Panel Recommends Paying Eugenics Victims $50,000

by Julie Rose, NPR

In North Carolina Tuesday, a state eugenics task force has recommended paying $50,000 to people the state sterilized against their will. It's not as much money as the victims had hoped, but it's one of the first times a state has offered any money.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, January 10, 2012