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Automobiles
Wheelies: The Scion Concept Edition
Scion says it will introduce the iM Concept at the Los Angeles auto show next week; Chrysler announces pricing for the Ram ProMaster City compact van.World
In Shake-Up, Iraqi Premier Ousts Chiefs In Military
It was the first public effort by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to put his mark on the security forces battling Islamic State militants.World
Jean-Claude Juncker Breaks Silence Over Luxembourg Tax Issues
The former prime minister of Luxembourg, now the president of the European Commission, denied that his “ambition was to organize tax evasion in Europe.”World
Life Imitates Propaganda in Egypt
Talking politics with a foreigner in a cafe in Cairo now strikes some Egyptians as grounds for arrest.Opinion
Lawyers for the Homeless
Jane Gross, a retired Times reporter, writes that “providing lawyers to these victims would be far cheaper and much kinder.”
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/case-counts.html
Countries with Widespread Transmission
| Country | Total Cases | Laboratory-Confirmed Cases | Total Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guinea | 1878 | 1612 | 1142 |
| Liberia | 6822 | 2553 | 2836 |
| Sierra Leone | 5368 | 4523 | 1169 |
| Total | 14068 | 8688 | 5147 |
"The situation recalls the strident opposition to laws recently passed in Rhode Island and New York
requiring health care workers to get flu shots or wear masks when
treating patients during flu season. Vaccination rates among American
health care workers average just 45 percent, and the flu kills 36,000
people a year.
Similarly, there are parents who defy state mandates to vaccinate their children before sending them to school.
This
has contributed to a resurgence of childhood diseases that had been
virtually wiped out in the United States, including measles, mumps,
pertussis (whooping cough)."
World
Video: Officials Discuss Violence in West Bank
The Israeli defense minister and the president of the Palestinian Authority discussed the escalating violence in the West Bank after Israeli forces fatally shot a Palestinian man on Tuesday.| Palestinian self-determination Sunni Islamism,[5] Islamic fundamentalism,[6] Palestinian nationalism |
World
Catalonia Overwhelmingly Votes for Independence From Spain in Straw Poll
Defying objections from the Spanish government in Madrid, about two million people took part in a symbolic vote presented as a prelude to secession.
Opinion
Waiting for the European Central Bank
The steps the E.C.B. seems to have in mind will not sufficiently bolster the eurozone economy.U.S.
Missouri Governor Says National Guard Is Still Option in Ferguson
Gov. Jay Nixon said he was obligated to prevent potential violence as the St. Louis area braced for a grand jury decision on whether to indict a police officer in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.Opinion
Dark Money Helped Win the Senate
Now the chances for limiting secret, special-interest donations seem more distant than ever.Science
Dawn of Nuclear Arms, Declassified
Waves of declassified photographs and movies from the nation’s push to make Little Boy and Fat Man — the world’s first atom bombs — are exciting to a generation less familiar with the United States’ atomic past.U.S.
Justices Hear Black Lawmakers’ Challenge to Alabama Redistricting
Black and Democratic lawmakers in Alabama said the state Legislature relied too heavily on race in 2012 by maintaining high concentrations of black voters in some districts.Business Day
U.S. Accepts Plan to Test Trinity Guardrail Design
The ET-Plus, made by Trinity Industries and suspected of malfunctioning during crashes, will be tested by a research organization in San Antonio.Opinion
Who Really Tore Down This Wall?
Readers offer varying causes for the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.Your Money
Saving Ourselves From Not Saving
Americans do not appear to save enough, but individuals have options for addressing this admittedly touchy subject.On Income Stagnation
Sorry about lack of posting; I’m scrambling on a couple of fronts, most crucially textbook revisions …
But I did want to share a couple of thoughts on the income stagnation issue, where a piece by David Leonhardt has been deservedly getting a lot of attention.
The first point is
that although Leonhardt talks about wages, the chart he shows is median
income, which is a somewhat different story. Wages for ordinary workers
have in fact been stagnant since the 1970s, very much including the
Reagan years, with the only major break during part of the Clinton boom.
My first chart shows wages of production and nonsupervisory workers in
2014 dollars; we have never gotten back to 1973 levels.
The second point is
that rising inequality is a big part of the story for stagnating
household incomes. My second chart shows real GDP per household —
nominal GDP, deflated by the consumer price index, divided by the total
number of households; and compares it with median household income, both
expressed as indexes with 1979=100. We’ve had substantial income growth
since then, but very little for the median household, because so much
of it has gone to the top.
So if Republicans are
gaining from public frustration here, it is ironic. After all, the GOP
is systematically opposed to anything that would increase workers’
bargaining power, and bitterly opposed to any suggestion that inequality
is an issue — what we need, they say, is growth, which will raise all
incomes (even though it hasn’t).""
U.S.
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