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Hooked on Fines
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 0:12:35
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When protests rocked Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, few realized the tensions could be traced to a policy-based problem — local police were fining residents at abnormally high rates to fund the city’s operating budget. Mike Maciag of Governing Magazine spent a year looking into other communities reliant on fines. He found a trend that’s destabilizing governments in low-income communities across the country. EPISODE NOTES: www.ire.org/archives/39170