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...school educations--loans they didn't finish paying off until five or six years ago. (Though, of course, that would be Harvard Law School.) "This is a guy who, when he talks about his own life, has lived through some of the same stuff they are living through," says labor leader Anna Burger, the head of the Change to Win federation of unions, which has endorsed Obama. "The real campaign in the fall is going to be around the economy...
Most apparel manufacturers went overseas in search of cheaper labor years ago--90% of the clothes Americans buy come from places like China, Mexico, Bangladesh, Honduras, Indonesia and Vietnam. Nearly a million people in the U.S. worked in apparel manufacturing in 1990; today fewer than 200,000 do, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an obliteration of the field in less than 20 years. Yet within this classic example of globalization, Brooks Brothers has a message: Sometimes it makes sense to stay at home...
Unfortunately, Obama’s track from 1863 to 2008 railroads the facts. Economist Thomas Sowell recounts reality in his book, “Economic Facts and Fallacies.” Today, African Americans have the lowest marriage rate of any racial group in the country, and lower labor force participation rates than whites. At the turn of the 20th century, however, blacks had higher marriage rates than whites. They also had higher labor force participation rates than whites in every census from 1890 to 1950. The problems that Obama cites are recent trends, not ancestral legacies...
...impartiality of GDP. A National Academy of Sciences panel recommended in 2005 that the U.S. look into measuring household work, investments in education and health care and environmental assets--but as satellite accounts, not part of GDP. Says Katharine Abraham, a University of Maryland professor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, who headed up that effort: "One problem with these expanded measures--why I wouldn't want to see them replace GDP--is the information you base them on is too tenuous...
Editors are selfless, editors believe. They labor in anonymity and take their satisfaction vicariously. The writer gets all the glory. He gets the big bucks. He gets invited to the parties, the openings, the symposia, while the editors toil at their desks turning the writer's random jottings and pretentious stylistic quirks into something resembling English prose. But that's O.K. Editors don't mind. They say, "Have a lovely time at that writers' conference, and we'll have the rewrite done when you get back." ("And your laundry too, you unappreciative bastard," they mumble under their breath...