You could have stopped reading when you read that a house has more impact on outcomes than education, workforce participation and other self managed behaviors. Booker T. Washington and George W. Carver were both born slaves, and built one of the best universities in the US, along with hundreds of inventions. Their houses had nothing at all to do with their success. The appalling level of "scholarship" shown by some of these "researchers" should lead to a condemnation of the institutions that certified that they're qualified to do anything higher than flipping burgers.

Makes me wonder if that Asian exclusion was deliberate.

Asians? What Asians? You wealthy people all look alike.

Now... Focus on the Wage Gap. It's all about the Wage Gap. Waaaaaggggeeee GGGaaappp.

Ok, stealing that one. Of course I hardly ever go to Marxist rallys anymore...but I do know a lot of teens and slightly older kids with a bad case of "entitleitis"...

Having been personally very involved in the "housing crisis" of 2007, et al, I know that it was not caused by "greedy banks, et al" but by our wonderful US Congress who kept pushing and pushing lenders to grant loans to people who were not qualified. I was shocked that these people could get loans. Well, given the flood of bad mortgages on the market, banks did the only thing that they could, i.e., package them up and sell them. It is true that two things were going on. First, the "not so smart" managers and brokers were selling these as Grade AAA instruments. This analysis was based on the Gaussian copula function that assumes to sets of funds have high correlation, which was not true. Second, smart traders saw this and traded against it. Bottom line - congress pulls a fast one, banks respond in the wrong way, housing market collapse, banks get blamed. Blame your ditzy congressional representative. Oh, and guess what? They are doing it again. Trade CDOs.

I'm going to remember that one: "inverted reality argument". Excellent,

I'm liking that term as well. "Inverted reality argument".

Take an action, when that action utterly fails or otherwise causes disaster, blame your opponent for the action and therefore pin the blame on your opponent.

C'mon Salty, all those failures were one-offs (ok, maybe 1000-offs). These guys are so much smarter, this "study" so much more perfect, they'll get it right THIS time, really.

Did they mention housing? Hey, why don't we force banks to lend to under-qualified minority people at sub-prime rates and...what? Tried that? Didn't work out too well? Darn.

And I have to say that one "fact" in particular jumped out at me as, well, highly questionable: "Consider also that most people on Social Security today went to segregated schools." Seriously? OK, I lived in the Midwest, no segregated schools. Northeast, anyone? The West? I just can't accept that statistic UNLESS, and here's my theory: they define "segregated" as "effectively segregated"...not legally by the State mind you, it's just where blacks happened to live made their schools segregated. You see, after awhile you can see how these people "think", and no it's not enlightened.

And I always wondered, but was pretty sure. so I looked it up: The HuffPo was found by Arianna Huffington. As I recall, in her early days of grabbing the spotlight, she was conservative. Does that make her the female David Brock? Or maybe he's done a Bruce Jenner, and she IS David Brock.

What...utter...trash.

PS: Sorry, Salty. You had one fact wrong: Marxism's failure was not in ALL the papers: it failed to make Pravda, and probably the NYT...

The model for eliminating the "gaps" has been around for over 150 years. It began in Japan and was picked up by Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, even Communist China, India, Israel, Botswana, Brazil, etc. Don't tell me that those are countries and minorities are helpless waifs. The same principles apply.

Not even air, Neal. Some places are filled with smog, or too windy, or dusty, or polluted with carbon monoxide or landfill stench. Fresh air is mostly made indoors anymore, with mechanical devices.