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Recession Shatters Myth of Poverty Causing Crime

Unemployment rates go up, crime rates go down, and leftist theories go kaboom.

January 10, 2010 - by Jack Dunphy

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The sound you should be hearing right now is that of a myth exploding. And given the long duration and wide acceptance of this myth, the noise should indeed be deafening. But, no, as when many cherished notions of the left are revealed as fallacious, the current reaction is a hushed, embarrassed silence.