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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Pay Gap

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 19 2007, 8:55 AM ET Comment

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One thing you can do with the New York Times salary comparison calculator I linked to yesterday is take a look at certain kinds of pay gap issues in America. The graph above, for example, shows us that 24 year-old college educated white men earn substantially more money than do 24 year-old college educated white women and this pattern has held pretty constantly over the years. Since I believe only a small -- and decreasing over time -- number of 24 year-old college educated women have children, this ought to be a pretty apples-to-apples comparison in that sense. Most of these people are just starting out, and the men are already earning substantially more.

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