreno Valley Democrat, said the proposal’s softened language was a deliberate choice to make the bill more palatable to voters by proposing incremental changes.“Of course, we also know that when you make something more simplistic you are watering down its effectiveness,” he said.
California Legislative Black Caucus members, from left, Assemblymember Corey Jackson, State Sen. Steven Bradford and Assemblymember Mike Gipson answer questions during the State of Black California Tour at Crawford High School in San Diego on June 15, 2024.
California became the first state in the country to form a reparations task force three years ago and the first to introduce a, have proposed their own compensation programs for descendants of slaves or victims of racism, often with pushback. A recent lawsuitSome Black California legislators noted that Republican colleagues have pledged to vote against reparations bills and some Democrats also have expressed reservations.
If reparations measures succeed, the benefits for California could offset their costs, because more disadvantaged Californians would be contributing to its economy instead of dropping out of school or landing in prison, said sociologist Manuel Pastor, director of USC’s Equity Research Institute. “At each and every level of education there is a wage penalty for being Black or Latino,” Pastor said.
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