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The history of what we now call opportunity zones
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Released:
Jan 25, 2019
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The 2017 tax cut in the US included a provision that would forgive capital gains taxes, if invested for ten years in an "opportunity zone" — a low-income area designated by a state governor. But the idea of encouraging investments in poor and mostly black areas has a long history. We talk to Mehrsa Baradaran, a law professor at the University of Georgia and Andrew Schrank, a sociologist at Brown University. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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Jan 25, 2019
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