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Saturday Links

Posted on October 28, 2023October 27, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Eating two extra fries, chips, gummy bears or a single teaspoon of ice cream on a given day cancels out the calorie effect of reduced consumption due to sugar sweetened beverage taxes.
Whole Foods founder launches “cash only” health company.
Explaining the economic development gap: While the printing press spread rapidly in Western Europe after its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450, the Ottomans prohibited its use for almost 250 years.
In 2019, the federal government spent $5,595 per child on programs benefiting children compared to $29,189 on the average senior.

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Saturday Links

Posted on October 21, 2023October 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman

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Saturday Links

Posted on October 7, 2023October 6, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Biden supports striking health care workers over patients. Actually, the president appears to believe every worker should get more pay – meaning, I suppose, we should all pay more for everything we buy.
Lancet study on warming: In 2021, more than 2.5 billion hours of labor in the U.S. agriculture, construction, manufacturing and service sectors were lost to heat exposure.
Sen. Tim Scott was right: Thomas Sowell points out that in 1960—almost 100 years after slavery—only 22% of African-American children grew up in homes with one parent. Thirty years later, after the expansion of the welfare state under the Great Society, that percentage had tripled. (WSJ)
Should medical debt be banned from credit reports? (NYT)
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Army used blowers on top of buildings and in the backs of station wagons to spray a potential carcinogen into the air surrounding a St. Louis housing project where most residents were Black. More here

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Saturday Links

Posted on September 30, 2023September 30, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Marriage is a class thing: roughly half of all births to women without four-year college degrees now happen without married fathers.
Should doctors have to pay the insurers a fee in order to get paid what they are owed?
Avoiding a hospital stay may improve your odds of survival.
Intergenerational poverty: 17% of Asian children living in households with incomes below or near the poverty line were poor in adulthood, compared with 25% (Latino), 29% (White), 37% (Black), and 46% (Native American)
Health Savings Account bills being marked up in the W & M Committee in the House.

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