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a fair amount of government aid earmarked for the poor never reaches them. To understand why, consider welfare. When
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Families who couldn’t both make rent and keep current with the utility company sometimes paid a cousin or neighbor to reroute the meter.
Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Thompson, tireless and unrelenting, brought her case to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. There her lawyers argued eloquently that it was “astonishing” that a judge would issue an order that would “have the effect of limiting Sharon Kowalski’s contact with Thompson and the love Karen feels for her.” The lawyers demanded to know, “In what moral framew
... See moreLillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
The Atlantic • The Time Tax
“betterment of well people”—there
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
“Programs should be judged based on results, not intentions.” —Milton Friedman,
Henry Alkire • Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time
In the last decades of the twentieth century, as the justice system was adopting a set of abrasive policies that would swell police forces and fuel the prison boom, it was also leaving more and more policing responsibilities to citizens without a badge and a gun.3 What about the pawnshop owner who sold the gun? Isn’t he partially responsible for th
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.