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Down and Out in the Great Recession

David Brooks wrote an excellent column for the NY Times: The Lean Years. In his essay, he writes about how men have been disproportionately affected by the recession, and how people who come to working age during bad economic times usually sustain permanent damage to their earning capacity over a lifetime.  Brooks’s column links to another excellent article, this time from the Atlantic: How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America.

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Arrogant Hate Mail from the Ivory Tower

I got this e-mail from a disgruntled professor in California who is upset at the fact that we’re producing Miss Asian Oregon.  I usually don’t post angry hate mail, but this one really got on my nerves because I really don’t get it–why do some professors, whose tenure protects them from the hills and valleys of the economy, take such an antagonistic view against the private sector?  These people are teaching our future leaders.  They feel soooo high and mighty because they get a guaranteed paycheck, and they take that arrogance and throw accusations against the rest of us who are trying to pay the mortgage and put food on the table for our kids.  It baffles me.

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