Friday, May 10, 2013

Great Slides About Global Inequality and Its Consequences

http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/resources/the-spirit-level-slides-from-the-equality-trust.pptxhttp://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/resources/the-spirit-level-slides-from-the-equality-trust.pptx

Thursday, May 9, 2013

A former student shared this with me on what arguments are being used to scuttle the immigration reform: "Jason Richwine is relatively new to the think tank world. He received his PhD in public policy from Harvard in 2009, and joined Heritage after a brief stay at the American Enterprise Institute. Richwine’s doctoral dissertation is titled “IQ and Immigration Policy”; the contents are well summarized in the dissertation abstract: He writes, “No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.”