The public colleges of New York, Texas, and California are great engines of social mobility in America. They move many born in the lower 20% of income to the top 20%.
Our most elite universities move smaller numbers from the bottom 20% income to the top 1%.
Paper: www.nber.org/system/files...
Belinda?
DISOBEY, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
"it doesn't have to be this way"
trudeau addressing the USians as a more effective opposition leader than schumer
if a coup transpires on a friday evening and no oligarch media report it, does it make a sound
Thanks for posting this review. It made me think big thoughts about alternatives to consensus.
What does it say about our society that
"Think of the poor doggos!"
is a more effective PSA against setting off fireworks in residential areas than
"You have actual human neighbors you see every day with severe mental health issues who you are giving trauma responses"
Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year using the first 6 months of data:
• NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside
• Full-time employment increased
• Fewer visits to the ER
• Fewer nights spent in jail
depends if affordable housing comes with the job.
West Virginians, trapped in the clutches of economic hardship, find themselves mercilessly shackled to a state most can ill afford to abandon, left to suffer the full weight of the WVU administration’s harrowing decisions. We will learn only subjects aligned with the preferences of the rich, driven by their financial motivations. We will work for the oligarchs for the rest of our lives, just like our parents and our grandparents did for the global coal industry. We will continue to amass inconceivable riches for the nation’s privileged elite until our last breath, and we will find our resting place in unadorned cardboard coffins beneath West Virginia soil.
Damn. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html
When David Brooks, who divorced his wife to marry his much, much younger research assistant, recommends reading *Middlemarch* for marriage guidance, remember this from Prof @nushpowell.bsky.social:
Once I accidentally double submitted an essay to 2 equally fancy journals. #1 rejected it outright (disliked everything). #2 accepted it (rave reviews). Horrifying & enlightening to realize we're all floating in space. Trust your self, take whatever feedback you think helpful & burn the rest.
