There are pretty strong arguments about leaded gas being responsible for much of beginning of the drop, the Biden’s economic recovery plan for the latter part
How is it a “stunning reversal” when it was declining significantly before the pandemic?
It was declining before the pandemic. Everyone knew this. No one is stunned.
A plurality of Americans think that the murder rate is rising.
There are pretty strong arguments about leaded gas being responsible for much of beginning of the drop, the Biden’s economic recovery plan for the latter part
Some of us are old enough to remember when Biden took credit for the first unleaded drop for his “super predator” crime bill him and Hillary came up with in the 90s.
“We have predators on our streets that society has in fact, in part because of its neglect, created,” said Biden, then a fourth-term senator from Delaware so committed to the bill that he has referred to it over the years as “the Biden bill.”
“They are beyond the pale many of those people, beyond the pale,” Biden continued. “And it’s a sad commentary on society. We have no choice but to take them out of society.”
In the speech, Biden described a “cadre of young people, tens of thousands of them, born out of wedlock, without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any conscience developing because they literally … because they literally have not been socialized, they literally have not had an opportunity.” He said, “we should focus on them now” because “if we don’t, they will, or a portion of them, will become the predators 15 years from now.”
Biden added that he didn’t care “why someone is a malefactor in society” and that criminals needed to be “away from my mother, your husband, our families.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/politics/biden-1993-speech-predators
That bill caused immeasurable amounts of damages and led the way for the same law enforcement abuses we’re suffering under from ICE…
And neoliberals spent decades denying the science behind lead poisoning so they could claim their destructive policy helped shit.
So dont give them credit now or believe that their new shit helped. They’ve been lying about the effects of their policy since before they left the Republican party 50+ years ago.
Stop giving them a new set of “benefit of doubt” every time they change their self applied label