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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Scholar: Rand Paul misstated my research on unemployment"
Scholar: Rand Paul misstated my research on unemploymentBy Michael Hiltzik at the LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-rand-paul-20140107,0,6889404.story#axzz2qL0LIZSZ
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But Ghayad says Paul's wrong to attribute to his work the further conclusion that the provision of unemployment benefits for longer periods explains the persistence of unemployment, especially long-term unemployment. "Just because companies discriminate against the long-term unemployed doesn't mean long-term benefits are to blame," Ghayad wrote in the Atlantic. "Paul might know that if he read beyond the first line of my paper's abstract."
The first line of the abstract reads, "Many analyses (point) to extended unemployment benefits as a reason" for persistent unemployment." The second line reads: "However, other explanations have also been proposed for this shift, including worsening structural unemployment."
The dispute is important because the idea that unemployment benefits foster unemployment is a key argument raised by conservatives against the extension of the benefits. The Senate approved a three-month extension Tuesday for 1.3 million Americans whose benefits ran out on New Year's Eve. But the extension faces stiff opposition in the GOP-controlled House.
In his essay, Paul doesn't cite any evidence for the notion that unemployment benefits encourage joblessness. In fact, he's expressed that viewpoint so often that he doesn't even mention it explicitly in the piece, beyond a generalized swipe at "well-intentioned, big-hearted, but small-brained responses to real problems." It's treated as a given.
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"Scholar: Rand Paul misstated my research on unemployment" (Original Post)
applegrove
Jan 2014
OP
Plagarism is lazy. Paul plagarizes in a lazy manner. Why is this lazy guy getting gov't money???
Scuba
Jan 2014
#1
Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Plagarism is lazy. Paul plagarizes in a lazy manner. Why is this lazy guy getting gov't money???
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)2. He's so much more than a plagiarizer
Isn't he now.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)3. He's a liar.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)4. No surprise there. Rand Paul
misrepresents his medical credentials by holding himself out to be a Board Certified Opthalmologist. (His 'certification' is from a 'Board' he himself created).
Recursion
(56,582 posts)5. There was a movie critic once, who reviewed some awful movie
Like, Dumb and Dumberer, or something like that, and absolutely panned it. Said it was a waste of the actors' talents, the script was awful, the direction non-existent, etc. He did concede, "a couple of moments were genuinely funny, but...".
When the movie's trailer hit the theaters, it included the blurb "Genuinely funny", citing him.
Cha
(297,655 posts)7. But, Lying And Plagiarism Works for Rand Paul according to Rand Paul..
applegrove
(118,778 posts)8. Good finds Cha.
Cha
(297,655 posts)9. And, thank you for your OP, applegrove!
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)10. When you simply read the abstract of a study it won't give you enough information to understand
a study. How the guy became a doctor I'll never know.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)11. Rand Paul is an idiot
Rand Paul really thinks that he is smart which is really sad