Kamala Harris’s Position on Fracking Sparks Distrust in Pennsylvania
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2019 pledge to ban fracking and her subsequent allegedly failed actions remind working-class Pennsylvanians of why highbrow politicians are generally distrusted and disliked. “The road to power is paved with hypocrisy,” as Frank Underwood, a character in the Netflix series House of Cards, put it best. Harris’ sudden […]
Kamala Harris’s Position on Fracking Sparks Distrust in Pennsylvania
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2019 pledge to ban fracking and her subsequent allegedly failed actions remind working-class Pennsylvanians of why highbrow politicians are generally distrusted and disliked. “The road to power is paved with hypocrisy,” as Frank Underwood, a character in the Netflix series House of Cards, put it best. Harris’ sudden […]
Data distrust surges as Americans reject government collection efforts
Mark Twain famously said, “There are three kinds of lies.” “Lies, damn lies, and statistics.” You already know that statistics published by the government are unreliable. Federal agencies have changed their methodologies over the years, making data sets difficult to compare. In economic modeling, there is a concept called “GIGO” (garbage in, garbage out). And […]