News Clips: Week of March 28-April 3

Mar 29 2016

The following is a compilation of media clips in which WWS faculty members have been mentioned, cited or quoted. This list is updated weekly. If an item is missing, please email extaff@princeton.edu, and we will add it promptly.

Kelly: Is this the end of the American Dream?
NorthJersey.com (quotes Julian Zelizer)

When we fix aid rate, it's to help US, not them, says Nobel Prize winning economist ANGUS DEATON
Daily Mail (by Angus Deaton)

Average voter diminished by dark money
Arizona Daily Sun (mentions Martin Gilens)

Job growth in past decade was in temp, contract workers
MyStatesman.com (mentions Alan Krueger)

Setting pace for wage hikes a risky business
Idaho Statesman (mentions Alan Krueger)

$15 Minimum Wage Might Kill Jobs, and That's OK
Valley News (mentions Alan Krueger)

March Jobs Report Highlights Rise In Non-Traditional Employment
One News Page (mentions Alan Krueger)

Of Course The Uber Model Translate: Just Look At Libraries For An Example
Forbes (mentions Alan Krueger)

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Slate (quotes Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong)

Top-heavy dispersal of wealth linked to lower life evaluations
Phys.org (mentions Angus Deaton)

Stand Up For Jean Dreze & Co
Outlook India (mentions Angus Deaton)

Fast Good Workers Join Forces With Teachers To Fight For Better Pay
ThinkProgress (mentions Alan Krueger)

The consolation prize for not getting into Harvard or Stanford
MarketWatch (mentions Alan Krueger)

Analysis: $15 minimum wage might kill jobs - and that's OK
Houston Chronicle (mentions Alan Krueger)

Will raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour kill jobs?
CBS News (quotes Alan Krueger)

March Jobs Report Highlights Rise In Non-Traditional Employment
NPR (interview with Alan Krueger)

Is Kasich overboard on security?
The Columbus Dispatch (quotes Thomas Christensen)

Delusions of objectivity
Financial Times (mentions Emily Pronin)

Labor market shifting into new gear: Alan Krueger
CNBC (interview with Alan Krueger)

Top DC Chef: I Couldn't be Where I Am with $15 an Hour Minimum Wage
Independent Women's Forum (blog) (quotes Alan Krueger)

Temps and contractors accounted for all US job growth since 2005
World Socialist Web Site (quotes Alan Krueger)

Hillary Clinton and the Demise of the Working Class
CounterPunch (mentions Alan Krueger)

Happy Jobs Day
Politico (mentions Alan Krueger)

Higher Minimum Wages Cost Jobs, Shrink The Economy And Make Everyone Poorer
Forbes (opinion) (mentions Alan Krueger)

California's $15 Minimum Wage Makes A Lot Less Sense Outside Of Silicon Valley
FiveThirtyEight (mentions Alan Krueger)

The $15 minimum wage sweeping the nation might kill jobs - and that's OK
Washington Post (mentions Alan Krueger)

Job growth in past decade was in temp and contract
Boston.com (quotes Alan Krueger)

Fixing the Freest Marketplace Money Can Buy
Stanford Social Innovation Review (quotes Martin Gilens)

Bernie's Bad Ideas
Reason.com (quotes Alan Krueger)

Top-heavy dispersal of wealth linked to lower life evaluations
Cornell Chronicle (mentions Angus Deaton)

Contractors And Temps Were 100% Of Job Growth in US: And That's A Good Thing
Forbes (opinion) (quotes Alan Krueger)

Editorial: Legislature ready to start massive experiment with wage hike
Ventura County Star (editorial) (mentions Alan Krueger)

The risks of California's minimum-wage increase
Washington Post (opinion) (mentions Alan Krueger)

How the GOP blew it on the minimum wage
The Week Magazine (quotes Alan Krueger)

Even left-leaning economists say California's $15 minimum wage is a gamble
Vox (quotes Alan Krueger)

March Employment Report Preview
Financial Advisor (mentions Alan Blinder)

Yellen's Comments Moved Markets -- But Are Fed Forecasts Accurate?
TheStreet.com (mentions Alan Blinder)

It's Spending, Not Tax Cuts, That Ballooned the Deficit
Wall Street Journal (opinion) (quotes Alan Blinder)

How to Resolve the Syrian Crisis and Alleviate the ISIS Threat
The World Post (by Seyed Hossein Mousavian)

Sanders, Socialism, and the Shafted Generation
Common Dreams (mentions Alan Krueger)

Growing US labour market belies morose mood
Financial Times (quotes Alan Blinder)

OPINION: Fox News a bully that just can't take it
Daily Record (by Steven Strauss)

Scientists recommend closing MOX and exploring other alternatives
Aiken Standard (quotes Frank von Hippel)

Ciência do envelhecimento busca fonte da juventude eterna
O TEMPO (mentions Angus Deaton)

A Major Leap for the Minimum Wage - The Atlantic
KBET 790 Talk Now (quotes Alan Krueger)

Bernie Sanders Will Make the Economy Great Again
The Nation (mentions Paul Starr)

A Major Leap for the Minimum Wage
The Atlantic (quotes Alan Krueger)

If the Gig Is Up, What Really is the Future of Work?
Spend Matters (quotes Alan Krueger)

Economists say Uber drivers aren't a 'new kind of worker'
Fusion (quotes Alan Krueger)

U. changes course selection, academic advising system for upperclassmen
The Daily Princetonian (quotes Christina Davis)

Gless Kessler: I Will See Your Four Pinocchios and Raise You Four More
Blue Virginia (blog) (quotes Uwe Reinhardt)

Sorry, GOP, the economy has done better under Democratic presidents
Crain's New York Business (quotes Alan Blinder and Mark Watson)

Yellen Gets Even More Dovish, Surprising Markets
Barron's (blog) (mentions Alan Blinder)

Fed Chief Janet Yellen Turns Dovish
Fortune (mentions Alan Blinder)

Yellen stresses that Fed foresees gradual pace of rate hikes
The Olympian (mentions Alan Blinder)

Seeking a Ban on Highly Enriched Uranium Production
Noodls (quotes Frank von Hippel)

Who becomes a terrorist?
Bangkok Post (mentions Alan Krueger)

Why the poor do better on these simple tests of financial common sense (WaPo)
Democratic Underground (mentions Eldar Shafir)

Sanders, Socialism and the Shafted Generation
The American Prospect (mentions Alan Krueger)

Boy, That Minimum Wage Escalates Quickly
The Weekly Standard (blog) (quotes Alan Krueger)

Economic Nonsense About Britain's National Living Wage
Forbes (mentions Alan Krueger)

Harvard economist: All net U.S. job growth since 2005 has been in contracting gigs
Fusion (quotes Alan Krueger)

Is the gig economy really just the Uber economy?
Marketplace.org (mentions Alan Krueger)

The Entire Online Gig Economy Might Be Mostly Uber
Wall Street Journal (blog) (quotes Alan Krueger)

How to make an Uber-ized economy work in America
Quartz (mentions Alan Krueger)

Jean Dreze: I Am Not A Naxalite, I Am Not A Foreigner
Huffington Post India (mentions Angus Deaton)

Preview: Yellen could shift rhetoric on Tuesday (but she probably won't)
ForexLive (mentions Alan Blinder)

Growing labour force belies grim US mood
Financial Times (quotes Alan Blinder)

Egyptair Hijack and Yellen Talks--5 Thing to Know Today
Fortune (mentions Alan Blinder)

At Schneier Program Event, Experts Weigh in on Future of U.S.-Israel Relations
The Commentator (quotes Daniel Kurtzer)

Who becomes a terrorist? Experts have few answers
Orange County Register (mentions Alan Krueger)

Don't cry for Fox News: Column
IndyStar (by Steven Strauss)

Cuídense de las limitaciones del libre comercio
ElPeriódico de Guatemala (quotes Alan Blinder)

The US economy does a lot better when Democrats are in the White House
Quartz (mentions Alan Blinder and Mark Watson)

Five Ways Not to "Make America Great Again," and One Way to Do It
Truth-Out (quotes Martin Gilens)

Economic inequality and the American Dream
Ceylon Daily News (mentions Alan Krueger)

Explaining terrorist behavior: a tough task
Bend Bulletin (mentions Alan Krueger)

Uber Efficiency
Seeking Alpha (mentions Alan Krueger)

Massachusetts, 1912: How The Minimum Wage Became The Policy Monster It Is Today
The Libertarian Republic (mentions Alan Krueger)

There is no Uber economy, there is only Uber
Quartz (quotes Alan Krueger)

Sanders, Socialism and the Shafted Generation
Huffington Post (mentions Alan Krueger)

California's $15 Minimum Wage Deal Will Cause Unemployment--And We Have Proof Of This
Forbes (mentions Alan Krueger)

Finding Maoists in Kitchens and Gardens
The Citizen (mentions Angus Deaton)

'37 yrs in India and I've never faced public hostility, until now'
Catch News (mentions Angus Deaton)

Weekly Risk Outlook - Federal Reserve chair speaks as Fed backs away from rate hikes
Global Risk Insights (mentions Alan Blinder)