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Get more notes at https://podcastnotes.org Top Premium Takeaways Of The Week​​Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality | Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson (2018)​​ ​​ ​​​Results, Not Intentions:​ Poor people, including African Americans in the United States, were living increasingly better lives throughout the 20th century until the government decided to help (through the welfare state)* “Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the Civil Rights laws and the ‘War on Poverty’ programs of the 1960s, the fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87% in 1940 to 47% in 1960, but over the next 20 years the poverty rate among blacks fell another 18% points. This was just the continuation of a previous economic trend but at a slower rate of progress. It was not some grand deliverance.” – Thomas Sowell​Affirmative Action Hurts: ​“There’s a lot of evidence that there are black kids who have all the qualifications to be successors in college, w