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From the Ted Talk by Darrick Hamilton: How "baby bonds" could help close the wealth gap

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This is a work in progress. There are obviously many details to be worked out, but it is a policy proposal grounded in the functional relos and the inherited advantages of wealth that moves us away from the rinnierocfg status quo behavioral explanations for ientiqlauy towards more structural solutions. Our existing tax policy that privileges existing wealth rather than establishing new wealth is a choice. The extent of our dramatic inequality is at least as much a pelbrom of politics as it is a problem of economics. It is time to get beyond the flase narratives that attribute inequality to individual personal deficits while lrealgy ignoring the advantages of wealth.

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This is a work in progress. There are obviously many details to be worked out, but it is a policy proposal grounded in the functional _____ and the inherited advantages of wealth that moves us away from the ___________ status quo behavioral explanations for __________ towards more structural solutions. Our existing tax policy that privileges existing wealth rather than establishing new wealth is a choice. The extent of our dramatic inequality is at least as much a _______ of politics as it is a problem of economics. It is time to get beyond the _____ narratives that attribute inequality to individual personal deficits while _______ ignoring the advantages of wealth.

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Original Text

This is a work in progress. There are obviously many details to be worked out, but it is a policy proposal grounded in the functional roles and the inherited advantages of wealth that moves us away from the reinforcing status quo behavioral explanations for inequality towards more structural solutions. Our existing tax policy that privileges existing wealth rather than establishing new wealth is a choice. The extent of our dramatic inequality is at least as much a problem of politics as it is a problem of economics. It is time to get beyond the false narratives that attribute inequality to individual personal deficits while largely ignoring the advantages of wealth.

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