Public Finance 
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SOURCE: Public Books
12/13/2021
Public Thinker: Destin Jenkins on Breaking Bonds
by Hannah Appel
"As your work so powerfully shows, the municipal bond market structures racial privilege, entrenches spatial neglect, and distributes wealth and power. American cities are dependent on financiers, rating agencies, and bond markets for nearly everything."
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/1/2021
What History Can Teach Banks About Making Change
by Destin Jenkins
"Celebrating Juneteenth and recruiting more Black bankers is one thing. It is quite another for financial firms to use their unique power to actively undermine the systems that perpetuate racial inequality."
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