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Promoting them. we do know that the initial publication from our study that emphasized the outcome of reducing symptoms showed often dramatic benefits of the medication but subsequent publications where we looked more broadly at academics and social skills and family discipline styles showed the clear and superior benefits of combining the medications with active family and school behavior therapy. >> this is what one of the study's co-authors told "new york times." i hope it didn't do irrepperable damage. the kids pay the biggest price in all this. what needs to happen now? >> i think several...

European countries do much better at moving poor people up the ladder than the united states. they point out that the united states cannot be compared with denmark, an ethnically homogeneous country of five million people. but in an essay published last week, canada is a very useful point of comparison for the united states because it is much like america. the percentage of foreign-born canadians, for example, is actually higher than americans. and recent research finds that people in canada and australia have twice the economic mobility of americans. what is intriguing is that many of the fac...

Mobility. that's why salt lake city dominated by mormons has extremely high mobility rankings. this would also explain why america in general fares badly. the u.s. has many more broken families, single parents and dysfunctional domestic arrangements than canada and europe. the other notable feature in the harvard/berkeley study is the design of cities. places that are segregated, where the poor live far from the middle class do much worse than those that are more mixed. this probably has to do with geography. it's hard to physically get to jobs when they're far away. it might also mean that pe...

States. they pointing out that the united states cannot be compared with denmark, an ethnically homogeneous country of five million people. but in an essay published last week, canada is a very useful point of comparison for the united states because it is much like america. the percentage of foreign-born canadians, for example, is actually higher than americans. and recent research finds that people in canada and australia have twice the economic mobility of americans. what is intriguing is that many of the factors that seem to explain the variation across countries also explain the variation...

On things like unemployment benefit extensions or do we get to reduce the decifit now, do we stop growing the decifit now. it's a very intense debate, and it's on right now. gregg: well, and it's not just anecdotal evidence as i cited with my first question, but there was a u.c. berkeley study that found in at least one instant, in previous unemployment benefits, it was adding on to the unemployment, it was just making matters worse. but look, when you're talking about 30 or $40 billion in added debt to extend unemployment benefits, i mean, what's the -- does that have a tendency that increase...