Archives for the Month of November, 2007

Growing Up in the Universe

This seems appropriate for the ‘biggest shopping day of the year.’

No God

One good measure of the profoundly conservative milieu in which we live is the lack of good rock n’ roll or rap songs that directly challenge religion. Maybe that’s going to change. You can find more of these at the media section of Flushaholybook.com.

Class, Race, Gender and Moblity

Washington, DC – 11/13/2007 – Two-thirds of American families are earning more today than their parents did a generation ago, yet their likelihood of moving up—or down—the economic ladder still depends in large measure on their parents’ position, according to a new report issued by The Economic Mobility Project, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Comprised of a Principals’ Group of experts from The American Enterprise Institute, The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation and The Urban Institute, the project seeks to investigate the status of economic mobility in America.

The project issued three reports today, each authored by Julia B. Isaacs, Child and Family Policy Fellow at Brookings, examining economic mobility across generations. The first looks at how families have…