Paul Krugman's column on Bernie Ward's reading list -- streaming

[Bozita]

http://www.kgoam810.com/listenlive.asp

Krugman: Select your parents carefully or the career ladder you're climbing may not have all of the rungs.

complete column available at:
http://www.nevadathunder.com /
http://www.pekingduck.org/archives/2006_02.php

[bananas]

1. The full article is at truthout

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x535046
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022706Z.shtml

[Bozita]

2. The # of jewels in the family's bootstraps counts more than anything

from the column:

"A new research paper by Ian Dew-Becker and Robert Gordon of Northwestern University, "Where Did the Productivity Growth Go?," gives the details. Between 1972 and 2001 the wage and salary income of Americans at the 90th percentile of the income distribution rose only 34 percent, or about 1 percent per year…But income at the 99th percentile rose 87 percent; income at the 99.9th percentile rose 181 percent; and income at the 99.99th percentile rose 497 percent. No, that's not a misprint…"