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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Borrok: How we should think about welfare

Borrok: How we should think about welfare

March 1, 2020

I came across a tweet last week that posed the following thought experiment: If public school bussing didn’t exist, and it was proposed this year as a new policy proposal, would it pass? I was taken...

Lamps: The United States should greatly expand foreign aid spending

Lamps: The United States should greatly expand foreign aid spending

December 4, 2015

In the United States, the federal government spends the majority of its money on social programs like welfare, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. As a result, our absolute poverty rate has dramatically...

Jaro: Doing a cost-benefit analysis on economics education

Jaro: Doing a cost-benefit analysis on economics education

October 12, 2012

You’d have to live in a cave not to know that American students are falling behind their international peers in standardized tests of math and science competency. We’re told ad nauseam that without...

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