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...Raising payroll taxes Bush says he has ruled out a tax hike, but it forms a key part of other proposals. Some would simply raise the payroll tax rate, set at 12.4%, but critics argue that would disproportionately affect working-class and middle-class families. Others, including Peter Diamond of M.I.T. and Peter Orszag of the Brookings Institution, want to raise the ceiling on taxable income. Today only the first $90,000 of income is subject to payroll tax. Such a change would generate more revenue for Social Security but affect only 6% of the work force...
Banaji wrote in an e-mail from India yesterday that “the implicit, not to mention explicit, stereotype associating math with male has been demonstrated time and again to affect women’s performance on math and their attitudes toward math...
Specifically, Kagan said that scholars with J.D.s as well as Ph.D.s had sparked the growth of the law and economics discipline, which examines how rules affect behavior and assesses laws in terms of their economic efficiency...
...threat, according to Allison, is not expected to seriously affect Harvard’s security...
...President Summers’ recent remarks on women in academia, the resulting international media ruckus, presumably unintentional, has at least brought the issue to the attention of the general public. There is one major source of female under-representation that begins too early for university employment policies to affect directly: too many young girls are dissuaded from studying math and science, even by their own parents and teachers. More public awareness, beyond the confines of academic discussion, can only be helpful in tackling this much larger issue...