News About Inequality - January 2008

'Highly Skilled And Out Of Work'

• The Washington Post, January 21, 2008
  An unusually large share of workers have been out a job for more than six months even as overall unemployment has remained low, a little-noted weakness in the labor market that analysts said threatens to intensify the impact of the unfolding economic downturn.

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'Highly Skilled And Out Of Work'

• The Washington Post, January 21, 2008
  An unusually large share of workers have been out a job for more than six months even as overall unemployment has remained low, a little-noted weakness in the labor market that analysts said threatens to intensify the impact of the unfolding economic downturn.

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'Blue-Collar Jobs Disappear, Taking Families' Way of Life Along'

• The New York Times, January 16, 2008
  Middle-aged men moving in with parents, wives taking two jobs, veteran workers taking overnight shifts at half their former pay, families moving West - these are signs of the turmoil and stresses emerging in the little towns and backwoods mobile homes of southeast Ohio, where dozens of factories and several coal mines have closed over the last decade, and small businesses are giving way to big-box retailers and fast-food outlets.

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'Networkers Harness Web to Target Goals, Preferences'

• The Washington Post, January 13, 2008
  Career networking is no longer a hit or miss proposition, say specialists. Today, self-promotion is aimed at the bull's-eye instead of the old business card routine of blanketing the room and praying one will stick.

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'What's Tearing Kenya Apart? History, for One Thing'

• The Washington Post, January 6, 2008
  The East African country -- widely seen as a model of economic and democratic progress since 2002, when the 24-year dictatorship of Daniel arap Moi was swept aside -- has been moving toward an ethnically charged civil war since a disputed election on Dec. 27.

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'Firehouse Dispute Raises Racial Tension in St. Louis'

• The New York Times, January 5, 2008
  An African-American firefighter's complaint that he found a stuffed monkey hanging by its neck in his firehouse last month has become a stark reminder of this city's troubled racial legacy.

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'Open Up'

• The Economist, January 3, 2008
  Despite a growing backlash, the boom in migration has been mostly good for both sending and recipient countries, says Adam Roberts.

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'The Policies of Movement'

• The Economist, January 3, 2008
  THOSE setting migration policy in rich countries face an almost impossible task. The demands of demography and economics-shrinking and ageing workforces, a growing shortage of people to fill jobs requiring both high and low skills, and increasingly flexible and open economies-all point to more migration.

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'Poverty and Marriage, Income Inequality and Brains'

• Pathways, January 1, 2008
  It may be said with only a little exaggeration that policy analysts are happy describing the causes of problems while ignoring their solution, and politicians are happy proposing solutions to problems while ignoring their causes. At least, such is the case with poverty and income inequality.