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The Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations hire eugenicists for data collection.

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The Story of Disability Justice
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The Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations will hire eugenicists over the next decade to pool data from psychiatric institutions, prisons, and orphanages to “calculate the ethnic makeup of societal dependents and the cost of maintaining them in public institutions" (Gonzales, 2016).

This data is used to argue that biological genetic makeup is the root cause of poverty, substance use, "sexual perversion and deviance," and mental/physical disabilities.