MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Fast Times At Eighth Avenue High: Our Adolescent Media.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 276.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Dems Trying To Blame IRS Inspector General For Targeting Scandal. “The Obama administration has well documented problems with assertive inspector generals, so this kind of push back is to be expected from Hill Democrats. It’s an attempt to smear the IRS inspector general and only shows how desperate the Democrats have become. It’s a hail mary pass that is going to fall incomplete in the end zone.”

I DUNNO. DOES ARNE DUNCAN NEED TO TAKE ON THE EPIDEMIC OF SEX ABUSE BY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS? Leslie Marshall: Pope Francis Needs To Address The Catholic Child Abuse Scandal.

Related: Kids 100 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in public schools than by priests.

Also: Teen Who Had Sex With Teacher Sues Her. “A teenage college student who had a passionate affair with a Southern California high school teacher and is now the father of her child has filed a lawsuit against the teacher and the local school district. . . . Whitehurst, 29, was charged with 41 felony counts of sexual intercourse and oral copulation. Three male high school students were involved (at different times). She pleaded guilty and served half of a one-year sentence. She was released from prison last month.”

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Is There A Right Time To Raise The Minimum Wage?

But note this: “Workers who previously had higher wages are outstripping their savings and being forced into lower-wage work. And workers who might have moved up the employment ladder from minimum-wage jobs feel stuck there. The more workers who feel trapped in low-wage work, the higher the political pressure to raise the minimum wage. If you believe, as I do, that demand curves for labor slope downward, just like almost every other demand curve, then increasing the minimum wage is probably a bad idea right now. But the political logic is impeccable.”

If “impeccable” political logic leads to a disastrous outcome, then the political system is dysfunctional.

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NEW YORK POST: We Vote With Our Feet.

These boots were made for walking, as the song goes. Unfortunately for New York, they’re walking right out of the state, with the latest Census figures showing Florida about to overtake us as the nation’s third-most-populous state.

The Albany-based Empire Center for Public Policy crunched the numbers and found that since 2010 New York has had a net domestic ­migration loss of 328,538 people. . . .Why does this matter? It matters because whatever politicians might say about manufacturing or high-tech or natural resources, the key driver of any growing economy is people. And when people take their skills to other states, they are effectively voting with their feet against the ­status quo.

Plus:

Meanwhile, states such as Florida and Texas continue to attract people. It’s not just taxes prompting migration to their shores, though certainly the lack of an income tax in either the Lone Star or Sunshine state has to be a large part of the attraction. These growing states are also creating jobs, and generally offer a lower cost of living. And as a general rule, human beings do not move away from opportunity.

That’s what makes these Census numbers so telling.

Indeed.

UPDATE: Reader Frank Pimentel writes: “It doesn’t help that Cuomo is allowing fracking in NY to be held hostage by the likes of RFK, Jr. I’m surprised the Post didn’t mention that.” Well, when you’re talking about the anti-business climate in New York, there’s never enough space to cover everything. . . .

JAMES TARANTO: Sounds Familiar: A Beltway cliché becomes an ObamaCare excuse.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Civilian casualties are up in Afghanistan, a new U.N. report says. “According to the United Nations, 2,959 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2013 and 5,656 were injured. The number of fatalities jumped 7 percent compared with 2012 and fell just short of the record 3,021 civilians killed in the Afghan war in 2011.”

KAY HYMOWITZ IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: How Single Motherhood Hurts Kids.

The sociologist Kathryn Edin has shown that unlike their more educated peers, these younger, low-income women tend to stop using contraception several weeks or months after starting a sexual relationship. The pregnancy — not lasting affection and mutual decision-making — that often follows is the impetus for announcing that they are a couple. Unsurprisingly, by the time the thrill of sleepless nights and colicky days has worn off, two relative strangers who have drifted into becoming parents together notice they’re just not that into each other. Hence, the high breakup rates among low-income couples: Only a third of unmarried parents are still together by the time their children reach age 5.

Also complicating low-income single parenthood in America is what the experts call “multipartner fertility.” Both divorced and never-married Americans are more likely to repartner and start “second families” than Europeans, but the trend is far more common among unmarried parents. According to data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study at Princeton and Columbia Universities, over 60 percent of low-income babies will have at least one half sibling when they are born; by the time they are 5, the proportion will have climbed to over 70 percent.

All of this would be of merely passing interest if it weren’t for the evidence that this kind of domestic churn is really bad news for kids. The more “transitions” experienced by a child — the arrival of a stepparent, a parental boyfriend or girlfriend, or a step- or half sibling — the more children are likely to have either emotional or academic problems, or both. (My own research indicates that boys, especially, suffer from these transitions.)

Read the whole thing.

LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: One Year Later, Unlocking Your Phone Is Still A Crime. “It was a clear case of crony capitalism on behalf of some of the largest companies with the largest lobbying shops in Washington, D.C. . . . The resulting public outcry, perhaps the largest online response since SOPA/PIPA, led the White House, FCC and Members of Congress to condemn the ruling by the Librarian of Congress and to support cellphone unlocking. One year later, despite an overwhelming consensus in favor of unlocking, unlocking your phone, without permission from your carrier, is still a crime. It’s difficult to find another issue that has such overwhelming and bipartisan support, and it’s difficult to understand why Congress still refuses to act.”

THE HILL: Tech industry fears shadow campaign to seize global control of Internet.

Fearing a power grab for control of the Internet, members of the tech industry are pleading with Congress to pay attention to the domain name expansion that is underway at a little-known nonprofit.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), led by its CEO Fadi Chehade, last year began rolling out thousands of alternatives to the traditional .com ending used by most websites. New endings using the Latin alphabet, such as .clothing and .singles, became available in January, and hundreds of others are on the way.

ICANN says it is focused on making the Internet more broadly available and has prioritized creating domain names in languages such as Chinese, Arabic and Cyrillic.

But critics say the nonprofit betrayed broader ambitions last year when it endorsed a statement calling for the globalization of ICANN and other domain name technical work that is currently managed by the United States.

By signing the statement, Chehade put “a target on ICANN’s back,” said Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice.

“ICANN is not at the center of Internet governance,” said DelBianco, whose group represents companies such as Facebook, Yahoo and eBay.

The statement, which was issued with nine other Internet infrastructure organizations, suggested that the domain work of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) be handed over to ICANN. Those duties are now contracted out by the Commerce Department.

Some in the tech industry saw the statement as a direct challenge to the U.S. role in Internet governance, which is already being called into question after the revelations about global snooping at the National Security Agency (NSA).

More blowback.

A CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY: Second Amendment applies to carrying guns in cars. “So say two of the three judges on an Ohio Court of Appeals panel, in State v. Shover (Ohio Ct. App. Feb. 5, 2014) (Carr, J., concurring in the judgment, with Hensal, J., agreeing on this score) (some paragraph breaks added) — and generally quite correctly, it seems to me.”

#WARONWOMEN: NAACP supports Carlos Henriquez IN WRITING! is it a national story yet? “So there is no specific rule for expelling a member of the Massachusetts House if they assault a women who refuses them sex. That’s seriously the argument the NAACP is making?”

SO IF THE NEXT PRESIDENT ISSUES ONLY ONE EXECUTIVE ORDER — SEIZING ALL THE ASSETS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND ITS STAFF FOR PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT TO TERRORISTS, SAY, he’ll be only 1/168th as lawless as Barack Obama, according to Charles Blow. Blow is even more of an embarrassment to the Times than usual, with this piece.

REVEALED: Barack Obama’s Facebook Lookback Video.

LAW INTENDED TO PROTECT TEEN HAS POTENTIAL TO RUIN TEEN’S LIFE: Va. Teen Faces Child Porn Charges For Tweeting Nude ‘Selfie.’ When you share nude pictures, you need to be mature enough to realize that the law thinks you’re too immature to appreciate the consequences of what you’re doing. If you’re not mature enough to realize that, your immaturity will lead to severe consequences. Got that?

LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Anti-Gun Advocate Arrested For Carrying Gun In School. “He was a well-known face in the movement for the SAFE Act, the state law that made carrying a gun on school property a felony. He was also a familiar presence in the hallways of the city’s Harvey Austin Elementary School, where he worked in the after-school program and mentored students. No one imagined that on Thursday he would show up at the school in possession of a gun, touching off an hours-long lockdown, search and ultimately his arrest on two felony charges. . . . He was among local activists who stood with Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes last year lobbying for a law that would make possessing a gun on school property a felony.”

HEALTH: The Future of Medicine: 6 New Technologies Transforming the Field. Faster, please.

DONALD ROGERS: A Pub’s Eye View of Washington Politics: A century of political warfare, as viewed through a pint glass, darkly.

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HOW MANY 27-YEAR OLDS ARE LIVING IN THEIR PARENTS’ BASEMENTS? More than are living with roommates. This is true even for college graduates.

Plus, note this graphic: In 2011, today’s 27-year-olds were more likely to be earning less than $15,000 a year from work than they were to be earning more than $40,000.

And another interesting observation: “Associate’s degree holders are both most likely to be married or a home owner. They, apparently, are the grown ups at this age.”

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FAILING WELL IS THE AMERICAN WAY: Michael Barone reviews Megan McArdle’s new book, The Upside of Down: Why Failing Well Is The Key To Success.