[Originally posted on the main page] A caller on NPR’s Talk of the Nation offered a very interesting story about whether a college degree is a sound investment. Note the reflexive defense from Kathleen Shea Smith, a student counselor who… Continue Reading
“Generational poverty” is often used or taken as code for “black.” Even by those who mean well. However, rural poverty is just as persistent, and it of course is as caucasian as it is anything else and usually more so.… Continue Reading
I’ve been researching and writing lately and just now catching up on the blogs. Jonathan Chait comments on a new paper by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute by Andrew Biggs and Jason Richwine, explaining that public school… Continue Reading