Is There Anything a New York Times Columnist Will Not Say? II
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?
Robert Greenstein:
Commentary: How Effective Is the Safety Net?: [Nicholas] Kristof… a significant misjudgment… says that despite the growth of various social programs… the poverty rate is no lower… than… in the late 1960s… conclude[s] that the current system… doesn’t reduce poverty…. [T]he comparison of today’s poverty rate to the rate in the 1960s isn’t valid…. Kristof overlooks recent research showing that safety-net programs lift millions of people out of poverty and… have positive long-term effects on children’s outcomes.
The ignorance. It burns...
