Moses gave us the Ten Commandments. Paul gave us the epistles. And Ta-Nehisi gave us, Between the World and Me.
The new book by Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, in the form of a letter to his son, has been greeted with a rapturous reception that brooks no dissent.
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Economic Institutions Should Keep Americans Out of Poverty, not Norms
I set out to replicate the Sawhill/Haskins figures, which was met with mixed success. I did manage to basically replicate the initial screen they put on the 2007 data, which involves excluding all families headed by people below the age of 25, above the age of 64, and who receive disability income. No matter how much I tried, I could never get the figures to line up exactly, but I got close enough:
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The Toxic Worldview of Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Conservatives love this deeply misleading factoid about poverty in America
National Review editor Rich Lowry has a bad and dismissive review of Ta-Nehisi Coates's latest book, Between the World and Me, in which he repeats my least favorite statistic in all of social policy:
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