Harold Washington

Harold Washington serves as chief economist at the Manchester Institute, producing rigorous, quantitatively grounded valuations of historical economic harms. His conservative $1.7 trillion estimate for unpaid slave labor becomes a political lever—adopted by Jeff Breckenridge—to convert abstract moral claims into concrete fiscal figures that force White House staff (notably Josh and Donna) to reckon with policy implications. Washington functions as a technocratic authority whose methodical accounting supplies evidentiary ballast to public debate and shapes how advocates and policymakers frame reparations discourse.