Via Wonk Room’s Zack Ford, a tragi-comedy. The tragedy is the situation reported by Caitlin Ryan of the worthy Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State. Two-thirds of LBGT young people rejected by their parents attempt suicide. The numbers for drug abuse and risky sexual behaviour are almost as bad, though oddly not for alcohol. […]
James Wimberley
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The Wall Street Favela
Is this reverting in a way to this? Is Wall Street becoming a favela? The famous Peruvian development economist Hernando de Soto thinks so. He has argued – and shown in practice – that clear and publicly recorded and legally enforced property rights are a key to ending poverty. Now he offers this robust and […]
