Campus Assault Surveys Say Too Little

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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If women going to a certain foreign country had a 30 percent chance of sexual assault, would we send our daughters there? How is college any different? On The Gist, Slate’s Emily Yoffe explains why the grim portrait painted by the new Association of American Universities study does not reflect reality. Read her entire article, “The Problem With Campus Sexual Assault Surveys,” on Slate. For the Spiel, is America going to hell in a hand basket? Why a small coterie of house Republicans stand athwart compromise. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:20.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:24.0	It's Friday, October 2nd, 2015, from Slate It's the Gist I might pass up.
0:31.9	In a bipartisan effort, bipartisan yay!
0:34.9	To do away with the Cadillac tax, Cadillacs, so indulgent.
0:40.0	Congress rolled back the idea of tax, expensive healthcare plans.
0:44.5	But Zika Manual and Bob Coacher, I think?
0:47.5	Maybe?
0:48.5	Architects of the Affordable Healthcare Act do in the New York Times lay out a case defending
0:53.1	the Cadillac tax.
0:54.8	Why it shouldn't be repealed.
0:56.0	I'll summarize.
0:58.0	Taxes, any taxes, disincentivize things.
1:02.4	And this thing is very, very generous healthcare plans.
1:06.6	These healthcare plans don't need to be so generous.
1:09.3	And if you disincentivize companies from giving that to their employees, the companies will
1:14.8	spend their money elsewhere, like in salaries for everyone.
1:18.9	Vox looks at their argument and Vox says, yes, those two guys are pretty much right.
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