One more on this. When the riots occurred in France last Fall, according
to news reports, there was no official data on unemployment by different
demographic groups. To my mind, that makes it hard to diagnose societal
problems and harder still to evaluate fixes. Apparently the French have a
view that such demographic variables shouldn't be measured due to
egalitarian concerns. Sometimes you realize how foreign other countries
can be...
- Bill
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