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How's this for unintended consequences? Some of the biggest beneficiaries of the women's movement have been married men. According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, married men have a 60% higher median household income than they did in 1970, even adjusted for inflation. Unmarried men...
The study, which drew on household income data from the Decennial Census and the 2007 American Community Survey, conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau, showed that the biggest gainers were married college-educated men. The biggest losers were unmarried men who did not complete high school or who only...
Likewise, the economy of the quake zone has done well. Much of the region was agricultural, and farmers were able to get back to work fairly soon after the disaster. The massive rebuilding effort also provided direct investment and job opportunities. Several of the dislocated people I met in the...
Those three films can give themselves back-pats, but they still huddle in the huge shadow of Avatar. And it may take a while for a new release to dethrone Cameron's picture over an entire weekend. It slipped only 18% from last weekend's take, and tomorrow it's...
Many analysts worry that the detention of Freeman and Marsilli signals a reversal of the Vietnamese government's widely lauded market reforms. With spiraling inflation and the global financial crisis taking a bite out of the country's crucial export sector, some say government hardliners have responded by rolling back...