The state of Illinois’ reparations commission, known as the African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission, is hard at work on a daunting mission.
on righting the wrongs of the past. Now, the Illinois commission is taking a hard look at the California task forces’s work.
“Currently the commission is already utilizing some of the framework set out by the California task force,” saidAs for funding sources for reparations, “It’s still too early to say,” said Harper, especially since the commission has only just begun the work. “We’re going to find money to fund reparations the same way that we do to fund everything else.”
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