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False: California has approved $1.2 million in reparations for every black resident. California in 2020 mandated the creation of the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. It spent three years examining the effects of slavery on Black Americans throughout the state’s history, and made recommendations about compensation to Black Californians for the harms done to them.The Task Force on May 7 approved recommendations to the Legislature that include preliminary payment amounts for damage suffered by Blacks because of housing, health care and policing policies and practices. One estimate suggests that a 71-year-old lifelong resident could theoretically qualify for more than $1 million. But that doesn’t mean every Black resident would get that amount, if the recommendations became law.The task force will meet once more before July 1, the deadline for sending its final report to the Legislature. Any action would require legislative and gubernatorial approval. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on May 10 declined to say whether he would support the recommended payments. One task force member who is also a lawmaker suggested any final reparations might not come in the form of a check. (Source: PolitiFact)

Mostly-True: “Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.” In a book he co-wrote in 2000, Donald Trump warned that the Social Security trust fund would run out in decades.Trump called for solutions, which included raising the retirement age to 70.In March in a speech, Trump mocked the idea of raising the minimum age of Social Security. (Source: PolitiFact)

False: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul approved a memo denying medical care to white people COVID-19 treatments were open to people of all races in New York | Fact checkShow Caption Hide Caption Gov. It is from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and outlines the use of antiviral therapies Paxlovid and molnupiravir for COVID-19 treatment. It is signed by Dr. Celia Quinn, the New York City Health Department's deputy commissioner for disease control – not Hochul. It outlined eligibility for the treatments, which included weighing at least 88 pounds, having mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms and having a medical condition or other factors that increase the risk for severe COVID-19 illness. “Impacts of longstanding systemic health and social inequities put Black, Indigenous and people of color at increased risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes and death,” it says. (Source: USA Today)