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Online public schools now assume a surprisingly large role and do a terrible job, providing yet more proof that charter schools are about looting, not education.

This entry was posted in Banana republic, Guest Post, Politics, Privatization, Social policy on February 11, 2016 by Yves Smith.

Bill Black: The AEI and Brookings Sell Marriage as the Solution for Poverty

Marriage is the new cheap fix for poverty…which means by implication that single low income women are a new category of the undeserving poor.

How Many Flints? America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis

Flint is just the tip of the iceberg of lead poisoning in America.

Adolph Reed on Sanders, Coates, and Reparations

Adolph Reed begs to differ with Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations.

This entry was posted in Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values on February 5, 2016 by Yves Smith.

Trump’s Neofascism Isn’t Going Away, Even if Trump Does

Trump represents a new strain in American politics: low wage full employment and the protection of the status of big business through violent discipline.

Fiscal Cost of Refugees in Europe

Data in Sweden shows that even with generous support for refugees, the costs are not high.

This entry was posted in Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Social policy on January 28, 2016 by Yves Smith.

“This is Just Evil”: Massive Private License Plate Database Tracks Car Locations Over Years

Large-scale logging of time and location stamped license plate data, retained over years, means Big Brother knows where you have been.

This entry was posted in Legal, Politics, Private equity, Social policy, Surveillance state on January 28, 2016 by Yves Smith.

A Lesson for 2016: Upton’s Sinclair’s 1934 End Poverty in California (EPIC) Gubernatorial Campaign

Upton Sinclair put forward radical plan for combatting the desperate conditions of the Great Depression. They illustrate how blinkered our vision has become.

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values on January 26, 2016 by Yves Smith.

New York Review of Books on How Oligarchs Use Philanthropy to Advance Their Social Agendas (and a Shout Out to NC)

How the 0.1% are using philanthropy as a Trojan Horse for social engineering.

This entry was posted in Banana republic, Hedge funds, Income disparity, Media watch, Politics, Private equity, Social policy, Social values on January 25, 2016 by Yves Smith.

Robert Reich: Why the White Working Class Abandoned the Democratic Party

The history of the political calculus that led the Democratic Party to turn its back on its traditional base, the working class, and how that’s coming back to bite now.

Lost in Assumptions: Assessing the Economic Impact of Migrants

Yves here. This post is more important than it seems for several reasons. First, it reveals one of the dirty secrets of modeling: if you tweak assumptions within plausible ranges, you can come up with wildly different outcomes. Second, it identifies what some of these assumptions are in the now-hot-topic of whether letting more migrants […]

This entry was posted in Dubious statistics, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Social policy on January 20, 2016 by Yves Smith.