Imagine leaving office giving an 18-month amnesty to Venezuelans and dozens of pardons to black drug criminals but not even pardoning your supporters who’d die for you

I mean we know who’s behind it all, but it’s still extremely disappointing

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-revocation-executive-order-13770/

This revokes the 5 year lobbying ban Trump instated on all employees leaving the White House

ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT

DLive is now down to 2 stars on the App Store. Keep those ratings coming! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dlive-live-stream-community/id1446969385

I think the Biden admin’s first action as president was to ask for pronouns in the White House contact form lmfao

Pages et al (2020) find that the Head Start program - a Federally funded preschool initiative - actually has negative impacts on students when combining newer cohorts of students not added into samples of older Head Start studies. The reason for this is unclear, but suggests that the program may just be a waste of money.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.01954.pdf

In response to Borjas (2020), who finds large income (and therefore racial) disparities in access to covid-19 testing in NYC, Schmitt-Grohè et al (2020) uses a different methodology to factor in income inequality. Their results indicate there are no disparities in access to testing, undermining a common Biden talking point. However, like Borjas, they find large disparities in the chance a test comes back positive, as poor residents are much more likely to have a positive test.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27019/w27019.pdf

They don’t explain why this is, but the fact that I see large groups of black males outside fast food chains when I go to Manhattan may have something to do with it

https://cla.umn.edu/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/the_hispanic_challenge-foreign_policy-2004_huntington.pdf

Required paleocon reading on immigration

Smith (2010) looks at the effects of immigration on youth unemployment, which has become a serious issue not only in the U.S., but worldwide as well (see: Greece, Spain, etc). He finds significant overlap with the industries youth workers are employed in and those of low skilled immigrants. He also finds that immigration reduces youth employment hours by about 3%, which significantly lowers earnings for those workers. A common response is that reducing youth employment is good because it will nudge youth into schooling, but he actually finds a negative effect, as lifetime earnings decrease as less youth are employed. This will become especially more poignant in the future as the reorganization of the economy has made it so more “entry-level jobs” actual require a certain level of prior employment, hurting workers just entering the labor force

https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2010/201003/201003pap.pdf

I’d like to point out that this basically only affects tourists and vacationers coming from developed or nearly developed countries. It doesn’t have anything to do with immigration

This is the article that Nick was talking about on his Monday show. One of the best monologues he’s done.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/student-suicides-nevada-coronavirus.amp.html%3f0p19G=6214

“We do a little trolling it’s called we do a little trolling”

This is very depressing

Palmer (2018) and Eid (2018) reaffirm the core findings of the Bell Curve using newer data sets, finding that IQ is a much better predictor of adult poverty than other measures often cited, like parental SES.

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/36853967/dody_eid_ec_970.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y


https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/36853322/Ben_Palmer_Ec_970.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Pierce and Schott (2017) examine the link between trade liberalization and “deaths of despair.” Trade liberalization is measured by loosened import competition in the 1990s, leading to massive dumps of Chinese exports into the U.S. and declines in manufacturing employment. They find that areas exposed to more trade liberalization experienced significant increases in deaths from alcohol, drugs, suicide, etc. This is only seen in white working males.

https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2018/preliminary/paper/kesFZbin