 Two Harvard professors argue in their study that the U.S. government can afford to pay reparations to descendants of slaves. In the study, titled Normalizing Reparations, U.S. Precedent Norms and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans, Linda J. Blimes and Cornell William Brooks, who is black, cite historical precedents and existing federal programs for compensating citizens who've suffered harm or loss through no fault of their own. They suggest these could be models for slavery reparations.