In this week’s Underreported feature, Avis Jones-DeWeever from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research offers some perspective on the recent Census Bureau findings on the earning gap between men and women, and between white women and minorities. Next, sportswriter Ben Green joins Harlem Globetrotters Eathan O’Bryant and Dr. John Kline for a look at the team’s past and present. Then, we’ll open up the phones and get your thoughts on whether the media is overly saturated with celebrity coverage. And we’ll end with a panel discussion about the business of publishing, and how the roles of editors and literary agents are changing.
Wage Gaps
Avis Jones-DeWeever, the Poverty, Welfare, and Income Security Study Director for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, gives us an update on the earning gap between men and women, and how race further widens wage discrepancies. Women earn 76 cents for every dollar earned by the average American man. But ...
Spinning the Globe
Sportswriter Ben Green, current Harlem Globetrotter Eathan O’Bryant, and retired player Dr. John Kline, examine the history and significance of one of basketball’s most famous teams in Spinning the Globe.
Events:
Reading and book signing
Friday, May 6 at 1PM
Barnes & Noble at Rockefeller ...
Events:
Reading and book signing
Friday, May 6 at 1PM
Barnes & Noble at Rockefeller ...
Open Phones
Judging by peoples' subway reading material, sometimes it seems like the latest details of Brad Pitt's love life are just as important as the future of Social Security. Have we become a celebrity-obsessed culture? Is it safe to say that stars are the new American heroes? Some special callers weigh ...
Inside Publishing
Mary Gannon, Editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, Becky Saletan, Editor in Chief of Harcourt, and literary agent Stuart Krichevsky, from the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, discuss the business of publishing relationships, and how the roles of editors and agents are changing in an increasingly market-driven literary landscape.
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