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June 29 - July 26, 2002

Work and Education

Article: Greg Ip. 2002. “Unemployment Hit 5.9% in June; Revisions Show Grim Job Picture.” The Wall Street Journal. 7/5/02.
Summary: The U.S. unemployment rate edged up to 5.9 percent last month as employers remained reluctant to add new workers to their payrolls.
Location: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025872196561092840,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
Study: United States Department of Labor. 2002. Employment Situation Summary.
Available from: United States Department of Labor, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Price: Free
Keywords: job security; unemployment

Article: Beth Kobliner. 2002. “Learn Now, Pay Back (Somewhat Less) Later.” The New York Times. 6/30/02.
Summary: Students have been increasing their borrowing over the last decade—nearly two-thirds of all college seniors graduate with loans—because of both skyrocketing college costs and a wide expansion of the federal student loan program.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/business/yourmoney/30DEBT.html
Study: Tracey King and Ellynne Bannon. 2002. The Burden of Borrowing: A Report on the Rising Rates of Student Loan Debt.
Available from: U.S. Public Interest Research Group, http://www.pirg.org/highered/BurdenofBorrowing.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: colleges & universities; debt

Article: Fred Brock. 2002. “The New Retirement Comes in Four Financial Flavors.” The New York Times. 7/7/02.
Summary:  A recent study of current retirees has identified four main types of retirees and found that traditional notions of what retirement means are pretty much out the window.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/business/yourmoney/07SENI.html
Study: Ken Dychtwald et al. 2002. The AIG SunAmerica Re-Visioning Retirement Survey.
Available from: AIG SunAmerica, http://visualize-retirement.com/
Price: Free
Keywords: income security; retirement

Article: Helen Rumbelow. 2002. "Study Notes More Children With Immigrant Parents." The Washington Post, A02. 7/12/02.
Summary: Nearly 1 in 5 children live with at least one parent who was born outside the United States, and they are much more likely to live below the poverty line and have other risk factors for ill health and poor educational development.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58000-2002Jul11.html
Study: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. 2002. America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well Being 2002.
Available from: Child Stats.gov, http://www.ChildStats.gov/americaschildren/
Price: Free  
Keywords: children; immigration

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Politics and Society

Article: Riva Richmond. 2002. “IT Pros Predict Terrorists Will Use Net to Attack U.S. Infrastructure.” The Wall Street Journal. 6/29/02.
Summary: Information-technology professionals overwhelmingly believe elements of the country’s critical infrastructure, including utility grids, financial institutions, communications systems and transportation system, will be the target of a “major cyberattack” in the next 12 months.
Location: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,4286,SB1025205346273574280-search,00.html?collection=wsjie/30day&vql-string=%28study%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29
Study: Ipos-Reid. 2002. IT Pros Rate the Likelihood  of Cyber Attack on Critical Infrastructures.
Available from: Business Software Alliance, http://www.bsa.org/resources/2002-06-27.132.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: safety; technology

Article: Richard Benedetto. 2002. “Business News Alters Perceptions of Bush.” USA Today. 7/9/02.
Summary: Public confidence in President Bush’s ability to manage the economy and look out for the interests of ordinary Americans appears to be eroding as business scandals mount and Democrats question his past business practices.
Location: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/07/09/usat-poll.htm
Study: USA Today/CNN/The Gallup Organization. 2002. Many Americans Have Financial Worries.
Available from: USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/news/2002-07-09-poll.htm
Price: Free
Keywords: business; public opinion

Article: Jennifer Loven. 2002. "President Promotes Prescription Drug Plan." The Washington Post. 7/11/02.
Summary: Seeking to nudge Congress his direction on prescription drug coverage for senior citizens, President Bush on Thursday promoted a new report by his administration claiming privately run plans are better for patients than government-controlled insurance programs.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56671-2002Jul11.html
Study: Department of Health and Human Services. 2002. Securing the Benefits of Medical Innovation for Seniors: The Role of Prescription Drugs and Drug Coverage.
Available from: Department of Health and Human Services, http://www.dhhs.gov
Price: Free
Keywords: health insurance; prescription drugs

Article: Elizabeth Becker. 2002. “Brookings Study Calls Homeland Security Plans too Ambitious.” The New York Times. 7/14/02.
Summary: Arguing that the president’s plan for a new Department of Homeland Security is too ambitious and could create more problems than it solves, the Brookings Institution recommends a pared-down department concentrating on border and transportation security, intelligence and threat analysis, and protecting the country’s infrastructure.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/politics/14HOME.html
Study: Ivo Daalder et al. 2002. Assessing the Department of Homeland Security.
Available from: The Brookings Institution, http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/fp/projects/homeland/assessdhs.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: federal government; safety

Article: Richard W. Stevenson and Janet Elder. 2002. “Poll Finds Concerns That Bush Is Overly Influenced by Business.” The New York Times. 7/18/02.
Summary: Americans worry that President Bush and his administration are too heavily influenced by big business, fear that Mr. Bush is hiding something about his own corporate past and judge the economy to be in its worst shape since 1994.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/18/politics/18POLL.html
Study:  The New York Times and CBS News. 2002. High Marks for Bush, With Some Unease
Available from: The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/18/politics/18POLL.html
Price: Free
Keywords: business; public opinion

Article: Barbara Crossette. 2002. “U.N. Report Says New Democracies Falter.” The New York Times. 7/24/02.
Summary: The United Nations is warning that gains made with the emergence of dozens of democracies over the past decade now risk being reversed, with authoritarian leaders manipulating elections and millions losing faith in democratic systems.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/international/24DEMO.html
Study: The United Nations Development Program. 2002. Human Development Report 2002: Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World.
Available from: Oxford University Press, http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195219155.html
Price: $22.95
Keywords: government; international comparisons

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Family Life

Article: Anitha Reddy. 2002. “Music Industry Gets Heat for Ads to Youths.” The Washington Post, E01. 6/29/02.
Summary: The music industry still advertises albums with explicit lyrics on TV shows and in teen magazines, while movie and video game companies have significantly curtailed the marketing of violence to young people.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63925-2002Jun28.html
Study: Timothy Muris et al. 2002. Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Report to Congress.
Available from: The Federal Trade Commission, http://www.ftc.gov/reports/violence/mvecrpt0206.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: teenagers; violence

Article: David Snyder. 2002. “Neighborhood Integration Increases.” The Washington Post, AA03. 7/4/02.
Summary: Neighborhood segregation in suburban Maryland generally declined during the 1990s, with a notable exception in Prince George’s County, where the number of black residents living in majority-black neighborhoods increased by about 6 percentage points.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18670-2002Jul3.html
Study: Maryland Department of Planning. 2002. 1990 & 2000 Black and White Neighborhood Concentrations in Maryland.
Available from: Maryland Department of Planning, http://www.mdp.state.md.us/msdc/census/cen2000/housing_patterns/sumry1990.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: demographics; racial comparisons  

Article: Stephanie Strom. 2002. “9/11 Victims Need $768 Million in Aid Into 2003, Study Says.” The New York Times. 7/8/02.
Summary: Meeting the continuing needs of direct and indirect victims of the World Trade Center attack will cost $768 million over the next year.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/08/nyregion/08STUD.html
Study: McKinsey and Co. 2002. A Study of the Ongoing Needs of People Affected by the World Trade Center Disaster.
Available from: 9/11 United Services Group, http://www.9-11usg.org/Ongoing_Needs_Study_7_8_02.pdf
Price: Free  
Keywords: federal expenditures; mental health

Article: Associated Press. 2002. "U.S.: Men Pay More Financial Support." The New York Times. 7/12/02.
Summary: Three of four Americans who receive financial support from someone outside their homes are children. Typically, men pay about one-third more in support than women.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Family-Support.html
Study: Wil Masumara. 2002. Who's Helping Out? Financial Support
Networks Among American Households: 1997.
Available from: The Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov
Price: Free
Keywords: families; gender comparisons

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Health and Reproductive Issues 

Article: Reuters. 2002. “UN: AIDS Epidemic Surges, 70 Million May Die.” The New York Times. 7/02/02.
Summary: AIDS will kill 70 million people over the next 20 years unless rich nations step up their efforts to curb the disease.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-aids-un.html
Study: UNAIDS. 2002. The Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic.
Available from: UNAIDS, http://www.unaids.org/barcelona/presskit/report.html
Price: Free
Keywords: AIDS; HIV

Article: Eric Nagourney. 2002. “Outcomes: Dangers From Lead, in the Womb.” The New York Times. 7/02/02.
Summary: Babies born to women with high levels of lead in their bones face the same sort of developmental problems as babies exposed to lead form sources like old paint.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/health/02OUTC.html
Study: Ahmed Gomaa et al. 2002. Maternal Bone Lead as an Independent Risk Factor for Fetal Neurotoxicity, A Prospective Study.
Available From: Pediatrics. 2002. http://www.pediatrics.org
Price: $10.00
Keywords: child development; pregnancy

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Caution on Hormone Replacement.” The New York Times. 7/9/02.
Summary: Long-term use of estrogen and progestin significantly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer, strokes and heart attacks.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/health/AP-Estrogen-Risk.html
Study: Jacques E. Rossouw et al. 2002. Risks and Benefits of Estrogen Plus Progestin in Healthy Postmenopausal Women.
Available from: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 2002. http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v288n3/ffull/joc21036.html
Price: Free  
Keywords: health risks; medical treatment

Article: Richard Morin and Claudia Deane. 2002. “Americans on AIDS in Africa: Help and Discipline Needed.” The Washington Post, A03. 7/6/02.
Summary: Most Americans favor modest and targeted increases in spending on the global AIDS crisis but many believe any additional money will do little to slow the spread of AIDS in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30670-2002Jul5.html
Study: Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University. 2002. Poll: Increasing Funding to Combat AIDS Has Little Effect.
Available from:: The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/vault/stories/data070302.htm
Price: Free  
Keywords: AIDS; public opinion

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Study: Chemo May Not Help Fight Cancer.” The New York Times. 7/17/02.
Summary: For post-menopausal women with breast cancer that is affected by estrogen, chemotherapy may offer no benefit and a five-year course after surgery of tamoxifen, which blocks the hormone, may be the only treatment needed.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/health/AP-Breast-Cancer.html
Study: M. Castiglione-Gertsch et al. 2002. Endocrine Responsiveness and Tailoring Adjuvant Therapy for Postmenopausal Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer.
Available from: The Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Vol. 94, No. 14, July 17, 2002. http://jncicancerspectrum.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jnci;94/14/1054
Price: $17.00
Keywords: cancer, breast; treatment 

Article: Reuters. 2002. “Study Shows Estrogen Therapy to Raise Risk of Ovarian Cancer.” The New York Times. 7/17/02.
Summary: Women treated only with estrogen after menopause ran a higher risk of ovarian cancer than women not taking any form of hormone replacement.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/health/17HORM.html
Study: James Lacey et al. 2002. Menopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy and Risk of Ovarian Cancer.
Available from: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 288, No. 3, July 17, 2002. http://jama.ama-assn.org/
Price: $9.00
Keywords: cancer; hormone replacement therapy

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Breast-Feeding Again Linked to Less Cancer.” The New York Times. 7/23/02.
Summary: If women in the industrialized world breast-fed each of their children six months longer, they could reduce their chance of breast cancer five percent, even if they have strong family histories of the disease.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/23/health/23BABY.html
Study: V. Beral et al. 2002. Breast cancer and Breastfeeding: Collaborative Reanalysis of Individual Data.
Available from: The Lancet Vol.360, No. 9328 July 20, 2002. http://www.thelancet.com/
Price: Free
Keywords: cancer, breast; prevention

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Women Recall Emotional Issues Better.” The New York Times. 7/23/02.
Summary:  When groups of women and men were tested for their ability to recall or recognize highly evocative photographs three weeks after first seeing them, a team of psychologists found that the women’s memories were 10 to 15 percentage points more accurate.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Memory--The-Sexes.html
Study: Turhan Canli et al. 2002. Sex Differences in the Neural Basis of Emotional Memories.
Available from: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, http://www.pnas.org/
Price:  $5.00
Keywords: gender comparisons; women

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Poverty and Income

Article: Albert Crenshaw. 2002. “Colleges Out of Reach for Low-Income Students.” The Washington Post, H04. 6/30/02.
Summary: While the middle class struggles with college costs, an increasing number of lower-income parents are defeated by them. Children from families that are primarily immigrants and minorities will be shut out of college by a combination of rising tuition and stagnant aid programs.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64875-2002Jun29.html
Study: Juliet Garcia et al. 2002. Empty Promises: The Myth of College Access in America.
Available from: The Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, http://www.ed.gov/offices/AC/ACSFA/emptypromises.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: colleges & universities; poverty

Article: Reuters. 2002. “Globalization Has Helped Poor, Study Says.” The New York Times. 7/7/02.
Summary: Far from creating poverty as critics claim, rapid globalization of the world economy has sliced the proportion of abject poor across the planet, according to a controversial new study.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-financial-poor.html
Study: Francois Bourguignon et al. 2002. CEPR Policy Paper 8: Making Sense of Globalization.
Available from: The Centre for Economic Policy Research, http://www.cepr.org/pubs/books/cepr/booklist.asp?cvno=PP8
Price: $11.60  
Keywords: international comparisons; poverty

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Report Cites Unequal Health Spending.” The New York Times. 7/9/02.
Summary: Residents in the Northeast spend more on personal health care than those in Western states like Utah, Idaho, and Arizona, due to higher incomes and greater costs in cities.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Health-Care-Spending.html
Study: Anne Martin et al. 2002. Health Care Spending During 1991-1998: A 50-State Review.
Available from: Health Affairs, http://130.94.25.113/1130_abstract_c.php?ID=http://130.94.25.113/Library/v21n4/s17.pdf
Price: $9.95  
Keywords: health care costs; income distribution

Article: Richard Morin and Claudia Deane. 2002. “A Welfare Gap For Those With Disabilities.” The Washington Post, A15. 7/16/02.
Summary: Nearly half of all single mothers receiving welfare benefits have a child with a disability or are disabled themselves, and only a small percentage are receiving traditional government disability assistance.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10213-2002Jul15.html
Study: Sunhwa Lee et al. 2002. Disabilities Among Children and Mothers in Low-Income Families.
Available from: The Institute for Women's Policy Research, http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/d449.pdf
Price: Free 
Keywords: health; welfare

Article: Sarah Park. 2002. “For Welfare Kids, a Sickening ‘Reform.’” The Washington Post, HE03. 7/23/02.
Summary: Infants and toddlers whose families’ welfare benefits were reduced or eliminated as a result of the 1996 welfare reform are nearly twice as likely to be hospitalized during an emergency room visit as are children of other welfare recipients.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46436-2002Jul22.html
Study: John T. Cook et al. 2002. Welfare Reform and the Health of Young Children, A Sentinel Survey in Six U.S. Cities.
Available from: The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Vol. 156 No. 7, July 2002. http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/issues/v156n7/abs/poa10421.html
Price: $9.00
Keywords: children; welfare

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Of Interest

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Peru Women Cops Face Macho Backlash.” The New York Times. 7/1/02.
Summary: In Peru, some 1,450 female police officers assigned to street duty make up 73 percent of the transit police force, but they account for 90 percent of 137 abuse cases reported in the first half of this year alone.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Peru-Women-Cops.html
Keywords: international comparisons; violence

Article: Tamar Lewin. 2002. “Alternatives to Neighborhood Schools Are Vaster Than Ever.” The New York Times. 7/3/02.
Summary: The landscape of American public schools is slowly fragmenting, breaking into a wider array of educational choices.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/29/education/29VOUC.html
Keywords: education; school vouchers

Article: Maggie Jackson. 2002. “Companies Adding Benefits for Care of the Elderly.” The New York Times. 7/7/02.
Summary: A new class of corporate benefits are being offered to some of the nation’s 15 million or so workers who provide care for the elderly.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/business/yourmoney/07ELDE.html
Keywords: elderly care; employee benefits

Article: Jon Jeter. 2002. “South Africa Weighs a Welfare State.” The New York Times. 7/9/02.
Summary: Nearly a century after Europe and the United States began cushioning their poorest citizens with cash and other benefits, South Africa is the first nation in Africa to earnestly weigh whether the dole can work for a population for which poverty is not the exception but the rule.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41596-2002Jul8.html
Keywords: international comparison; welfare

Article: Tamar Lewin. 2002. “Study Links Working Mothers to Slower Learning.” The New York Times. 7/17/02.
Summary: Three-year-olds from an average home environment, in average-quality child care, whose mother did not work by the ninth month, scored at the 50^th percentile on the Bracken School Readiness test, which assesses children’s knowledge of colors, letters, numbers, shapes and comparisons.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/education/17CHIL.html 
Keywords: child development; parenting

Article:  Ian Fisher. 2002. “Account of Punjab Rape Tells of a Brutal Society.” The New York Times. 7/17/02.
Summary: Gang rape, horrifying as it is, is not uncommon in the southern Punjab province. What has shocked Pakistan is that a tribal council here, for the first time anyone can remember, decreed gang rape as a punishment to avenge an episode of illicit sex—one that probably never happened in the first place.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/international/asia/17RAPE.html
Keywords: international comparisons; violence

Article: Tamar Lewin. 2002. “A Child Study Is a Peek. It’s Not the Whole Picture.” The New York Times. 7/21/02.
Summary: Contradictory truths emerging form the nation’s most comprehensive child-care study are only partial snapshots, but in the heat of the continuing debate over working mothers, they have heightened the anxieties many parents already feel.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/weekinreview/21LEWI.html
Keywords: child development; workforce demographics

Article: Alex. Kuzynski. 2002. “It’s Still a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World.” The New York Times. 7/21/02.
Summary: For all the talk about golf’s having become a sport of inclusion, events last week exposed some rents in the theory.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/fashion/21GOLF.html
Keywords: discrimination; sports