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Daily Archive for January 24th, 2012

Killing Paychecks and People for Politics

Posted in ethical foundations, Politics on Jan 24th, 2012

First the Obama Administration kills the Keystone pipeline. No need to comment on it here – if environmentalists think that preventing this pipeline from being built has any impact on carbon emissions or pollution, or somehow “saves” the midwestern water reservoirs they are badly mistaken. Now, I just learned that the Obama Justice Department is […]

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Welfare State Take-Up Rates

Posted in Welfare State on Jan 24th, 2012

Here’s a decent research topic for interested students: find out how large the take-up rates for various welfare programs are by different demographic groups. Why do I ask? My sense is that a decent (apx 20%) share of the users of food-stamps, Medicaid and other public welfare programs are not from the class of needy […]

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