Sep 22 Girl Effect: Helping Poor Girls Makes Economic Sense By Hari Sreenivasan Infographic and Poster from Girl Effect report Each teenage mother in India can lose up to $100,000 in potential income over her lifetime. Multiply that by the number of teenage mothers in India and… Continue reading
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Sep 22 R.E.M. Breaks Up (Everybody Cries) By Molly Finnegan After 31 years as a band, R.E.M. announced Wednesday that they're calling it quits. Continue reading
Sep 22 Culture Canvas In this week's arts and culture headlines, some arts groups have voiced concern about what may happen to charitable giving if tax breaks for wealthy Americans are limited. Continue reading
Sep 22 Readers Respond on the Question of Poverty in the U.S. My blog post last week raised questions about whether most journalists understand what life is like for the tens of millions of Americans who are living in poverty. It provoked quite a few comments. I had started thinking… Continue reading
Sep 22 The Daily Frame An ink and wash illustration shows defense attorney Caleb Sidney Carlton, left, and defense witness Carolyn Bryant during the trial of her husband, Roy Bryant, and J.W. Milam in the Tallahatchie County courthouse in Sumner, Miss., on Sept. 22, 1955. Continue reading
Sep 21 Watch Denzel Washington on Dropouts: ‘Most Dangerous Time’ for Kids Right After School Denzel Washington on High School Dropouts, At-Risk Youth… Continue watching
Sep 21 Easy As Pie: Inequality In Downloadable Charts EmbedVideo(1266, 482, 304); Editor's Note: We've been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece 'Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,' we used a trio of pie charts broken down into five quintiles… Continue reading
Sep 21 ‘Last Train Home’ Goes on Long Journey With Chinese Migrant Workers By Saskia de Melker This week on the NewsHour, "Last Train Home," a documentary that looks at the annual migration of millions of factory workers for the Chinese New Year, will be airing as part of our partnership with The Economist Film Project. Jeffrey… Continue reading
Sep 21 Watch ‘Give Smart’ Offers New Look at Charitable Giving 'Give Smart' Offers New Look at Charitable Giving… Continue watching