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Alberto Nardelli @AlbertoNardelli
Aww yea

"The project is expected to cost about $10 billion, although the latest revisions are likely to increase that price tag." In other countries they build entire new subway lines for less than $10 billion.
It's not often that I'd recommend canceling transit projects, but this DC one seems like a good one to cancel.

San Francisco’s poverty rate is 10%; Detroit’s is 33%.
San Francisco’s unemployment rate is 3%; Detroit’s is 20%.
Yet, San Francisco’s homelessness rate is a whopping 3 times higher than Detroit’s.
Why?
If you want to understand homelessness, follow the rent:



Lack of homes leads to homelessness, crazy right?
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• Thread about fertility, which is "no longer negatively related to income across high-income countries", in high income countries it's somewhat positively correlated with women's work force participation.
• Short thread linking to a number of stories covering a Russian agent posing as a Brazilian for a decade only to be denied an internship at the International Criminal Court.