Monthly Archives: September 2022

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

1) @besttrousers said I was “incorrect” and suggested I was reading the wrong chart.

2) I was correct and reading the right chart. https://t.co/bP6LMATiu4

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 13, 2022

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September 12, 2022 at 10:31PM
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I think I am reading Table 10 correctly, as it regards the rise in workforce participation by single mothers without a high school degree, which is what I said. It rose 17.16 percentage points, of which 2.59 was attributed to time limits and 7.13 to work requirements. https://t.co/sG6I2EUJGl

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 12, 2022

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September 12, 2022 at 01:27PM
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The Slate story (by Rebecca Liss) originally appeared a year after 9/11. I repost it every year. It’s one of Slate’s most read pieces. The Oliver Stone WTC movie came out years later and made it into a less good story while getting things wrong https://t.co/KnMF81K9ZD https://t.co/2OzXP0vGy4

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 12, 2022

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September 12, 2022 at 02:41AM
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Also Moore: ‘Just don’t broaden the message to including restricting mass immigration or you aren’t getting any money from my rich friends.’ https://t.co/IwEX09kzVO

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 12, 2022

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September 12, 2022 at 02:26AM
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Requirement that Trump believe a classified document “could be used to the injury of the United States” seems a way bigger obstacle than Lodal lets on. a) Given overclassification, might not be true about a given document; b) Crazy Trump might well in good faith not believe it. https://t.co/om42djlmXM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 12, 2022

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September 12, 2022 at 02:09AM
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 12, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 09:14PM
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Here is a credible study (via @swinshi) concluding that more than half of the large increase in work participation by single moms without a high school degree was due to work requirements and time limits, both features of the ’96 reform https://t.co/5os7ByL2eG https://t.co/4oATEcRvda

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 07:53PM
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A point even @JasonDeParle doesn’t dare make in this v-fair article is that the most rapid decline in child poverty occurred under Trump (2017-2019). Was it because of previously planned aid changes–or because Trump raised wages at the bottom (in part by limiting immigration)? https://t.co/egRSb3uHwE

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 07:23PM
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” …despite fears of a rise in deep poverty (living on less than half the poverty line) has fallen by 56 percent.” … https://t.co/KxDXOYBI6l

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 07:17PM
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“If you work, we will help you — Americans like that message…” https://t.co/KxDXOYBI6l

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 07:13PM
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But the ’96 welfare reform (1) is a good part of what caused the increased labor force participation among single mothers” and (2) is also what allowed politicians to increase government aid–because it wasn’t going to non-workers.

Clinton emphasized (2) when signing the bill https://t.co/tg4MvEyHdP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 07:01PM
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With a Clintonian work-based welfare state, not only are voters more willing to be generous, but you can heap on benefits without threat of creating a non-work culture.

Left foolish to abandon this successful formula (per NYT) for the no-work dole approach of Biden “tax credit” https://t.co/nopnaXYtRH

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 06:57PM
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“Progressives say many working families would still be poor without the expanded safety net, which grew in part to compensate for stagnant wages amid decades of rising inequality.”
But net also grew because it was based on work–a key point of ’96 reform https://t.co/KxDXOYBI6l

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 06:51PM
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“The plunge in child poverty is the opposite of what most liberal experts predicted a quarter-century ago when President Bill Clinton signed a law from a Republican Congress to ‘end welfare as we know it.'”

Also contradicts what liberals are still saying NOW about welfare reform https://t.co/egRSb3uHwE

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 06:45PM
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Seems like this has been obvious for a couple of months https://t.co/VCK1h6uPNA Painfully slow donor-influenced GOP decision cycle. If they were an F-16 in a dogfight they’d be shot down. https://t.co/eHhmisyIXy

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 06:03PM
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There is a sound Darwinian explanation for this, no? (Progeny-wise, you are competing with other people …) https://t.co/2OFLIS7WSh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 05:48PM
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Has @cafreeland frozen his bank account yet? https://t.co/xhScgHy1SZ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 11, 2022

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September 11, 2022 at 04:16PM
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Because Mayorkas is letting in as many illegals as he can get away with politically. Seems obvious. https://t.co/3v4pXuEOtH

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 10, 2022

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September 10, 2022 at 05:25PM
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“The best case for Republicans is to have this be a referendum on the Biden administration and Democratic governance, especially inflation, IMMIGRATION and crime,” When even Mr. Win-Latinos-With-Amnesty @WhitAyres tells GOP to focus on Biden border policy https://t.co/BKsy2gWndJ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 10, 2022

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September 10, 2022 at 05:21PM
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“And the British model of importing large amounts of cheap unskilled foreign labor has led to productivity lower than that even of France, a fact which I find incredible.” — Nigel Farage https://t.co/vkkfV2Kc9L

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 10, 2022

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September 10, 2022 at 04:59PM
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A question to ask ex-US Attorney Geoffrey Berman on his book tour. https://t.co/T6hnAPlRou

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 9, 2022

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September 09, 2022 at 06:05PM
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Acosta didn’t have possession of the tapes https://t.co/u52K9h9gYL

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 9, 2022

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September 09, 2022 at 05:01PM
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