After Michael Brown was a shot and killed by police officer, Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, the Economic Policy Institute on October 15, 2014 came out with a 40+ page report authored , Richard Rothstein entitled, THE MAKING OF FERGUSON: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles.

Rothstein written extensively about how poverty affects education and has spent years studying the evolution of residential segregation nationwide. He is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California Berkeley.

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