N.Y. Times Articles of Interest from the past weeks

This is just a list of poverty related articles of interest from this past few weeks:

• Jared Diamond, "What's Your Consumption Factor?" NY Times Jan. 2, 2008 [discussing consumption in developed countries versus the rest of the world]
• Jonathan D. Glater, "Harvard's Aid to Middle Class Pressures Rivals," NY Times Dec. 29, 2007 [related to earlier blog post on Harvard's announcement]
• David Jay Johnson, "Professor Cites Bible in Faulting Tax Policies," NY Times Dec. 25, 2007 [discussing the relationship of a religious duty to care for the poor with tax policy that is the focus of law professor Susan Pace Hamill's work] 
• David Leonhardt, "Age of Riches: Two Candidates, Two Fortunes, Two Distinct Views of Wealth," NY Times Dec. 23, 2007 [comparing Romney and Edwards according to how they became wealthy and their takes on their own wealth]
• Steven Greenhouse, "Tomato Pickers' Wages Fight Faces Obstacles," NY Times Dec. 24, 2007 [describing the heavy-handed tactics of Burger King in resisting a $.01/pound wage increase for pickers]
• Ian Urbana, "In Kentucky's Teeth, Toll of Poverty and Neglect," NY Times Dec. 24, 2007 [discussing need for dental care in KY]

-E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu