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Machael J. Passante '99 asked Glickman why theU.S. government continues to provide agriculturalsubsidies to many industries despite the widelyheld view by economists that such subsidies are,overall, a "waste of taxpayer money...
...Thernstrom presented material which may have seemed surprising or even unappealing in its unconventionality. For example, he cited the fact that Black earnings between the 1940's and 1980's grew almost twice as fast as white earnings, contradicting widelyheld theories that race relations during this period improved slowly. But his observations, while controversial, added a new dimension to the subject matter...
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