According to a spate of recent economic research , in-utero shocks to the mother can produce deleterious consequences for the infant's adult economic outcomes. During the first World War, a prominent British politician campaigned against the issuance of helmets. He cited the statistic that head wounds had increased twelve times over since the government had started issuing steel helmets to all soldiers in Hint: someone shot in the head without a helmet dies, while someone shot in the head with a helmet β¦receives a head wound.
In response to the above claims, Ed Brayton of freethoughtblogs. In both of those studies, whites who were pulled over and searched were actually more likely to have illegal drugs or contraband in their vehicles. In New Jersey, whites were twice as likely to be found with illegal drugs or contraband than blacks and five times more likely than Latinos.
The same thing held true in Maryland. In June of , the New York Times reported that over half of all black people in New York City of working age did not have a job in The average search time for a black New Yorker was a full year, considerably longer than the average search duration for whites.
The number of discouraged black workers was 40,, compared to 22, discouraged white workers. Again, black people make up only about a quarter of the population of New York. None of these numbers tells the whole story, nor do they paint a complete picture altogether.
Be wary of anyone who claims that they do. A new charity group, Library for All, has figured out how to bring books to Haitian children in a way that would make Occam and his razor very, very proud. Have you heard that money buys happiness? That's right, your parents lied to you again. In a recent global survey, researchers demonstrated that wealth is a key variable that can explain the disparity of happiness between countries.
