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How will Joe Biden GOVERN? General Biden Administration F**kery Thread
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Damn, Joe!
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F.D.A.’s Drug Industry Fees Fuel Concerns Over Influence
The pharmaceutical industry finances about 75 percent of the agency’s drug division, through a controversial program that Congress must reauthorize by the end of this month.
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At Millions Per Detainee, Guantánamo Prison Stuck in a Cycle of Costly Delays
The mission has relied on short-term fixes for things like housing and medical care for two decades. With 36 detainees left, the prison will soon receive its 21st commander.
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Google bets on CUNY program to diversify city’s tech talent pool
The university is set to train K-12 educators to integrate computing skills in the classroom
www.crainsnewyork.com
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At Old Coal Mines, the American Chestnut Tries for a Comeback
Across Appalachia, scientists and foresters are trying to reintroduce a hybrid version, helping to revive damaged land while also bringing back a beloved tree.
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‘A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy
The United States faces two distinct challenges, the movement by Republicans who refuse to accept defeat in an election and a growing disconnect between political power and public opinion.
Crime bill JoeMore evidence of the neoliberal construct…oh wait a second
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How Poverty Programs Aided Children From One Generation to the Next (Published 2022)
For families in West Virginia, which has had especially sharp drops in child poverty over the past three decades, the shift has played out in ways not fully captured by statistics.
Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty (Published 2022)
With little public notice and accelerating speed, child poverty fell by 59 percent from 1993 to 2019, according to a comprehensive new analysis that shows the critical role of increased government aid.
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A good rebuttal to thisHow Poverty Programs Aided Children From One Generation to the Next (Published 2022)
For families in West Virginia, which has had especially sharp drops in child poverty over the past three decades, the shift has played out in ways not fully captured by statistics.www.nytimes.com
Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty (Published 2022)
With little public notice and accelerating speed, child poverty fell by 59 percent from 1993 to 2019, according to a comprehensive new analysis that shows the critical role of increased government aid.
Was There a Sharp Drop in Child Poverty?
Under common measures, not really.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
Whenever you see poverty reports like this, especially ones that seem to have a surprising conclusion, you should ask yourself whether something strange is going on with the poverty metric being used and how it compares to other ways of measuring the poverty rate. I hate debating poverty measurements because the whole thing is so arbitrary and the underlying data driving the analysis in the US is so patchy, but when something like this comes out, I have no choice.
In the below graph, I use the same dataset the study authors use, and data from the Luxembourg Income Studyand the OECD to plot four different child poverty rates over the last few decades.
The solid orange line is the one the study authors decided to use, with the year 1993 the one they really hone in as the baseline for most of their statistics. To produce this orange line, you first determine what the poverty thresholds were under the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) in 2012. Then, after adjusting for inflation, you use those 2012 poverty thresholds to add up the number of children in poverty for 2012 and every other year. According to this measure, child poverty fell from 27.9 percent in 1993 to 11.4 percent in 2019.
Globally speaking, this is an unusual way to measure poverty. The more typical way of measuring poverty is to determine the median income of the country for a given year (adjusting for family size) and then add up the number of kids with a family income that is below half of the median. In the graph above, the red (LIS Relative), black (OECD relative), and blue (SPM relative) dashed lines use this method. The three lines differ somewhat due to slightly different ways of defining and imputing disposable income and adjusting income for family size, but they largely tell the same story: the child poverty rate declined from around 25 percent in 1993 to around 21 percent in 2019.
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U.S. Hostage Exchanged for Afghan Drug Lord in Prisoner Swap
The Taliban said it had freed an American engineer, Mark R. Frerichs, in exchange for the release of a prominent Afghan tribal leader convicted of drug trafficking.
