David Brooks Has Set Himself Up For Lots of Criticism

I posted below on David Brooks rhetoric and logic. His argument is based upon facts that he presumes to be correct. This article, shows how much respect David Brooks has for facts. It points out that our high school dropout rate in the US has improved from 28.3% in 1973 to 8.4% today. Dean Baker asks what has changed in the last 5 years that would make the 2 million who worked in factories unemployable today. Did their moral fiber decline over this period? If so, we should be doing more about reducing long term unemployment that makes folks less employable.