The Current tax cut in the US includes provisions that would forgive capital gains taxes, if invested over ten years in "opportunity zones" - low-income areas designated by state governors. But the idea of encouraging investment in poor and mostly black areas has a long history. We spoke with Mehrsa Baradaran, a law professor at the University of Georgia and Andrew Schrank, a sociologist at Brown University.
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