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“[When] policymakers blame automation for job losses, they are looking in the wrong place.”
By Oren Cass
Economics21
June 28, 2019
Based on Issues 2020
   
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In the first of the Issues 2020 series, Oren Cass explains how politicians have been throwing robots under the self-driving bus to avoid taking responsibility for the real problems they have caused in the economy.
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“We automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, and those communities have never recovered. What happened to the manufacturing workers is now going to happen to the truck drivers, retail workers, call centers, fast food workers, and on and on through the economy.”
— Andrew Yang, entrepreneur
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“The idea that automation 'destroys jobs' has intuitive appeal because machines have a physical presence and robots can be anthropomorphized. But it makes no more sense than claiming that a new training program 'destroys jobs.' Boosts in productivity, whether through automation or training, are by definition the key to rising wages for workers and prosperity for society.”
— Oren Cass, MI scholar
Photo: Brett Ziegler, U.S. News & World Report
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James R. Copland responds to the Supreme Court’s major rulings in the last week of the 2018-2019 term.
By James R. Copland
Manhattan Institute
June 27, 2019
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By locking out gas, New York governor Andrew Cuomo is locking in higher energy prices (and carbon dioxide emissions).
By Robert Bryce
National Review Online
June 28, 2019
Based on a new report
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“[Mayor de Blasio] deliberately reopened an issue — regarding race and the police — that rocked New York in 2014 and nearly derailed his mayoralty.”
By Seth Barron
New York Post
June 28, 2019
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Why shouldn’t law schools be run as trade schools?
By Mark Pulliam
City Journal Online
June 27, 2019
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Don’t validate the Left’s self-cherishing fantasy.
By Myron Magnet
City Journal Online
June 27, 2019
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