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author of KIDS THESE DAYS: HUMAN CAPITAL AND THE MAKING OF MILLENNIALS out now! malcolmpharris@gmail ☭ not actually mean mostly

Philadelphia, PA
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Joined October 2010
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    Dec 12

    Saturday is my birthday, and if you're in Philly (or nearby) come celebrate with me at/after this reading

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  2. 10 hours ago

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    10 hours ago

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    Young girls in war-torn Syria are being taught to code their way to a better future
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  4. 10 hours ago

    Development and availability to the police of less-lethal crowd control weapons is an underrated cause of the present situation imo.

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  5. 10 hours ago

    Folks are gonna wanna take to the streets, not realizing that's not allowed any more.

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  6. 10 hours ago

    Yeah but like wutcha gonna do about it?

    What we’re witnessing in 2017 is the full-scale looting of America, unchecked by either political caution or any kind of substantive policy analysis.
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    14 hours ago

    The recent arrest of two Georgia football players highlights a whole host of intersecting factors about racist policing, legalization, decriminalization and cannabis in sports.

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  8. 15 hours ago

    I have never seen anti-millennial rhetoric used to try to jail people before

    In her closing rebuttal in the trial, Assistant US Attorney Kerkhoff from asked "What kind of privilege and entitlement do you have... [to] think you have a right to a dispersal order?"
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  9. 15 hours ago

    AHHHJ PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS

    In closing rebuttal in trial Assistant US Attorney Kerkhoff () claimed that the term "reasonable doubt" "doesn't mean a whole lot." Judge Leibovitz interrupted her and told jurors, "I'm sure she didn't mean to say what she just said."
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    16 hours ago

    Palestinian killed in clashes with Israeli forces on Gaza border is a wheelchair-bound double amputee, Palestinian officials say (photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

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  11. 16 hours ago

    Honestly it's a pet peeve when people use tuition instead of cost of attendance. What we want to talk about is cost of attendance!

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    Dec 14

    I use a similar line -- adopted from -- to discuss racial inequities in policing/criminal justice system outcomes. Our government-run institutions weren't created to ensure equity (in fact the opposite) and largely still operate as designed

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    17 hours ago

    Bwahahahaha

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  14. 17 hours ago

    If you wanted to make it way more egregious (and valid!), you could capture rent and book increases (with full cost of attendance) and exploitation (by scaling for productivity output instead of wages)

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  15. 17 hours ago

    Great stat cuz it captures declining value of minimum wage and the increase in cost of education

    Baby Boomers, please don’t ever “I washed dishes to pay my way through college” us again.
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  16. 17 hours ago

    I don't even know them! We're not even friends!

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  17. 17 hours ago

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    We hear ruin everything, but they still write brilliant books. Nick recommends KIDS THESE DAYS by for that reportedly kale-eating selfie-taking twenty-or-thirty-something on your holiday list.
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  18. 17 hours ago

    Two words that come up in all the reviews of Kids These Days but appear nowhere in the text: Marxist, avocado.

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  19. 18 hours ago

    If you liked this HuffPo piece about the precarious financial situation of the Millennial cohort then boy do I have a book recommendation

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  20. 18 hours ago

    O_________O

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: ‘Bitcoin is the real Occupy Wall Street’
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  21. 18 hours ago

    Re: learn to code, from some random Quora answer

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