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Yet another study confirms YIMBYs are right about everything

Betrayed by misleading headlines

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Matthew Yglesias
Apr 27, 2023
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Lifting heavy things is a good way to build muscle, but working out once won’t make you much stronger. Giving poor families cash is an effective means of reducing poverty, but giving each household $1 isn’t going to change the poverty rate very much. Having more police officers on the street reduces crime, but adding one more Chicago police officer isn’…

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