The Brian Lehrer Show: The Ups and Downs of New York Living

The Brian Lehrer Show

The Ups and Downs of New York Living

Friday, June 16, 2006

((WNYC/Amy Pearl))

New York City: Better on crime but worse on inflation? We’ll be looking at statistics, out this week, that show gangs are leaving the city because our cops are so effective – and moving to smaller neighboring towns. Meanwhile, the cost of living in New York is rising faster than in the nation as a whole. We find out why. Plus: The status of the strife in Somalia; an author who looks at the lost art of loafing; and your advice for new graduates.

Bright Lights, Big City, Empty Pockets

Marisa DeNatale, economist at Moody's Economy.com
- on rising inflation and cost of living in New York

» Moody's Economy.com

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Crime: New York's Next Big Export?

Andrew Karmen, criminologist, professor of sociology at John Jay College and author, New York Murder Mystery The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s ( NYU Press, 2000)
- on why New York's crime rate is going down while crime in surrounding cities and suburbs ...

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Much Ado

Tom Lutz, author, Doing Nothing A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006)
- on Americans' attitude toward "down-time"

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Horn of Africa Dilemma

Ken Menkhaus, professor of political science at Davidson College in North Carolina, consultant on Somalia to the U.N., N.G.O.'s and the U.S. and author, Somalia: State Collapse and the Threat of Terrorism (Adelphi Papers) (Routledge, 2004)
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Mike Scheuer, former CIA agent, CBS terrorism analyst and author, ...

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