5.12.2005

That About Sums It Up

One of my favorite professors from Northeastern, Andrew Sum, is the source material for one of my least-favorite editorialists, Bob Herbert. But where Sum (in my experience) would rather spend the majority of his time discussing solutions, Herbert quotes him only in describing the problems with employment today. Maybe that's because Herbert doesn't like Sum's recipe for fixing the problem of youth unemployment: more responsibility and earlier marriage, combined with income-redistribution measures that reward work.