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What Do Economists Think about the Minimum Wage?

The playwright George Bernard Shaw once said that if you laid all the world’s economists end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. President Truman allegedly once asked for a one-handed economist, who would be unable to say “on the other hand…” Economists richly deserve such jokes. But there are still issues where economists overwhelmingly agree, regardless of politics, ideology, or methodology. One of those issues is the minimum wage. Economists are far more likely to be against it than the general public. Read the article with my highlights .

Are We All Unconscious Racists?

A deep dive into the science behind implicit bias. "Few academic ideas have been as eagerly absorbed into public discourse in recent years as 'implicit bias.' Embraced by a president, a would-be president, and the nation’s top law-enforcement official, the implicit-bias conceit has launched a movement to remove the concept of individual agency from the law and spawned a multimillion-dollar consulting industry. The statistical basis on which it rests is now crumbling, but don’t expect its influence to wane anytime soon. Read the source article with my highlights .

Cities bracing for potential unrest after presidential election as gun sales rise

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  " Gun sales surged 65% in the month of October as this year's figures show a continued "record firearm sales pace" amid  unrest and uncertainty , according to statistics released Monday. An estimated 1.9 million firearms were sold in October this year, a 65% spike from the same month in 2019, according to data provided by Small Arms Analytics and Forecasting (SAAF), a research group that examines the raw data obtained from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS." Source

'You are no longer my mother': How the election is dividing American families

"When lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she was voting for Donald Trump in Tuesday’s presidential election, he cut her out of his life." Source article  

Twitter backs down, unlocks the New York Post's account WITHOUT making them delete their prior tweets.

 Major win against big tech censorship! Suck it, Twitter.  How tweet it is: Twitter backs down, unlocks Post’s account