NR Daily: What Noah Smith Gets Wrong about Poverty

Almost none of his key claims are exactly true.

July 31 2019

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What Noah Smith Gets Wrong about Poverty

Kevin D. Williamson

Social spending of all kinds creates incentives and disincentives. Economic treatments of fundamentally non-economic social problems are not likely to produce good results. Read More

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