Tax-Increment Financing (TIF) is a financing tool used by cities large and small across the country. Chicago, whose history includes several instances of de jure and de facto racial discrimination, is an especially prolific TIF user. This Note examines TIF distribution in each of Chicago's 50...

The high cost of having hypertension while black in America / Leslie R. Hinkson -- "When treating patients like criminals makes sense" : medical hot spotting, race, and debt / Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar -- Obamacare and sovereign debt : race, reparations, and the haunting of premature death...

Many jurisdictions determine real property taxes based on a combination of current market values and the recent history of market values, introducing a dynamic aspect to property taxes. By design, homes in rapidly appreciating neighborhoods enjoy lower tax rates than homes in other areas. Since...

Providing health care is an endeavor replete with hidden opportunities for exercising discretion. Hard science answers few of the questions that physicians face daily, and the resulting space for discretion opens a myriad of possibilities for racial bias at the bedside, and in the administration...

Objective: To estimate racial differences in mortality at 30 days and up to 2 years following a hospital admission for the elderly with common medical conditions. Data Sources: The Medicare Provider Analysis and Review file and the VA Patient Treatment File from 1998-2002 were used to extract...