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California's reparations dream faces stark reality

However, contending with a multibillion dollar budget deficit, the bills introduced so far do not include a proposal to provide direct payments to the descendants of enslaved Black people—which frustrated many advocates of reparations. The estimates for the total cost had run as high as $800 billion, almost three times California's annual budget.

Now, as the nation marks another Juneteenth, celebrating the day when the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free, California lawmakers are having to compromise on the measures that have been introduced, to build support and ensure that some of the task force's recommendations become a reality in the state.

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