Don't Believe the People Blaming Crime on Defunded Police
It's a tale as old as time that politicians benefit by whipping up crime panic and accusing opponents of being soft on the issue.
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It's a tale as old as time that politicians benefit by whipping up crime panic and accusing opponents of being soft on the issue.
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The upside of losing parental leave from the Build Back Better plan
By Martha J. Bailey, Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles, Shuqiao Sun, Economist, World Bank, and Brenden Timpe, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska. Originally published at VoxEU. Preschool attendance in the US is largely funded by parents, which means that the children of more affluent and educated parents are more likely to attend. This column looks at the impact of Head Start, a large-scale preschool programme that serves roughly 1 million children annually in the US. The results show that children age-eligible for Head Start went ...