Written by John Lounsbury
Early Bird Headlines 10 September 2015
Econintersect: Here are some of the headlines we found to help you start your day. For more headlines see our afternoon feature for GEI members, What We Read Today, which has many more headlines and a number of article discussions to keep you abreast of what we have found interesting.
Global
- Asia stocks stumble as gloomy China, Japan data add to growth worries (Reuters) Asian stocks fell on Thursday after lackluster Chinese and Japanese economic data added to heightened worries about slackening global growth, sapping investors’ appetite for riskier assets. Econintersect: Is the global rally over already?
- The other immigrants: how the super-richskirt quotas and closed borders (The Conversation) It is not only the poor and the displaced who are on the move. The rich, especially from countries such as Russia and China, are also leaving their home countries, but they are not faced with fences and rejection but welcomes and encouragement. A review of these policies highlights the dramatic differences between rich and poor when it comes to immigration. It also reveals the dubious economic benefits of catering to the super-rich. Econintersect: In much of the developed world there is demonstrable economic benefit for increasing immigration by the poor and the young, especially were populations are peaking or already declining. We will look for studies of these effects and post them in full or in our “reading lists” for discussion.
U.S.
- Number of homeless school children in NYC soars to 87,000, new report reveals (Daily News) About 87,000 New York City school children were living in homeless shelters or temporary housing in the 2013-2014 school year, according to a new report on the latest available figures. The number has shot up a whopping 71% since 2007-2008, when about 51,000 homeless students attended city schools. In the last year alone, there were about 6,600 more homeless students in the schools, according to the report by the non-profit Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness. City officials said there are now roughly 23,000 homeless children living in shelters, including those who many not be of school age.
- EXCLUSIVE: James Blake, former tennis star, slammed to ground and handcuffed outside midtown hotel by white NYPD cops who mistook him for ID theft suspect (Daily News) Retired black tennis star James Blake, in an NYPD double-fault, was slammed to a Manhattan sidewalk and handcuffed by a white cop in a brutal case of mistaken identity. The 35-year-old Blake, once ranked No. 4 in the world, suffered a cut to his left elbow and bruises to his left leg as five cops eventually held him for 15 minutes Wednesday outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
