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She's wisely gone by the time Jonah Hex starts a barroom brawl a few minutes later.
Let's hope she paid up her tab before leaving.
Aquaman : Here's the scene that happens concurrently with three other key moments in the DCNu (page 12, panel 4).
A few seconds and two panels later Aquaman says "I don't talk to fish," but she's looking in completely the opposite direction.
One of the themes of the new series is the perception the general public has of Aquaman.
Is she watching the reactions of the civilians rather than Aquaman?
Is that an important moment?
Did she order the unlimited crab legs for $17.99?
Batman: The Dark Knight marks yet another trip to Gotham City -- she's been here many more times than any place on Earth-DC, including Metropolis.
You'll find her standing just inside the gates... the open gates of Arkham Asylum (page 14, top panel).
Is it any wonder there's an Arkham break-out twice in four Batman #1 books?
Geez, guys, invest in some Master Locks.
Blackhawks : Red-Hooded Woman looks right at us...or more probably, the man taking a photo of the departing Blackhawks (page 8, panel 5).
She probably doesn't show up on the iPhone anyway (or the LexPhone or WaynePhone either).
Flash : Blink and you'll miss her: in Central City, watching Barry Allen's girlfriend (and co-worker... bad idea, Barry) Patty Spivot shepherd Barry away from the flirtations of Iris Allen (page 12, final panel).
It occurs to me: if there's no Barry/Iris romance and marriage, then where did Kid Flash in Teen Titans come from?
The Fury of Firestorm, The Nuclear Men gives us not only the longest title in today's DC publishing plan but multiple Firestorms.
R.H.W.
is there at a critical and historical moment: the birth of Firestorms Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch (page 18, panel 2).
Now that's the way to please fans of both iterations of the character.
(Psst, DC: Batgirl, Inc .
Everybody's happy.
Call me!)
Oh, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the name of Walton Mills High's football team: The Wikings.
Green Lanterns: New Guardians : Kyle Rayner: PWNED!
I bet even R.H.W.
is giggling at that (page 15, middle bottom panel).
And here's another book with substantial scenes taking place in outer space, but she appears on Earth, leaving her sole journey off planet in Legion of Super-Heroes .
Even time travelers don't like to go that many time zones away, what with the spaceship lag.
I would also point out that this comic book is the first time I've ever seen men line up for the restroom.
Consider this: Kyle Rayner became Green Lantern because he stepped out into an alley to pee.
I bet he doesn't want that in his Secret Origins issue.
Insert your own "powerless against the color yellow" joke here.
The Savage Hawkman : Carter Hall is on the wing; his Hawkman battle armor reappears in time for him to do some serious damage to a morphing alien warrior (page 16).
The Woman in the Red Hood watches in the background.
Is this comic saying that the best view of Hawkman is from the rear?
In a line of comics featuring half-dressed Catwoman, naked-in-bed Wonder Woman and bikinied Starfire, why not?
The DCU needs beefcake, too.
Superman : AIIEEEEE!
Red-Hooded Woman is nine feet tall!
She's blown out of proportion at the dinner for the demolition of the old Daily Planet building and the opening of the new one (page 3, panel 2).
You woulda thought Lex Luthor would have taken the old Planet globe and made a Kryptonite-lined Hamster Ball of Death out of it, wouldn't you?
Teen Titans : Fake police cop is heavily caffeinated as he pulls over Cassie "Don't Call Me Wonder Girl" Sandsmark, while White -Hooded Woman lurks yet again in the woods (page 12, panel 1).
I'm guessing this is just a coloring mistake, or a lighting effect, or maybe that's latter-day Raven and I'm completely mistaken.
Another oddity: Who's this ultra-tall, top-hatted black-clad man in the background at the beginning of Teen Titans?
That's just too distinct a figure to be just set dressing.
Is it the Shade from Starman ?
The Phantom Stranger with a new chapeau?
A cross-dressing Zatanna?
A goth version of the Mad Mod?
Voodoo : Finally, and thankfully, RHW is not masquerading as a stripper at the Voodoo Lounge.
You'll find her outside watching the aftermath of Fallon's fistfight with a bunch of young thugs (page 8, panel 6).
There's other hooded women in the new DCU; don't mistake them for the one we've been looking at.
Below: Rama from Deadman (top), Batgirl's enemy Mirror (bottom left), and the Brotherhood of Evil's Phobia in Blue Beetle (bottom right).
Accept no substitutes for the real Red-Hooded Woman.
Most of what we know is speculation and guesswork.
We know she's watching the DC Universe.
She watches in the past, watches in the future, and watches right now.
She watches, mostly on Earth, but off-world as well.
She can almost certainly travel in time and is undetectable to humans and tech.
She needed Barry Allen's power to help her knit the DC, Vertigo superhero, and Wildstorm universes together, and now she's keeping watch over the result.
But who is she?
Could she be the Time Trapper, longtime nemesis of the Legion of Super-Heroes?
Is she a new Harbinger, foretelling a brand-new Crisis on 52 Earths?
Could she be the Marvel Universe's new Crimson Cowl, heralding a return to the great DC/Marvel crossover events?
Maybe she's Red Riding Hood from Vertigo's popular Fables , leading up to the first team-up of Batman and Jack of Fables?
(A: No.)
The New DC Universe is still uncharted territory.
Things we've taken for granted in a fictional universe that's almost 74 years old ( Wonder Woman's origin , Superman's pal, Flash's wife) have been changed dramatically.
We've seen this multiverse break apart and change through several crises, reboots both hard and soft, and the too-soon abandoned concept of Hypertime.
Maybe the clue is in that "almost 74 years."
2013 will mark the 75th anniversary of Superman's debut in 1938, and I bet DC has a big crossover event planned for that.
But whenever and wherever the Red-Hooded Woman's story is told, I'm eager to be along for the ride.
We're all pioneers in the New DCU, and the thrill is in the ride of discovery on the way.
Executive summary This paper reviews the empirical literature on the employment effects of increases in the minimum wage.
It organizes the most prominent studies in this literature by their use of two different empirical approaches: studies that match labor markets experiencing a minimum-wage increase with an appropriate comparison labor market, and studies that do not.
A review of this literature suggests that: The studies that compare labor markets experiencing a minimum-wage increase with a carefully chosen comparison labor market tend to find that minimum-wage increases have little or no effect on employment.
The studies that do not match labor markets experiencing a minimum-wage increase with a comparison labor market tend to find that minimum-wage increases reduce employment.
A better understanding of which approach is more rigorous is required to make reliable inferences about the effects of the minimum wage.
This paper argues that: Labor market policy analysts strongly prefer studies that match “treatment” with “comparison” cases in a defensible way over studies that simply include controls and fixed effects in a regression model.
The studies using the most rigorous research designs generally find that minimum-wage increases have little or no effect on employment.
Application of these findings to any particular minimum-wage proposal requires careful consideration of whether the proposal is similar to other minimum-wage policies that have been studied.
If a proposal occurs under dramatically different circumstances, the empirical literature on the minimum wage should be invoked with caution.
Introduction President Harry Truman famously joked that he wanted to hire a one-armed economist because all of his staff economists would resort to “on the one hand… but on the other hand…” formulations when giving policy advice.
Truman just wanted a straight answer.
Today, policymakers and the public also seem to want a one-armed economist in discussions of the minimum wage.
Minimum-wage policy in the United States is made at the federal, state, and local level.
The federal government imposes a minimum wage nationally (currently $7.25 an hour for most workers) that Congress can raise.
Many states and even local governments set minimum wages that are higher than the federal minimum.
One group of well-regarded economists contends that increases in the minimum wage reduce employment by raising labor costs, while another group insists the evidence shows that minimum-wage increases do not reduce employment, likely due to factors such as reduced turnover, increased productivity, and small price increases.
Responsible economists understandably mention both strands of the literature.
Nevertheless, it would be helpful if there were some way to determine which side has the more persuasive case, something a little closer to Truman’s one-armed economist.
There are many criteria that could be used to make sense of the empirical literature on the employment effects of the minimum wage.
This report focuses on the distinction between studies that use what I will refer to as “matched comparison groups” to estimate these effects, and those that do not.
The term “matching” is used here in a relatively broad way, to describe a family of methods that identify a comparison group as an appropriate match for a treatment group, thus mimicking a randomized experiment.
A matching design is strongly preferred by economists working on a variety of applications because it is often the closest study design to randomized experiments available.
Whether or not a study uses matching is a broad criterion, but an important one for discriminating between studies and clarifying who provides more persuasive evidence in the minimum-wage debate.
The first section of this report reviews the two major approaches to studying the minimum wage—studies with and without matched comparison cases—and compares the major findings from these two approaches.
The second section makes an argument for preferring studies that use matching over studies that do not.
The report concludes with a discussion of the implications of this research for policy.

She's wisely gone by the time Jonah Hex starts a barroom brawl a few minutes later.

Let's hope she paid up her tab before leaving.

Aquaman : Here's the scene that happens concurrently with three other key moments in the DCNu (page 12, panel 4).

A few seconds and two panels later Aquaman says "I don't talk to fish," but she's looking in completely the opposite direction.

One of the themes of the new series is the perception the general public has of Aquaman.

Is she watching the reactions of the civilians rather than Aquaman?

Is that an important moment?

Did she order the unlimited crab legs for $17.99?

Batman: The Dark Knight marks yet another trip to Gotham City -- she's been here many more times than any place on Earth-DC, including Metropolis.

You'll find her standing just inside the gates... the open gates of Arkham Asylum (page 14, top panel).

Is it any wonder there's an Arkham break-out twice in four Batman #1 books?

Geez, guys, invest in some Master Locks.

Blackhawks : Red-Hooded Woman looks right at us...or more probably, the man taking a photo of the departing Blackhawks (page 8, panel 5).

She probably doesn't show up on the iPhone anyway (or the LexPhone or WaynePhone either).

Flash : Blink and you'll miss her: in Central City, watching Barry Allen's girlfriend (and co-worker... bad idea, Barry) Patty Spivot shepherd Barry away from the flirtations of Iris Allen (page 12, final panel).

It occurs to me: if there's no Barry/Iris romance and marriage, then where did Kid Flash in Teen Titans come from?

The Fury of Firestorm, The Nuclear Men gives us not only the longest title in today's DC publishing plan but multiple Firestorms.

R.H.W.

is there at a critical and historical moment: the birth of Firestorms Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch (page 18, panel 2).

Now that's the way to please fans of both iterations of the character.

(Psst, DC: Batgirl, Inc .

Everybody's happy.

Call me!)

Oh, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the name of Walton Mills High's football team: The Wikings.

Green Lanterns: New Guardians : Kyle Rayner: PWNED!

I bet even R.H.W.

is giggling at that (page 15, middle bottom panel).

And here's another book with substantial scenes taking place in outer space, but she appears on Earth, leaving her sole journey off planet in Legion of Super-Heroes .

Even time travelers don't like to go that many time zones away, what with the spaceship lag.

I would also point out that this comic book is the first time I've ever seen men line up for the restroom.

Consider this: Kyle Rayner became Green Lantern because he stepped out into an alley to pee.

I bet he doesn't want that in his Secret Origins issue.

Insert your own "powerless against the color yellow" joke here.

The Savage Hawkman : Carter Hall is on the wing; his Hawkman battle armor reappears in time for him to do some serious damage to a morphing alien warrior (page 16).

The Woman in the Red Hood watches in the background.

Is this comic saying that the best view of Hawkman is from the rear?

In a line of comics featuring half-dressed Catwoman, naked-in-bed Wonder Woman and bikinied Starfire, why not?

The DCU needs beefcake, too.

Superman : AIIEEEEE!

Red-Hooded Woman is nine feet tall!

She's blown out of proportion at the dinner for the demolition of the old Daily Planet building and the opening of the new one (page 3, panel 2).

You woulda thought Lex Luthor would have taken the old Planet globe and made a Kryptonite-lined Hamster Ball of Death out of it, wouldn't you?

Teen Titans : Fake police cop is heavily caffeinated as he pulls over Cassie "Don't Call Me Wonder Girl" Sandsmark, while White -Hooded Woman lurks yet again in the woods (page 12, panel 1).

I'm guessing this is just a coloring mistake, or a lighting effect, or maybe that's latter-day Raven and I'm completely mistaken.

Another oddity: Who's this ultra-tall, top-hatted black-clad man in the background at the beginning of Teen Titans?

That's just too distinct a figure to be just set dressing.

Is it the Shade from Starman ?

The Phantom Stranger with a new chapeau?

A cross-dressing Zatanna?

A goth version of the Mad Mod?

Voodoo : Finally, and thankfully, RHW is not masquerading as a stripper at the Voodoo Lounge.

You'll find her outside watching the aftermath of Fallon's fistfight with a bunch of young thugs (page 8, panel 6).

There's other hooded women in the new DCU; don't mistake them for the one we've been looking at.

Below: Rama from Deadman (top), Batgirl's enemy Mirror (bottom left), and the Brotherhood of Evil's Phobia in Blue Beetle (bottom right).

Accept no substitutes for the real Red-Hooded Woman.

Most of what we know is speculation and guesswork.

We know she's watching the DC Universe.

She watches in the past, watches in the future, and watches right now.

She watches, mostly on Earth, but off-world as well.

She can almost certainly travel in time and is undetectable to humans and tech.

She needed Barry Allen's power to help her knit the DC, Vertigo superhero, and Wildstorm universes together, and now she's keeping watch over the result.

But who is she?

Could she be the Time Trapper, longtime nemesis of the Legion of Super-Heroes?

Is she a new Harbinger, foretelling a brand-new Crisis on 52 Earths?

Could she be the Marvel Universe's new Crimson Cowl, heralding a return to the great DC/Marvel crossover events?

Maybe she's Red Riding Hood from Vertigo's popular Fables , leading up to the first team-up of Batman and Jack of Fables?

(A: No.)

The New DC Universe is still uncharted territory.

Things we've taken for granted in a fictional universe that's almost 74 years old ( Wonder Woman's origin , Superman's pal, Flash's wife) have been changed dramatically.

We've seen this multiverse break apart and change through several crises, reboots both hard and soft, and the too-soon abandoned concept of Hypertime.

Maybe the clue is in that "almost 74 years."

2013 will mark the 75th anniversary of Superman's debut in 1938, and I bet DC has a big crossover event planned for that.

But whenever and wherever the Red-Hooded Woman's story is told, I'm eager to be along for the ride.

We're all pioneers in the New DCU, and the thrill is in the ride of discovery on the way.

Executive summary This paper reviews the empirical literature on the employment effects of increases in the minimum wage.

It organizes the most prominent studies in this literature by their use of two different empirical approaches: studies that match labor markets experiencing a minimum-wage increase with an appropriate comparison labor market, and studies that do not.

A review of this literature suggests that: The studies that compare labor markets experiencing a minimum-wage increase with a carefully chosen comparison labor market tend to find that minimum-wage increases have little or no effect on employment.

The studies that do not match labor markets experiencing a minimum-wage increase with a comparison labor market tend to find that minimum-wage increases reduce employment.

A better understanding of which approach is more rigorous is required to make reliable inferences about the effects of the minimum wage.

This paper argues that: Labor market policy analysts strongly prefer studies that match “treatment” with “comparison” cases in a defensible way over studies that simply include controls and fixed effects in a regression model.

The studies using the most rigorous research designs generally find that minimum-wage increases have little or no effect on employment.

Application of these findings to any particular minimum-wage proposal requires careful consideration of whether the proposal is similar to other minimum-wage policies that have been studied.

If a proposal occurs under dramatically different circumstances, the empirical literature on the minimum wage should be invoked with caution.

Introduction President Harry Truman famously joked that he wanted to hire a one-armed economist because all of his staff economists would resort to “on the one hand… but on the other hand…” formulations when giving policy advice.

Truman just wanted a straight answer.

Today, policymakers and the public also seem to want a one-armed economist in discussions of the minimum wage.

Minimum-wage policy in the United States is made at the federal, state, and local level.

The federal government imposes a minimum wage nationally (currently $7.25 an hour for most workers) that Congress can raise.

Many states and even local governments set minimum wages that are higher than the federal minimum.

One group of well-regarded economists contends that increases in the minimum wage reduce employment by raising labor costs, while another group insists the evidence shows that minimum-wage increases do not reduce employment, likely due to factors such as reduced turnover, increased productivity, and small price increases.

Responsible economists understandably mention both strands of the literature.

Nevertheless, it would be helpful if there were some way to determine which side has the more persuasive case, something a little closer to Truman’s one-armed economist.

There are many criteria that could be used to make sense of the empirical literature on the employment effects of the minimum wage.

This report focuses on the distinction between studies that use what I will refer to as “matched comparison groups” to estimate these effects, and those that do not.

The term “matching” is used here in a relatively broad way, to describe a family of methods that identify a comparison group as an appropriate match for a treatment group, thus mimicking a randomized experiment.

A matching design is strongly preferred by economists working on a variety of applications because it is often the closest study design to randomized experiments available.

Whether or not a study uses matching is a broad criterion, but an important one for discriminating between studies and clarifying who provides more persuasive evidence in the minimum-wage debate.

The first section of this report reviews the two major approaches to studying the minimum wage—studies with and without matched comparison cases—and compares the major findings from these two approaches.

The second section makes an argument for preferring studies that use matching over studies that do not.

The report concludes with a discussion of the implications of this research for policy.