The media tends to use the narrowest racial definitions in order to stoke anxiety because that brings readers, but those definitions are arbitrary and more inclusive racial definitions are more accurate because the biggest growth is the rise in interracial…
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Many whites are uneasy about becoming a minority in America. It isn’t happening. They should relax.
Posted in Discrimination, Labor
Median income of black men compared with white men in America
Via Kevin Drum. Presumably this is using personal income. There has been progress towards greater equality in the past half century. The ratio went from 59% up to 73% over this time, but nearly all of the change happened between…
Posted in Discrimination
Occupational licensing is the new unionization
Back in 2011, which kind of license would cost more money to obtain in New York City, A) a license to practice medicine or B) a license to drive a taxicab? In 2011, a taxi cab license cost over $1 million.…
Posted in Inequality, Labor
Keep marriage within the family?
Robin Fox believes that 80% of all marriages in all of history were between second cousins or closer relatives, but that has been changing rapidly since the advent of industrialization. Today, only about 10% of marriages are consanguineous. Little of…
Posted in Labor
Naming aspirations
If “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” does it matter what names we have? Rafael Cruz thinks so. He is better known by his nickname, Ted Cruz, the 2016 presidential candidate from Texas who prefers a stereotypically Anglo name, Ted,…
Posted in Discrimination, Labor
Artificial intelligence will dominate more and more of society. Will it be racist and sexist?
Brian Resnick explains research that our systems of artificial intelligence have learned to perpetuate racism and sexism just like people do. “Many people think machines are not biased,” Princeton computer scientist Aylin Caliskan says. “But machines are trained on human…
Beer Companies Don’t Care About The Median Drinker
Updated December 20, 2018 Mark Kleiman has done some of the most insightful policy analysis of illegal drugs available. He argues that home grown marijuana should be legal (and polls show that the majority of Americans have agreed for some…
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