Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3

03/08/21 • 3 min

More than 150 years after the end of slavery in the U.S., the net worth of a typical white family is nearly six times greater than that of the average Black family. Season 3 of The Pay Check digs into into how we got to where we are today and what can be done to narrow the yawning racial wealth gap in the U.S.

Jackie Simmons and Rebecca Greenfield co-host the season, which kicks off with a personal story about land Jackie's family acquired some time after slavery that they're on the verge of losing. From there the series explores all the ways the wealth gaps manifests and the radical solutions, like affirmative action, quotas, and reparations, that can potentially lead to greater equality.

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03/08/21 • 3 min

What Goes Up - Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3

Transcript

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Last year, Like a lot of black Americans, I started thinking more about our collective history in America in my own place in it. My family had a plot of land in East Texas, near a town called Mount Pleasant. I grew up in Arizona, and as far as I was concerned, Texas was another planet. Big hats, rodeos that showed Dallas. We drove through Mount Pleasant once, but I don't remember much. As I got older, my dad would call and talk about the Texas pr

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