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People applaud at a meeting of the reparations task force in San Francisco.
A San Francisco panel studying reparations has proposed
a one-time payment of $5 million to each black resident of the city deemed eligible as recompense for the "decades of harm they have experienced," according to a report on Monday.
"A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population ... and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy," the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee said in a draft report issued last month,
Fox News Digital reported.
The proposal could cost the city, which has a 2022-2023 budget of $14 billion, roughly $50 billion, the
Daily Mail reported.
The committee also proposed wiping out all debts associated with educational, personal, credit card and payday loans for black households.
The 15-member panel was established by San Francisco supervisors in May 2021. A separate task force created by California's legislature is also studying reparations.
The city
group's report says: "Reparation must be adequate, effective, prompt, and should be proportional to the gravity of the violations and the harm suffered."
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