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A Rebuttal to Rep. Colston’s ‘Structural Racism’ Devotional/Diatribe

Posted on EAI Blog by David Flemming · February 25, 2021 12:18 PM · 4 reactions

On February 16, Rep. Hal Colston, (D-Winooski) gave the daily devotional on the virtual floor of the Vermont House. Afterward, Rep. Scott Beck (R-St. Johnsbury) took the unusual action of requesting that it be put in the House journal. The devotional is a diatribe of all things Colston considers racist.

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Sanders and Minimum Wage Effects

Posted on EAI Blog by John & Anne McClaughry · February 17, 2021 2:17 PM · 1 reaction

Bernie Sanders has made it this year’s great cause to increase the federal minimum wage to $15. But regulatory law expert Mario Loyola writes that “Americans don’t fully understand … the many ways it hurts the very people it’s supposed to help. As the National Bureau of Economic Research concludes  “The data show that increasing the minimum wage results in a significant net increase in unemployment. The increase is particularly pronounced among young adults — and most pronounced of all among low-skilled workers.

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Flint Water Crisis Revisited: Different Verdicts for GOP & Dems

Posted on EAI Blog by John & Anne McClaughry · February 10, 2021 11:10 AM · 1 reaction

Five years ago I wrote a column explaining the Flint Michigan lead-polluted city drinking water disaster. At the root of it was a government project to build a new water supply system from Lake Michigan, sold as a jobs creation program for the distressed industrial city.

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Biden and Jefferson

Posted on EAI Blog by John & Anne McClaughry · January 28, 2021 11:19 AM · 1 reaction

President Biden did a pretty good job on his inaugural address.  His theme was unity, and his speechwriters decorated it with lots of good words like hope, truth, honor, respect, tolerance, goodness, faith, and of course democracy. He also listed half a dozen of the great causes he intends to address, which left me a bit apprehensive.

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40 Years of Left Wing Policy Failure

Posted on EAI Blog by Rob Roper · January 12, 2021 10:47 AM · 2 reactions

The Public Assets Institute (PAI) recently released a report, “The State of Working Vermont 2020.” It provides a good overall picture of the economic stagnation Vermont has experienced over the past several decades.

For 40 years, Vermont created an average of 4,700 new jobs a year. The best year, 1978, saw an increase of more than 12,000 new jobs. But after the turn of the century, job growth flattened. Vermont employers averaged fewer than 1,000 new jobs a year between 2000 and 2019. The high point was 2012, when 3,800 jobs were added.

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The Detroit Riot Lawsuits

Posted on EAI Blog by John & Anne McClaughry · January 07, 2021 10:29 AM · 3 reactions

After the Detroit riots following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, an umbrella organization of racial justice groups called Will Breathe Detroit sued the city last August, arguing that its police officers repeatedly responded to protesters with violence.

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Top 10 Posts of 2020 from the EAI Blog

Posted on EAI Blog by Rob Roper · December 30, 2020 2:26 PM · 1 reaction

2020 was an unprecedented year. From Covid-19 outbreaks, to entire swaths of the economy shut down, to peaceful/violent protests, we saw a little bit of everything. And while their may seem to be more bad news than good this year, the tail end of 2020 has brought hope with a Covid-19 vaccine. As we yearn to turn the calendar to January, it may help us to reflect on the most meaningful cultural and political events of 2020, to make us wiser for the future decisions we will make in 2021. 

The Ethan Allen Institute Blog is a forum for our members and followers to post and share a variety of perspectives on topical issues. We encourage diverse, and civil debate. These opinions do not necessarily reflect the position of the Institute. We post on our blog a couple times a week, which means that we’ve published over 100 pieces this year. We decided to look at the numbers, to see which posts you thought were most popular and relevant to the statewide dialogue.

Here are the top 10 posts of 2020 from the EAI Blog. We look forward to connecting with you on the Blog in 2021!

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Thanks to Workers

Posted on EAI Blog by John & Anne McClaughry · December 17, 2020 12:34 PM

The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan offered an important thought in a column last week. She wrote about some research finding “unexpected gifts of the pandemic..."

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Walter Williams, R.I.P.

Posted on EAI Blog by John & Anne McClaughry · December 04, 2020 10:56 AM

I Just Do My Own Thing': Walter Williams, RIP – Reason.comI was saddened to learn this month of the death of one of my favorite economists, Dr.  Walter Williams of George Mason University.

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How You Can Weaken Facebook’s Leverage in 5 Minutes

Posted on EAI Blog by David Flemming · November 20, 2020 3:40 PM

Does Facebook treat content from some groups unfairly? It depends on how you define “unfair.” If you mean, “making a rigid effort to constrict any non-politically correct news,” that I would say no.

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