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last updated: June 17, 2011

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LBO editor Doug Henwood’s late-1980s pieces for the late journal Grand Street

Does Paul Krugman crib from LBO?

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income mobility • how the U.S. stacks up on the economics of education • deficit hysteria • the employment stats: pseudo-critical mythmaking

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In and out of school How the U.S. stacks up internationally on education spending, enrollment, attainment (hint: not so well)

Beastly numbers How do you explain educational outcomes? Poverty, mostly.

What a damn mess Just how bad does this economy suck? Real bad.

2009: income down, poverty up, more uninsured income & poverty in the U.S.

Charter to nowhere Do charter schools work, and if so, for whom?

Old world, new crisis The EU melodrama

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