News About Inequality - November 2007

'A Slowdown in Jobs Lost, and Created'

• The New York Times, November 28, 2007
  The biggest problem with the job market isn't the jobs that are being eliminated, shipped overseas or filled by temporary workers. The biggest problem is on the other end of the equation. There are far fewer jobs being created by new or expanding companies than there were throughout the 1990s.

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'Amid Affluence, the Hidden Homeless'

• The New York Times, November 25, 2007
  ON the border of Garden City and Hempstead, where handsome homes with manicured lawns give way to a crumbling housing project, sits a large, empty house with an unusual guardian.

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'A Time for Bold Thinking on Housing'

• The New York Times, November 25, 2007
  WE have to consider the possibility that the housing price downturn will eventually be as big as that of the last truly big decline, from 1925 to 1933, when prices fell by a total of 30 percent.

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'Nature, Nurture, and Destiny'

• The American Prospect, November 19, 2007
  The Bell Curve revisited: What science teaches us about heredity and environment

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'From One Generation to the Next'

• The American Prospect, November 19, 2007
  Poor health at birth is one key channel through which economic status is passed from parent to child. Smart policies can lift kids beyond the poverty of parents.

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'Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans'

• The New York Times, November 8, 2007
  More than 400 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have turned up homeless, and the Veterans Affairs Department and aid groups say they are bracing for a new surge in homeless veterans in the years ahead.

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'As Kurds' Status Improves, Support for Militants Erodes in Turkey'

• New York Times, November 2, 2007
  Ten years ago, Turkey ran the Kurdish region here in its southeast like a police state. All signs of Kurdish identity - the language, music, national dress - were strictly banned and subject to punishment. Checkpoints were everywhere. Going out after dark was forbidden.