Illinois' recreational marijuana tax went into effect in 2022, funding the reparations in Evanston, according to CNN. For the qualified people, $25,000 was available towards a down payment for a home, renovations, or help with a mortgage. One of the 14 approved residents in Evanston, Romona Burton, used the money to pay for windows, her roof, and her chimney.
Simons said, "It is one thing to identify a harm and prescribe a remedy. In the case of Evanston … we have been led to understand and appreciate that home-rule taxes are our most viable way to fund reparations, being that they’re within our purview."
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San Francisco's reparations committee has proposed paying each Black resident of the community $5 million, with the board of supervisors mulling the proposal. Eric McDonnell, the committee's chair, said that the number was determined after an "journey" without a "math formula."
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has yet to take a public stance on the possibility of reparations, though the state has created a task force to consider a proposal to give nearly $360,000 to each Black Californian whose ancestor was enslaved in the U.S. estimated at 1.8 million individuals with a total estimated cost of about $640 billion.
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