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...anguish and the matrix of large-scale social problems: natal health risks, dropout rates, and even incarceration figures share an observable, direct link to the number of young mothers. This makes cuts in health-education funding—down 26 percent since 2001—seem especially puzzling; each dollar spent teaching students about birth control and sexual responsibility would seem to save several otherwise spent on law enforcement, penitentiaries, and welfare programs. For a host of reasons, our society is not an accomocating place for a teen who is pregnant. People who are still in many ways children themselves...
...wedding gifts to buy. Luxury retailers without an international presence are the ones struggling. "Tiffany's end results were pretty good because they don't only sell to clients looking for affordable luxury but to very rich customers who are not necessarily impacted by the U.S. dollar," says Dave Sievers, retail practice leader at Archstone Consulting. He foresees luxury spending stabilizing or even increasing as 2008 progresses. For this fiscal year, Tiffany predicts at least a 10% growth in worldwide net sales...
...Bilmes argues in her new book “The Three Trillion Dollar War,” with economist and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, this price tag does not take into account the long-term and macroeconomic costs of the war. Her estimate includes decades of future veterans’ compensation payouts; oil price hikes as a result of supply disruption; and the loss not only to families but to the economy when productive Americans are injured or die young...
...trillion estimate is not without its critics, including University of Chicago economist Steven J. Davis. In an interview, he rejected the claim that the war caused a five to ten dollar per barrel increase in oil prices, citing evidence to the contrary from historical price shocks such as the first Gulf War and the Iran-Iraq...
...Linda J. Bilmes ’80, a former assistant secretary of commerce, teaches public finance at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is coauthor (with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz) of “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict...