Community Checkup

Bloggingheads recently posted a great discussion between Glenn Loury (Brown University economist) and Heather McDonald (of Manhattan Institute) about the NYC school system incentives program. Since this program was implemented last June, it has been something that has bothered me to no end. From a 2007 NYT article:
NEW YORK CITY has decided [...]

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Now for a more lighthearted post as the weekend comes to an end. Many of you have probably already seen the website, Stuff White People Like. Well, now there is a black counterpart called, Stuff Educated Black People Like . I found it to be pretty hilarious (and humorously true), [...]

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This judge must truly have been fed up when he decided to kick white lawyers out of his court room so that he could lecture the black defendants on their wayward lifestyles.
On CNN, the judge, Marvin Arrington, had this to say:
I came out and saw the defendants, and it was about 99.9 percent Afro-Americans, and [...]

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How backwards is this?
Some Katrina survivors are being asked to pay back government grant money that was in excess of what they were supposed to have received. The contractor for managing the grants is looking to hire companies to get the loot:
The contractor, ICF International of Fairfax, Va., revealed the extent of the overpayments [...]

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