New Parrot Room is up. Jeffrey Epstein and Eric Weinstein and Jill Biden and Robert Durst walk into a bar . . . https://t.co/MFxglceM6I
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 11:04PM
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Never let me near an open flame
https://t.co/FiOWGxU12a
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 10:49PM
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The good news was in 2019 https://t.co/wNWNl20O0O https://t.co/qNkqmkXhMR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 10:37PM
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Nope. “[C]hild poverty overall fell between 1996 and 2014.” https://t.co/UrVF80JXq9 Hit record low in 2019 https://t.co/wNWNl20O0O https://t.co/kKRNrMONNN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 10:12PM
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BS. “Child poverty overall fell between 1996 and 2014.” It reached a record low in 2019. https://t.co/wNWNl20O0O https://t.co/TBPDcn6SlK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 10:08PM
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“Practically no children of single mothers were living on $2 a day in either 1996 or 2012 (the latest year for which we have reliable statistics), once the receipt of all government benefits are factored in …” https://t.co/UrVF80JXq9 See also https://t.co/WGBObIyWIs https://t.co/Wy9kM8EpBB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 10:03PM
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Never let me near an open flame https://t.co/3NCPYgmJqE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 09:50PM
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“[B]etween 1993 and 2000, the percentage of low-income, single mothers with a job grew from 58 percent to nearly 75 percent…[E]mployment among never-married mothers,..grew from 44 percent to 66 percent… these sweeping changes are unprecedented.” https://t.co/vLEQ63NguN https://t.co/HcT21MTRAO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 17, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 09:39PM
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“…at a time when the U.S.-Mexico border is overwhelmed with people crossing illegally into the United States. Word that Democrats are considering an amnesty gambit will be one more incentive for them to come — and they have surely heard of it even as we speak. ” https://t.co/wxX6V4OuFA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 02:12PM
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Wait, Milley is still there? Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? Whether he’s right or wrong he’s so completely politicized himself I assumed he’d retired and was heading off on the college lecture circuit. He should quit, no?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 02:00PM
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“They pine for a return to debating the Kiddie Tax or privatizing Social Security. They are polite and naïve. To the activist Left, they look like a meal.” https://t.co/qMswoPIUwI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 01:54PM
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Would @TheAtlantic publish this article? I don’t know. Think the Slack would kill it. https://t.co/07OZpEHrkQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 01:44PM
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Huge Dem reconciliation bill may tank smaller bipartisan bill. And ‘progressive’ Dems will be soooo unhappy if that happens. … https://t.co/WOXvRYAOxi (Plus some more hints that Dem moderates in the House may not go for whole enchilada.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 01:36PM
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>>> https://t.co/wP09w2R28n
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Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 08:55AM
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I’ve Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe’s Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Boggling. https://t.co/SGUTXetA0E
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 04:54AM
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The ’96 welfare reform’s effect on family structure is much less obvious than effects on work or income-if there was any effect at all. But here’s another graph suggesting *something* good started happening around ’96 in terms of kids living with 2 parents https://t.co/eqRcZjeoG7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 04:28AM
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It’s the second example today. Here was the first: https://t.co/HqzCPAqto0
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Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 02:14AM
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Never much liked the “Supplemental Poverty Measure” (it measures inequality, not absolute poverty). But damned if it doesn’t show a sharp, sustained drop in child poverty right around the passage of the ’96 welfare reform (which Biden’s now undermining) https://t.co/HbFNq0mtiH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 02:12AM
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Another example of the Law of Success Stories–here press focuses on troubled foster kid who found work…at nonprofit helping troubled foster kids! They never work as mechanics or waitresses. Always at very outfit that’s supposed to help them find work https://t.co/dbr01HJDa4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 02:01AM
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$35 million not going to go very far … https://t.co/dbr01HJDa4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 16, 2021 at 01:45AM
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If you’re going to boast how your “tax credit” checks go to “working families,” why not restrict the checks to working families? Biden’s plan explicitly–triumphantly, from the perspective of the left–does not do that. This is what he is trying to hide.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 15, 2021 at 10:05PM
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Right. But he’s also trying to send welfare to non-working people by pretending they are really “hard-working” — old Dem welfare trick (until Bill Clinton came along and briefly substituted a clear-eyed picture of welfare population). https://t.co/ba0H8PrX6k
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 15, 2021 at 09:36PM
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Could have been @GeneSperling46 calling over and telling the “official” quoted by Newsweek to come up with some stat STAT. The official “spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal analyses.” Not confidence-inspiring. https://t.co/7C1k0pIXSO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 15, 2021 at 09:29PM
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CORRECTION: I was thinking of *new* recipient families to whom Biden is now providing the “refundable” credit. They seem likely to be non-workers. There are also those who got partial–not full–credits before. Would be good to know how many of them are working/”hard-working” https://t.co/FV3iEbNxjL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 15, 2021 at 09:23PM
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You wonder what this official/unofficial Treasury calculation means by “have a job or a source of self-employed income.” One dollar in self-employment income? $100 in a year? $0–but have a ‘source.” Strongly suspect it is not what most people mean by “have a job” or ‘work.’ https://t.co/7C1k0pIXSO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 16, 2021
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July 15, 2021 at 08:59PM
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