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...Harry Holzer, an economist at Georgetown University and the Urban Institute, also sees troubling news in the fact that the fourth quarter's measure of gross domestic product (GDP), or the value of all the goods and services the economy churns out, wasn't nearly as bad as economists had thought it would be: down an annualized 3.8%, compared with a predicted drop of 5.4%, according to a Reuters poll. Companies are still producing, Holzer explains, but since no one is buying, inventories are piling up. With a backlog of goods, firms will need fewer workers to keep making more...
...served time, there's a lesser-known side of the tragedy: it turns out that the mere existence of those black men who?ve gone to prison can also ruin the job prospects of black men without criminal records, according to several studies conducted by Georgetown University economist Harry Holzer and several colleagues...
...Holzer asked employers of low-skilled jobs whether they would hire someone who?d been to prison and whether they conduct background checks on applicants to find out. The answers were a bit surprising-especially for prisoner advocates who have come out against background checks. Employers who said they conducted such checks were, in fact, more likely to hire black males overall than those who didn?t bother...
...Without these checks, Holzer told me, "employers might still be wondering whether black guys that didn't say they have criminal records might simply not be reporting it." Translation: Employers without the time or inclination to discern whether job applicants are criminals err on the ?safe? side and assume that all young black applicants are criminals-or at least incompetent. No wonder unemployment is sky-high in urban areas...
...march toward the 2009 bicentennial of Lincoln's birth and a trove of Lincoln scholarship has become instantly available on the Internet, primary material has become newly accessible, and there's a new drive to get him right. "We really are in a renaissance of Lincoln literature," notes Harold Holzer, a co-chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. "All of the classic works are being updated and improved upon. All the great themes that hitherto we thought had been dealt with definitively are being re-explored." In popular culture too, there is a Lincoln boom: in April...