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Economics prof. (emeritus), AEI scholar (emeritus), & ex-blogger. CH❤️ Recovering musician. He/He/He Title IX/VI violation tips: Mark.Perry (at) AEI (dot) org

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Mark J. Perry
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The University of Michigan Has At Least 82 Full-Time Diversity Officers at a Total Annual Payroll Cost of $10.6M. That Would Support Full In-State Tuition for 708 Students.
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Q: What did socialists use before candles? A: Electricity.
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Median Household Income and Share of Births to Unwed Mothers by Race in 2019. See Any Patterns?
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The amazing 80% reduction in world poverty from 42.3% in 1981 to 8.6% in 2018. It probably took 1,000 years to cut the poverty rate in half from to 84% to 42% in 1981; then 24 years to get to 21% in 2005 and then only 10 years to cut it in half again to 10% in 2015. #Capitalism
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Some Data to Ponder Now That Calling America ‘A Land Of Opportunity’ Is Considered to Be A Microaggression
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Just out today: @OhioState has a small army of 132 "diversicrats" at an avg. salary of $77,000 and total est. payroll cost of $13.4M, which would cover in-state tuition for 1,120 students @jennsmola @CollegeFix @FreemanWSJ @stevenfhayward @charliekirk11
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If you fell out of your chair upon realizing that the University of Michigan has a full-time diversity staff of nearly one hundred employees, one of whom earns more than the president of the United States, you can be forgiven. I nearly did too.
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Some interesting Census Bureau data on median household income of Asian Americans vs. White Households.
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5 years
Top 20 Most Dangerous US Jobs and Percent Male, Updated for 2016, New Data for 2017 Will Be Out Later This Month @jordanbpeterson @CHSommers
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Pronoun choices at Georgia State University
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I predict these gender college degree gaps in favor of women will get NO attention again this year. @CHSommers
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Just out from IRS: In 2021, the top 1% of taxpayers (1.53M) paid a record-high 45.8% of all federal income taxes vs. a record low of 34.4% paid by the bottom 95% (146M). But according to Biden and the Democrats, the rich aren't paying their "fair share." What exactly would be the…
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Female share of 2015 bachelor's degrees in Computer Science (18%) is about same as the female share of Google's tech jobs (20%) @chsommers
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Very important chart on why the middle class is "disappearing".....
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Reality Check on the shortage of academically qualified black high school students. In 2022, there were only 2,000 black high school students scoring +1400 on the SAT test vs. a diversity target of ~5K black freshmen for just the Top 20 schools. See the problem with the math?
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Just some of the products made from petroleum.....
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Maybe the most important finding from today's Census Bureau report on Income. Yes, the middle class is disappearing but it's because they're moving up to higher income groups. The share of US households making $100K (2018 $$) has more than tripled since 1967, from 9% to 30.4%.
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Young Black males are 2% of US population but account for 38% of gun homicide deaths. Black males 15-34 were 20 times more likely to die by gun homicide than their white counterparts. More than 50% of all Black teens ages 15-19 who died in 2020 were killed by gun violence.
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@GadSaad @Harvard @MIT @Penn Plus, presidents who resign or get fired don't disappear, they just go back to the faculty and poison students.
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Amazing Chart: The World as 100 People Over the Last Two Centuries
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How many people know this? Men have been a minority in higher education for 40 yrs. Yet we still treat the majority gender as if it's underrepresented & needs resources not available to the minority? @CHSommers @benshapiro @DennisPrager @asheschow @IWF @amyalkon @jordanbpeterson
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CORRECTED: More statistical evidence of the biological male advantage over biological females in athletics. The top track & field/cross country US HIGH SCHOOL BOYS outperform the WORLD's TOP FEMALE athletes in every event @CHSommers @jordanbpeterson @stevenfhayward @Riley_Gaines_
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New data from the National Center for Health Statistics on the percent of US births to unmarried women by race in 2019. Should we be concerned? Should these differences be discussed? @jasonrileywsj @charlesmurray @sullydish @GlennLoury @WSJopinion
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Top 10 Most Dangerous US Jobs in 2021 & Percent Male. Although mostly unrecognized, we owe a HUGE debt of gratitude to the 4,741 men who sacrificed their lives last year in service to Americans engaged in construction, mining, driving trucks, flying planes, logging, fishing, etc.
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CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay a ‘fair share’ of federal taxes, they pay almost everybody’s share
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Warren Buffett: “GM is a health and benefits company with an auto company attached.” Somebody: Harvard is a $50 billion tax-free hedge fund with a university attached. Me: Colleges and universities have gradually become Diversity Indoctrination Centers that dabble in…
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2 years
Even with the same pandemic, high oil prices, and supply chain disruptions as the US, annual inflation is only 0.5% in Japan, 1.6% in Switzerland, 2.9% in France, and 3.6% in Korea vs. 7.5-8% in the US. Maybe the difference is America's monetary/fiscal policy? @wesbury
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This has to be one of the most remarkable achievements ever: Global Poverty Fell Below 10% for 1st Time in 2015
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Go Woke, Go Broke. Target shares have dropped by 15.3% in the last 11 days since the boycott started over LGBTQ-friendly kids clothing, representing an eye-popping loss in its market value of $11.4 billion! #GoWokeGoBroke
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More evidence from today's Census report that the US middle class IS disappearing - UP into higher income groups. Share of US households earning +$100K rose to 34% last year as the share of low/middle income households fell. @stevenfhayward @jhinderaker @benshapiro @DanProftShow
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7 years
The world's most amazing achievement ever? How about the 78% percent reduction in extreme world poverty from 1981 to 2015.
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Calling America "A Land Of Opportunity" Is Now a Microaggression on College Campuses. Maybe Some of These Ethnic Groups Might Disagree?
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9 years
Trigger Warning: Those easily offended could be offended by this message. http://t.co/69NRjjeK7y
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For every white male dollar: Asian Men Earn $1.24
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Christina Hoff Sommers
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What about Asian men? They out-earn all groups—including white men. Why leave them out?
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Huge Gender/Race Earnings Gap: White Men Earned 11% Less Than Asian Women in Q4:2022 ($1,194/wk. vs. $1,392 wk.) and Asian Women Outearned White Men in 5 of the Last 6 Quarters. #FemalePrivilege #AsianPrivilege #SexDiscrimination #RaceDiscrimination @CHSommers @stevenfhayward
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Some staggering gender imbalances in higher education favoring women. Men have been an under-represented minority in higher education for the last 40 yrs. Yet women continue to get special preferences and favoritism in the form of scholarships, fellowships, awards, etc @Chsommers
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The 6.8% increase in median household income last year was the highest on record and about 10X the average increase of 0.72% since 1968.
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Cartoon of the Day @CHSommers
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Here are several: Women have received the majority of biology degrees since 1988 and more than 60% for several decades. Women have received more than 70% of degrees in Health Sciences since the 1970s. Women now receive 80% of Veterinary Medicine degrees.
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Dr. Trevon D Logan
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Every statistic produced about STEM majors, graduate degree holders, and faculty shows that women are under represented. Cite me *one* statistic where women are over represented in STEM. The programs you attack are STEM. Any conflation of STEM w/ all of higher Ed is deceitful.
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Most recent data on high school STEM enrollment by gender shows near gender parity for math and science courses. Can we stop claims of a "STEM crisis" that motivates funding and special programs to address shortage of females in STEM? @CHSommers @AsheSchow @IWF
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SHOCKING: How can the no. of "diversicrats" (126 & growing) at @UMich and the $15.6M (and growing) annual cost possibly be justified? Even UM's Botanical Gardens & Arboretum has a "diversity/inclusion specialist." @GadSaad @RichardLoweryTX @GregGutfled @TuckerCarlson @CHSommers
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Truth.
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11,904 Blacks were shot & killed in 2020, mostly by other Blacks & there were 26.6 homicides per 100K Blacks, 12X the rate for Whites (2.2) & 6X the rate for Hispanics (4.5). That seems like a bigger problem than unarmed Blacks shot/killed by police (8 last year, 4 this year)?
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USA: Land of Opportunity or Land of White Privilege? @CHSommers
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Romanians waiting for Bread (piine) under socialism in 1980 vs. waiting for Apples today @OfficialSPGB
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Does the US really need to re-join the Paris Climate Agreement? 🤔👇
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@pmarca Despite the hype, fantasy and false hopes for renewable energy, fossil fuels will supply more than 75% of US energy in 2050 -- 4X more than renewables (solar, windmills, etc.) -- according to EIA's new Energy Outlook 2022
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Mark J. Perry
6 years
University of Michigan's Small Army of Nearly 100 Diversity Bureaucrats at an Annual Cost of $11M = Full tuition for 765 Students.
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Report: Women earned majority of doctoral degrees in 2017 for 9th straight year & outnumber men in grad school 137 to 100 @CHSommers Prediction: The growing college degree gaps favoring women & under-representation of men in higher ed will get no attention
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2 years
Some crime stats to ponder: Black-on-black homicides in 2019 (most recent year available): 2,574 Unarmed blacks shot by police in 2021 (most recent year available): 8
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AMAZING MAP putting America's $14T economy in perspective- each state is renamed with a country that has similar GDP http://t.co/8YXGBvgLxc
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For Equal Pay Day (Apr. 2): Evidence of employers paying women 20% less than men for the same work is as elusive as Bigfoot sightings - AEI @CHSommers @DennisPrager @JaniceFiamengo @AsheSchow @BenShapiro
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Narrative Destabilizing Fact: In 6 of the last 9 quarters, Asian women out-earned White men. In the most recent quarter, Asian women earned 9.1% more than White men ($1,224/wk. v. $1,122). How to explain? #DisparateImpact ? #AsianPrivilege ? #FemalePrivilege ? @FreemanWSJ @Chsommers
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Based on my complaints with the OCR, nearly US 100 colleges and universities agreed this year to change, discontinue or stop promoting 170 female-only or BIPOC/Black-only programs, awards, fellowships, and scholarships to correct their violations.
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For Perfect/Near-Perfect SAT Math Test Scores, High School Boys Consistently Outnumber Girls by a Ratio of Almost 2-to-1. Could That Explain Female Underrepresentation in Computer Science and Engineering? @CHSommers @amyalkon @jordanbpeterson @BenShapiro @AsheSchow @CollegeFix
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Can't be emphasized enough.....
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Totally illegal, will file a federal civil rights complaint ASAP with the Chicago Office for Civil Rights.
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AP Calculus at Evanston Township H.S. "...the course is restricted to students who identify as Black, all genders." "...the course is restricted to students who identify as Latinx, all genders." Neo-segregation is the absurdity of identitarianism taken to its logical end.
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New Data for Class of 2016: Women Earned >57% of All Bachelor Degrees and Out-Earned Men in 16 out of 29 Major Fields. Prediction: No Concern for Male Degree Gap Overall or Male Gap in Those 16 Fields, Only Concern for Female Degree Gap in Engineering and Comp. Science @CHSommers
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Here are some interesting data on the College Class of 2020 that will get NO attention. @LisaBritton @Cassie_Jaye @JaniceFiamengo @amyalkon @AlyssaRuza @CHSommers @insidehighered @chronicle @AAUW 👇🤔
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The metastasizing "Diversity, Inclusion & Equity" (DIE) bureaucracy at @OhioState . There are 150+ "diversicrats" at an annual cost of $12M (= tuition for 1,000+ in-state students) including 88 staff in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. @jennsmola @TheLantern @CollegeFix
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A 15-year-old boy, probably suffering from toxic masculinity, died protecting his little sister during a burglary, authorities say - @CNN
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We hear a lot about black-white racial academic achievement gaps, not so much about Asian-white gaps. For the 2021 Math SAT the white-black gap of 93 points based on mean scores and 92-point Asian-white gap were ~same. Chart below further illustrates the gaps for 700-800 scores.
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Study finds that ~10% of the gender earnings gap is due to a "gender commute gap," i.e., the greater willingness of women (men) to trade-off a lower (higher) salary for a shorter (longer) commute time. @CHSommers @JaniceFiamengo @IWF @BenShapiro
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Data in the new 2022 Minnesota Uniform Crime Report reveal some shocking "Elephant in the Room" crime data based on race that nobody wants to acknowledge or discuss seriously. @MNThinkTank @Minnesotanomics @scottwjohnson @billglahn @WalterHudson @AlphaNewsMN @stevenfhayward
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Obama's economic record is the worst of any US president in at least the last 60 years.
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JUST OUT: New "Chart of the Century" with data through December 2023. Increases in College Tuition and Fees continue to far outpace increases in Average Wages and the Overall CPI. If College Tuition had increased at the rate of the Overall CPI since 2000, it would be 28% LESS…
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How many small businesses in AZ, WA and ME will close in 2017, unable to afford the equivalent of a $3K "tax" per min. wage employee ?
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Blacks are 12.5% of the US population but account for 33% of violent crimes vs. Asians who are 5.7% of the US population but account for 1.3% of violent crimes.
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Huge 24% Racial Income Gap: White Households Earned Only 76 Cents in 2016 for Every $1 Earned by Typical Asian Household
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Fleeing California: Oracle moving HQ from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas The out-migration from CA to TX is reflected in one-way U-Haul truck rental rates. 👇
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Average state tax per gallon of gas: 30 cents Federal tax per gallon of gas: 18 cents Average profit for a gas station per gallon of gas: 2 cents So who is gouging consumers?
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You can thank the Fed for this.......
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@mslindseybutler @CHSommers @benshapiro @jordanbpeterson @IWF @NSF Women earned majority of doctoral degrees in 2017 for 9th straight year, & outnumber men in grad school 137 to 100. For doctoral degrees in Health/Medial Sciences, women earned 236.7 degrees for every 100 men. For master's degrees it's 400F per 100M
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The best pushback to the misinformation of @GretaThunberg you’ll find | Watts Up With That?
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Updated "Chart of the Century" -- see any patterns?
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Just Out: Updated "Chart of the Century" with CPI (and wage) data through December 2022.
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Based on median salaries, Trump White House gender pay gap is almost 2X (37%) what the media are reporting (20%)
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CHART: Female Share of Bachelor's Degrees, 1971 to 2017. Note that for all of the money, resources, and efforts to increase women in STEM, the female shares of STEM degrees in have been flat for 20 years.🤔 @Chsommers @AsheSchow @JaniceFiamengo @benshapiro @IWF @MedvedSHOW @AAUW
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Just out: @UMich 2021 salaries () reveal 126 diversicrats at an average salary of $93,600 with 38 making >$100K and a shocking record-high of $430,795. Total payroll cost >$15M = in-state tuition for almost 1000 students. @AnnCoulter @GadSaad @CollegeFix
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The amazing 80.5% reduction in world poverty from 42.3% in 1981 to 8.2% in 2019. It probably took 1,000 yrs to cut the poverty rate in half from 84% to 42% in 1981; then 24 yrs to get to 21% in 2005 & then only 10 yrs to cut it in half from 17% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2019 #Capitalism
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Moscow residents say they have found that the only way to get the council to clear snow is to write the name of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on it.
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