; (7) the civil rights movement, and other efforts to redress grievances arising from systemic inequities, were sabotaged, both intentionally and unintentionally, thus rendering the accomplishments of those efforts transitory and unsustainable, and further embedding racial inequality in society; (8) examples of discriminatory Federal Government actions directed against African Americans include— (A) the creation of the Federal Housing Administration, which adopted specific policies designed to incentivize residential segregation; (B) the enactment of legislation creating the Social Security program, for which most African Americans were purposely rendered ineligible during its first two decades; (C) the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly known as the GI Bill of Rights; 58 Stat. 284, chapter 268), which left administration of its programs to the States, thus enabling discrimination against African-American veterans; and (D) the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which allowed labor unions to discriminate based on race; and (9) as a result of the historic and continued discrimination, African Americans continue to suffer debilitating economic, educational, and health hardships including but not limited to having nearly 1,000,000 Black people incarcerated; an unemployment rate more than twice the current White unemployment rate; and an average of less than 1/16 of the wealth of White families, a disparity which has worsened, not improved over time. (b) Purpose The purpose of this Act is to establish a commission to study and develop Reparation proposals for African Americans as a result of— (1) the institution of slavery, including both the Trans-Atlantic and the domestic trade which existed from 1565 in colonial Florida and from 1619 through 1865 within the other colonies that became the United States, and which included the Federal and State governments which constitutionally and statutorily supported the institution of slavery