There is nearly a 70% chance that an African American man without a high school diploma will be imprisoned by his mid-30s.
16 Jan 2015 1 Comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, deterrence
Map Of The Day
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in economic history, politics - USA Tags: maps
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History professor Claudio Saunt created the above time-lapse, as well as a corresponding interactive map, to emphasize “the fact that the United States is built on someone else’s land”:
By the time the Civil War came to an end in 1865, it had consumed the lives of 800,000 Americans, or 2.5 per cent of the population, according to recent estimates. If slavery was a moral failing, said Lincoln in his second inaugural address, then the war was ‘the woe due to those by whom the offense came’. The rupture between North and South forced white Americans to confront the nation’s deep investment in slavery and to emancipate and incorporate four million individuals. They did not do so willingly, and the reconstruction of the nation is in many ways still unfolding. By contrast, there has been no similar reckoning with the conquest of the continent, no serious reflection on its centrality…
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Political Startup Ranks the Most Conservative, Liberal 2016 Candidates
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in politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election
More than a third of American workers don’t get sick leave
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in labour economics, occupational choice, politics - USA
Looking For Clues: Who Is Going To Run For President In 2016? | FiveThirtyEight
15 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election
The payoff from foreign direct investment in the USA
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, international economics, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: foreign direct investment
Not very likely alert: How much oil, gas and coal do we need to leave in the ground?
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
What to do when the facts are against you
12 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA
Here’s what school lunches look like around the world – Vox
10 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: School lunches
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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