The Briefing 05-23-14

Podcast Transcript

1) Pro-choice advocates threatened by limitations on abortion due to distastefulness of abortion

With New Bill, Abortion Limits Spread in South, New York Times (Jeremy Alford and Erik Eckholm)

2) Family reality key factor in economic poverty

Poor Too Often Led The Wrong Way To Escape Poverty, Investor’s Business Daily (Thomas Sowell)

Poverty Is Not a State of Mind, New York Times (Charles M. Blow)

3) Gender roles revealed by economic realities to be more inflexible despite social efforts

Even Scandinavia Has a CEO Gender Gap, Wall Street Journal (Christina Zander)

Study on Pay Finds a ‘Daddy Bonus’, Wall Street Journal (Jackie Bischof)