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Re:San Francisco Torn as Some See “Street Behavior” Worsen by basch on Sunday April 24, 2016 @09:23PM (#11562107)
>Never before had such a plan—known as “fiscal equalization”—been tried at the metropolitan level.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-mira...

tldr: the twin cities tax businesses and put the money into low income communities to prevent crime, and in the 70s and 80s, 70% of subsidized units were built in the wealthiest white districts, to prevent ghettos from forming.

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Re:San Francisco Torn as Some See “Street Behavior” Worsen by ooooo00000 on Monday April 25, 2016 @12:02AM (#11562472)
But unfortunately Minnesota consistently ranks among the worst regarding the disparity between white and minority educational achievement.
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