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...loss of output in the economy. Long-term unemployment burdens social services, diminishes spending levels in the economy and drains overall savings. It can also affect unemployment among young, first-time job-seekers. "Long-term unemployment is debilitating for people trying to find jobs in the first place," says Professor James K. Galbraith of the University of Texas at Austin. The more long term unemployed there are already competing for jobs with long résumés, the harder it is for first timers with no work experience to get the job, thereby tossing them into the pool...
...verdict] was not unexpected," said Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson '60, who led Tenenbaum's defense team. "This is what the law requires—though it's obviously irrational and clearly reversible," he added...
...chairman in 2007, Rangel became the first African American ever to hold the position. "To be the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is probably as close to being a major figure in a European monarchy as we have to offer," says Ross Baker, a political-science professor at Rutgers University. "The chairman is subject to the largest numbers of entreaties and colossal deference because everybody has got a tax angle. It means you are paid court by every lobbyist in Washington." (Read TIME's 1970 article about Rangel, "New Man from Harlem...
...possibility of re-engaging Washington in talks - though not in the so-called six-party format, which includes all of North Korea's direct neighbors, that Obama favors. "We must pay keen attention to what signal North Korea sent to Bill Clinton," says Yun Duk min, a professor at a think tank affiliated with the South Korean Foreign Ministry. "A key to break the stalemate may lie in there." (See pictures of North Koreans going to the polls...
...inmates for bouts of violence earlier this year, including fatal attacks on prison wardens at two of the country's biggest prisons. "We haven't had the hangman for 22 years and these criminals have been very dangerous to society because they are idle," Casper Awuondo, a sociology professor at the University of Nairobi, tells TIME. "They have been using their mobile phones to threaten people, extort money, do all sorts of things, because they are idle." (See pictures of prison life in Baghdad...