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The Public Interest archives from January 2005
Russia, the sick man of Europe.
January 1, 2005... THE Russian Federation today is in the grip of a steadily tightening mesh of serious demographic problems, for which the term "crisis" is no overstatement. This crisis is altering the realm of the possible for the country and its...
What do women really want?(employment patterns)
January 1, 2005... WITH journalists as well as social scientists continually on the lookout for new trends, the public is regularly treated to the discovery of social "revolutions." One of the latest concerns women and work. In October 2003, Lisa Belkin detected...
The age of depression.(depressive disorder )
January 1, 2005... As the New York Times tells the story, Sherri Souza's husband is a National Guardsman posted in Iraq whose long-anticipated return home was canceled after the Pentagon unexpectedly extended his tour of duty. Like most spouses in this situation,...
Phantom jobs and job losses.(American labor market)
January 1, 2005... AMERICANS are working. But how many of them? The answer to that question can have profound political consequences. Employment was a big issue in the 2004 presidential campaign, as George W. Bush and John Kerry sparred over how many jobs had...
The working-poverty trap.(LOW-WAGE AMERICA: TWO VIEWS)
January 1, 2005... IMAGINE working full-time, but nonetheless living in poverty. Hard as this may be for many of us to imagine, almost a quarter of the nation's workforce in 2001 earned less than $8.70 an hour. Full time, full-year work at this wage placed a...
Up from the bottom rung.(American labor market)
January 1, 2005... PITY the poor labor economists. They build their careers studying one of the most complicated bazaars in the economic world--the marketplace for jobs. Not only that, but their labors have become even more high-stakes in recent decades, as an...
Gotham's fiscal crisis: lessons unlearned.(New York city )
January 1, 2005... IT IS certainly a memorable image: New York City mayor Abe Beame standing before the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and leaving a plaintive, one-word note--"HELP." At that time, 30 years ago, the Big Apple needed all the help it could get. It was in...
Why we study Western Civ.(Civilization)
January 1, 2005... A FEW years ago, I gave a talk to an audience in a small German town based on a book I had written about a prominent but dysfunctional family that had lived there 450 years earlier. When asked how I came upon and researched this story, I...
Childhood for sale?(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... IF there is one place where the culture wars seem to be reaching a truce of sorts, that place is the battlefield of childhood. Just about everyone, aside, perhaps, from the producers at MTV or the "creatives" who design blood-spattered video...
Measuring abortion.(Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy and the Economics of Fertility)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... SEX and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy and the Economics of Fertility [dagger] is a model of contemporary social science discourse, revealing in one book both how the enterprise should be conducted and its vulnerability to tunnel vision...