Doug writes: If [Ward Connerly] gets his way, he'll end up as one of the
last and greatest beneficiaries of [Affirmative Action].
He might be the last, but Clarence Thomas is definitely the greatest
beneficiary of AA.
BTW, my letter on Affirmative Action was published today. I expect the
Small
In a message dated 97-07-23 20:31:06 EDT, you write: Maggie
p.s. Using statistics descriptively for a moment: Caucasian women with
college diplomas earn less, on average, than African American men with
high
school diplomas.
Response (Jim C)
These statistics are part of the
FYI
Shawgi Tell
Graduate School of Education
University at Buffalo
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:36:15 -0700
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Subject: Jordanian "Democracy"? -- MER LIE of the WEEK
M I
Someone asked for further elaboration--intention and meaning--on my
comments on my experiences in Kerala and asked if these comments were
based on privileged conversations.
First of all, all of those conversations took place publicly; I would
never share the private ones. Secondly, the point
In a recent posting, Jim Devine asked whether the home mortgage
deduction will soon be subject to attacks similar to those directed
against affirmative action. I have sometimes wondered about the extent to
which the deduction fuels the conversion of rural lands to large tracts of
new housing.
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, James Michael Craven wrote:
Someone asked for further elaboration--intention and meaning--on my
comments on my experiences in Kerala and asked if these comments were
based on privileged conversations.
First of all, all of those conversations took place publicly; I
Max (or anyone else), I have a question on how the eitc debate is being
formulated. The standard conservative/ mainstream economic response to
minimum wage, and rises in minimum wage, is that there will be higher
unemployment because employers are now forced to pay unskilled labor at a
rate
I thought someone at pen-l might have some references for this request.
maggie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 97-07-28 12:11:42 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frida
Widmalm) writes:
Subj: scolar in Indian economics
Date: 97-07-28 12:11:42 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frida Widmalm)
Sender:
At 01:54 AM 7/28/97 -0700, rakesh bhandari wrote:
Now, Connerly does not ask, is that suburban residence really an advantage
for black middle class kids? Having attended a predominantly white middle
class high school which was attended by 4 African-Americans out of 1500
hundred students, I find
From: Robert Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:11464] Re: Child tax credit
My own assessment is that the EIC was thought by small businesses
(chambers of commerce) as an ALTERNATIVE to minimum wage increases and
probably had some expectation that it would
Hi Patrick, this is Marc Breslow at Dollars Sense. It's been a long
time
since our last communication. How are you? Would you be interested in
making another stab at writing for us? Let me know. Marc.
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1997
RELEASED TODAY: Retirement plan participation by employees in medium and
large private establishments (those with 100 workers or more) has remained
fairly constant, but there has been a shift in the types of plans providing
coverage, according to a 1995
rakesh bhandari wrote:
The NYT devotes much ink to Ward Connerly, the black man appointed by
California Gov Pete Wilson to the University Board of Regents to speak in
favor of the destruction of affirmative action.
You're right to raise the issues you do, but the NYT article was
interesting for
The NYT devotes much ink to Ward Connerly, the black man appointed by
California Gov Pete Wilson to the University Board of Regents to speak in
favor of the destruction of affirmative action.
Connerly notes that on the SATs blacks whose parents earned $60,000 a year
were outscored by whites and
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