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...richest.” Borjas’ findings have been challenged by David Card, a Berkeley economist, who argues that immigration raises average wages by increasing the amount of availabe capital. He also claims that the least skilled workers—those who Borjas says are the hardest hit—suffer no loss of wages as a result of immigration. Card’s basic findings are echoed by other economists.At the least, we should be suspicious of those who claim that the rights of immigrants conflict with U.S. workers’. The economic evidence is too complicated...
...only real stand-up on campus.” WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH STAND-UP?“The thing about stand-up is that it’s the easiest thing to break into but it’s the hardest thing to succeed in,” says David W. Ingber ’07.Ingber has done the vast majority of his comedy performance off-campus, playing sets in bars and clubs.Ingber will be one of the featured performers at the festival. However, he is not a traditional stand-up comedian...
...wonder if I can achieve the feats that she achieves on a regular basis—cutting 20 lines of cocaine in 45 minutes, bagging Pete Doherty, and touting her child in a Prada handbag. But most importantly, I look to her as inspiration for one of the hardest things that a woman can do in these troubled times: wear skinny jeans. Skinny jeans are probably the most ponderous and troublesome item in the modern woman’s closet. In theory, they seem chic, wearable and utterly surmountable. In actuality, they make one’s thighs look like...
...good position to reach the 10 million households in the U.S. that don't use a bank account, says John Caskey, a professor of economics at Swarthmore and expert on the "unbanked." The company has already punctured the high cost of check cashing, which hits the unbanked hardest, by offering the service in its stores. Caskey says that with the right mix of low-cost services--bill payment, money orders, check cashing and basic savings accounts--Wal-Mart could serve an overlooked, overcharged population already in its stores...
...Ross. "People stay a long time, and they don't get rich. It's because she's wonderful to work for. You cannot bluff, you cannot pull the wool over her eyes. You get clear direction, never ambiguous, and once a decision is made, it's not changed. The hardest thing about the job is ever letting her down." Hunka says the palace "is almost without politics. I never have to write a memo to cover myself. There's no top job to compete for, and no revolving door of CEOs you have to please." Reid, who climbed...