Charles Murray
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Political scientist, born in 1943, whose Losing Ground (1984) argued that US welfare programs from the 1960s on made poverty worse by rewarding behaviour that…
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Reversing a cause of a social problem does not necessarily solve it years later (opens korrents.com)
“And, as years went on after Losing Ground, I became a lot more aware of the way in which something can be a cause of a problem at one point in time, but reversing it isn’t necessarily going to be the solution to the…”
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The 1960s social reforms were a major contributor to rising out-of-wedlock births (opens korrents.com)
“I will still defend the proposition that the social reforms of the 1960s were a major contributor to the acceleration of out-of-wedlock births.”
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Abolishing welfare would not restore the old norms around family formation (opens korrents.com)
“And so, I had to come with terms to the fact that I don’t think getting rid of the welfare system would in any way fully restore the same kind of milieu, in which teenage boys and teenage girls made decisions about…”
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Reversing a cause of a social problem does not necessarily solve it years later (opens korrents.com)