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  • Let’s Base Policy on Real Facts, Not Misleading Statistics [The Myth of American Inequality]

    10/12/2023 4:40:27 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 10 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | January 05, 2023 | Michael Barone
    From all those lists of best books of 2022, here’s one with the potential to change public policy debate and discourse for the better. It’s The Myth of American Inequality, and the three authors are two Ph.D. economists, former Sen. Phil Gramm and his long-ago Texas A&M colleague Robert Ekelund, and former Bureau of Labor Statistics assistant commissioner John Early. Their subject is government statistics — and how they present a misleading picture.. the authors’ conclusion is that long-standing complaints about the American economy — that the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer, that we declared war on...