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  • The Economic and Human Costs of Protecting Criminals

    By Jason L. Riley - January 11, 2023

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    Principles of Government · July 26, 2023 ·

    By Jason L. Riley – A 2021 paper published by the University of Chicago’s Journal of Law and Economics put annual spending on policing and corrections at about $250 billion. Meanwhile, a study released the same year by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation “conservatively estimated” that the yearly cost of personal and property crimes in the U.S. is $2.6 trillion. By that comparison, it’s hard to conclude that we spend too much money on law enforcement. What’s even harder is putting a price on the psychic burden of crime—the constant fear that you or a loved one will become a victim Read More

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    The High Cost of Free Money

    By Allysia Finley - July 18, 2022

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    Principles of Government · July 21, 2023 ·

    By Allysia Finley – Researchers gave cash to low-income people. It led them to spend more and work less. Did pandemic stimulus payments harm lower-income Americans? That’s the implication of a new study by social scientists at Harvard and the University of Exeter.

    Liberals argue that no-strings-attached handouts encourage better financial decisions and healthier lifestyles. The theory is that low-income folks become more future-oriented if they’re less stressed about making ends meet. The Harvard study put this hypothesis to the test and found the opposite. Read More

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    Ex-Liberal Fred Siegel Saw New York Fall and Rise – Steven Malanga

    By Steven Malanga - May 9, 2023

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    Principles of Government · August 26, 2023 ·

    Steven Malanga – As a New Yorker, Siegel had witnessed the city’s rapid deterioration under … a vast expansion of crime and social disorder. Siegel and other conservative intellectuals at the Manhattan Institute argued that the sharp rise in urban chaos wasn’t inevitable or irreversible…In fact, disorder was a choice. By cutting police and sanitation budgets to boost welfare spending, …The worse things got, the more the city invested in addressing the supposed underlying causes of crime rather than re-establishing order. Siegel … called this “rewarding failure.” … Read More Read More

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    New York vs. Florida, by the Numbers

    By The Editorial Board - Feb. 9, 2023

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    Principles of Government · February 11, 2023 ·

    By The Editorial Board – WSJ – Some numbers tell a story about comparative governance. Comparative governance is a useful course of study, not least because bad governance is so costly to people and prosperity. We often write about the migration from the Northeast to Florida and other states, but sometimes the contrast is best illuminated with some data. Read More

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    Disparity Doesn’t Necessarily Imply Racism

    By Roland Fryer - Nov. 25, 2022

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    Principles of Government · December 4, 2022 ·

    By Roland Fryer – “We find,” they wrote in the abstract of their paper, “that this one test score explains all of the black-white wage gap for young women and much of the gap for young men.” With their approach, antiblack bias played no role in the divergent wages among women; a black woman with the same qualifications as a white woman made slightly more money. And it accounted for at most 29% of the racial difference among men, with 71% traceable to disparate performance on the AFQT. The AFQT itself was evaluated by the Pentagon, which found that black and white military recruits with similar AFQT scores performed similarly on the job—indicating no racial bias. Read More

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