Tuesday Links

Posted on by John C. Goodman

“The average 12th-grade reading scores are now lower than at any time since [the NAEP] reports began publishing 33 years ago. Once again, top performers merely stagnated, but scores from the lowest performers fell through the floor.” (NYT)

“Public housing projects [eradicated] healthy black neighborhoods in cities such as St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit and Washington, along with thousands of black-owned businesses, and replaced with housing projects that later became such social disasters that they had to be demolished using explosives.” (WSJ)

No nation has more rare earth minerals than the US does. 

AARP got $9 billion from UnitedHealth last year.

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