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Jason Rojas: “The government has acted over the last hundred…”

Featuring: Jason Rojas, Democratic | Connecticut House of Representatives, 9th Assembly District

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CT House Majority Leader Jason Rojas: Dealing with Economic & Racial Segregation

Published | Video Starts at 02:28

And that got me kind of interested in questions of zoning and how the government has acted over the last hundred years and government at the local level, at The government has acted over the last hundred years...complicit, and actually designing what we have today...a pretty segregated society in terms of race and class. which I have argued is kind of at the core of our social dysfunction in many ways. And I work in higher education and I see it on our college campuses all the time. (02:28–02:48)

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Asserts that government actions over the past century have contributed to racial and class segregation.

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