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CRITICS AND DEFENDENS OF AMERICAN POLICY IN KOREA HAVE IGNORED CHANGES IN KOREAN POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT THAT DIFFERENTIATE THE CHOICES OPEN TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THE THEORY ADVANCED HERE IS THAT IN ORDER TO CHART AN APPROPRIATE AMERICAN COURSE IT IS NECESSARY TO AGREE ON THE FACTS OF THE SITUATION AND TO RECOGNIZE HOW OUT-OF-DATE OUR IMAGES HAVE BECOME.

ABSTRACTObjectiveThis study empirically investigates the impact of economic inequality on the cost of living in U.S. metropolitan areas.MethodsUsing a special Census tabulation, a standard cost‐of‐living model is sequentially augmented with measures of poverty and income inequality in a cross‐sectional regression analysis of 90 metropolitan areas; interaction and regional effects are also explored.ResultsHigher costs of living are associated with increasing economic inequality, especially in the distribution of metropolitan income. The effects of household poverty are significant but less consistent.ConclusionsReducing economic inequality would produce benefits enjoyed by all metropolitan residents via lower living costs. The benefits are likely to be greater in large, fast growing areas where income disparities are pronounced.

This article describes the implementation and use of a decision support system designed to conduct cross‐sectional analyses of local government finances. A hypothetical situation using actual data from Illinois counties is constructed to illustrate the uses of the system. It is argued that the incorporation of this type of information, in conjunction with other local data, may lend additional capacity in resource allocation and policy formation at both the state and local levels of government.

Journalists are tasked with holding power to account; often, that means evaluating and interpreting numbers. But anecdotally, journalists are ill at ease with figures. This shortcoming is worrying both in terms of the quality of news provided to the public, and the implications for informed democratic debate. This paper tests the assertion that journalism as a profession is numeracy-challenged through a small-scale study of the numeracy capabilities of journalism students. Some oft-cited reasons for these shortcomings are discussed, including the pressures of deadlines and the tyranny of the 24-hour news cycle, where the mantra of "never wrong for long" appears to justify a casual approach to getting numbers right. Then, drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and his notion of "cultural capital," the under-appreciated role played by symbolic culture in journalists' attitude to figures is highlighted. Symbolic culture determines what is valued by a group or sub-group of people (such as journalists), and what it is acceptable to denigrate ("I'm no good at math!" spoken as a boast). Journalism culture, it is argued, is opposed to numeracy. Finally, it is argued that in addition to the worthwhile efforts to improve numeracy skills among journalists, the culture of journalism itself needs to be transformed. The novel suggestion is made that science and math students should be encouraged to enter the profession, which has traditionally been dominated by liberal arts students.

IS NORTH KOREA ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE? WOULD ITS COLLAPSE AND ABSORPTION BY SOUTH KOREA BE DESIRABLE? OR WOULD AMERICAN INTERESTS BE BETTER SERVED BY A "SOFT LANDING"--A GRADUAL PROCESS OF UNIFICATION IN WHICH NEITHER SIDE IS SWALLOWED UP BY THE OTHER AND WASHINGTON HELPS PYONGYANG TO ACHIEVE A CHINA-STYLE ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION? THIS ARTICLE DECLARES THAT THERE IS LITTLE HOPE FOR A BREAKTHROUGH UNLESS WASHINGTON FIRST CLARIFIES ITS GOALS AND ADOPTS AN UNAMBIGIOUS "SOFT LANDING" POLICY.

ABSTRACT. Washington DC is the center of the nation's ninth largest metropolitan area (PMSA), home to 4.4 million people and 2.9 million employees in a web of 25 separate, autonomous municipalities spanning three states and the District of Columbia. As such, the region is a good place to analyze the pattern of suburbanization of producer service employment over the past 25 years. In addition to overall suburbanization, the metropolitan area has seen changes in the nature and role of its dominant economic force, the federal government. Direct federal employment has stagnated while federal contracts to private companies have soared. Producer service employment seemed to increase in importance in jurisdictions away from the region's core, simultaneous with increases in total employment, following increases in federal contracting, and independent of increases in federal employment. These trends have affected the growth of producer service employment across the metropolitan area, encouraging their suburbanization. By subjecting our initial models to sub‐sector data and analysis of temporal trends in the coefficients, we uncover the uniqueness of legal services and additional evidence of suburbanization over time.