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This is one more way in which the “war on drugs” differentially affects households of color and differentially destroys their health and earning potential.

 

The segregation of prison populations by infectious disease status is a policy change which could be effected rapidly, would save millions in health care costs and would have a significant net benefit to both the incarcerated and their spouses and lovers, a large number of whom are women of color.

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Jan VanDenBerg earned a Master's Degree from the Economics Department of Stanford University in 1987.  She served as head Japan economist for Merrill Lynch Tokyo 1987-1993, and worked for the US Treasury Department Office of (more...)
 

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