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Re:Why children of married parents do better, but America is... by marcosdumay on Sunday October 22, 2023 @04:23PM (#37978753)
> but it is an inconvenient truth because everyone wants to search out good policy in the domain space to improve outcomes

Just because something defines 90% of the result, it doesn't mean you must just give-up and not work on that remaining 10%.

The same applies to the luck vs. hard work problem people keep missing the point about.

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Re:Why children of married parents do better, but America is... by toomuchtodo on Sunday October 22, 2023 @04:38PM (#37978880)
Never said to give up, but be realistic about the effort to outcome improvement ratio. Universal school lunches are an easy win, for example.

https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/states-that-have-passed-univer...

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