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Staff Writer Alexander B. Ginzberg can be reached at ginsberg@fas.harvard.edu...
...something to do with the second Brandeis tally. McCully had the good fortune to have a Crimson defensive clearance bounce off the back of his head, with the ricochet landing at the feet of Judge winger Chris Ellsasses. Ellsasses hit a low right-footer past charging freshman Matt Ginzberg, who replaced Coogan at the half. The junior starter suffered a broken nose against Columbia and he complained the padding he wore obstructed his vision...
Poverty is a longstanding social problem that hits American women with particular force. "Female heads of households are the disproportionate group of people in poverty," says Columbia University Economist Eli Ginzberg. "The feminization of poverty" is Sociologist Diana Pearce's blunt phrase for it. A Census Bureau report covering 1980 just goes by the numbers: "About one-half of all families below the poverty level in 1980 were maintained by women with no husband present. The poverty rate for such families was 32.7%, compared with 6.2% for married-couple families, and 11% for families with a male householder, no wife...
Wednesday morning, July 11, a miscellany: Mary Berry, Assistant Secretary for Education, HEW; Nicholas Carbone, deputy mayor of Hartford; Sol Chaikin, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers.' Union; John Filer, board chairman of the Aetna Life and Casualty Co.; Eli Ginzberg, chairman of the National Commission for Employment Policy; Carl Holman, president of the National Urban Coalition; Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.; Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League; David Lizarraga, co-chairman of the National Black-Hispanic Democratic coalition; John Lyons, president of the iron workers union; David Mahoney, board chairman...
...which case only a quarter of blacks would qualify as being middle class, as compared with nearly 50% of whites. Critics also argued that income gains were partly illusory because black families are more dependent than white families on the earnings of wives. But Eli Ginzberg, professor of economics at Columbia University, is persuaded that the upward trend in black earning power is "unequivocal. People can draw their lines wherever they want...