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Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.
Raj Chetty
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Raj Chetty
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: August 4
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New Delhi district
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