News About Inequality - May 2008

'Offshoring Silicon Valley'

• The American Prospect, May 27, 2008
  American computer software engineers go the way of factory workers.

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'The Guys Next Door'

• The Economist, May 22, 2008
  California's highest court has revived a bitter dispute over gay marriage. But the fight will be different this time

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'On the poverty line'

• The Economist, May 22, 2008
  Has "a dollar a day" had its day?

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'Tight Economy Cuts Teens' Summer Job Opportunities'

• The Boston Globe, May 22, 2008
  ...thousands of teenagers across the region have depended on summer jobs to help their families, save for college, or to have a little spending money. But a series of state aid cuts, evaporating donations to jobs organizations, and struggling local businesses have amounted to the most difficult youth job market in recent years.

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'A Diploma's Worth? Ask Her'

• The New York Times, May 21, 2008

  From the founding of the country's first (all-male) colleges in the 17th century until just a few decades ago, men received far more education than women. But the two sexes have now switched places in a remarkably short time.

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'Immigrants' Children Find Better Lives, Study Shows'

• The New York Times, May 18, 2008

  A decade-long study of adult children of immigrants to the New York region has concluded that they are rapidly entering the mainstream and doing better than their parents in terms of education and earnings - even outperforming native-born Americans in many cases.

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'Women Rise in Rwanda's Economic Revival'

• The Washington Post, May 16, 2008

  But the secret to success here has had far less to do with the idyllic climate and volcanic soil than with a group of people who have emerged as Maraba's -- and Rwanda's -- most potent economic force: women.

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'State Programs Add Safety Net for the Poorest'

• The New York Times, May 12, 2008

  For years, state welfare offices like the one alongside Interstate 30 have drawn the unemployed. But these days, the red-brick building here is also attracting poor, working parents with an unexpected offer: $204 a month in cash.

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'Perfectly Legal Immigrants, Until They Applied for Citizenship'

• The New York Times, May 12, 2008

  The Servanos are among a growing group of legal immigrants who reach for the prize and permanence of citizenship, only to run afoul of highly technical immigration statutes that carry the severe penalty of expulsion from the country.

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'Keeping the Boys Away from the Girls'

• The Boston Globe, May 9, 2008
  Schools try to close an achievement gap with single-sex classes.

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'Nearer to Overcoming'

• The Economist, May 8, 2008
  Barack Obama's success shows that the ceiling has risen for African-Americans. But many are still too close to the floor.

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'Status: Looking for Work on Facebook'

• The New York Times, May 1, 2008
  With American consumer confidence at a 26-year low and one in seven workers telling the Pew Research Center that they fear they will be laid off, social-networking sites are becoming, for some users, platforms from which to network for job leads, to forge professional contacts or even to announce to friends that you are out of work.