Teaching Bush Cause & Effect

Posted July 12th, 2004 by stormy and filed in Current Affairs

A while back, Bush announced plans to encourage and help poor people to marry. His reason? Married people are less likely to be poor. I think Bush should have taken Sociology 101 in college, which is where I learned the difference between cause, effect, correlating statistics and other interesting tidbits that might help set public policy. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a column in the New York Times about this.

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