Monday, August 1, 2011

I thought Fresno was bad

Drug and alcohol abuse rates are higher in the District than anywhere else in the country, and experts say the wide availability of drugs, high stress levels and difficulties getting abusers into treatment fuel the city's persistently stratospheric rates. Washington Examiner
Note that DC gets $5 in welfare money for each $1 sent to Congress. Should I pull the trigger and say cause and effect? Yglesias sasy the high subsidies to DC are a result of Congressional experiments. But then where is the Hawthorne Effect?

The entire MidAtlantic economy is suffering and one of their major industries is central government, which is in low demand.

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