Our first entry was about demographics, which is a challenge in China (as well as in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere). Today, let’s look at what China can teach us about inequality, and we’ll start with this chart from the folks at Oxford who run Our World in Data. As you ca...
“It was extremely disappointing to hear that some school districts were using information from the Department of Education as an excuse not to educate kids. This is a time for creativity and an opportunity to pursue as much flexibility as possible so that learning continues. It is a time for...
as a source of support in old age. Employment in large-scale industries atlow wagesmeant that few could afford to save for their old age; indeed, most people worked until they no longer could, because of disability, old age, or both. Thus industrialization created a growing class of ...
Does it challenge your consumerism? Does it make you feel guilty, confused, uncertain? That’s okay. I repeat, that’s okay. Everyone I know here, in the US, myself, my family, we all face these issues (and disagree, even at my own kitchen table!). Answer the question with ...
Answer and Explanation: Generalized Anxiety: Generalized anxiety disorder is marked by extra worry and fear of the future related to many of life's stressors that everyone...
In particular, there are two major research questions as follows: 1.1.1 How and why, in today’s Hong Kong, the poorer become the sicker, and vice versa? 1.1.2 What are the potential policy interventions that may disrupt the poverty-health vicious cycle in the context of Hong Kong?
Further, an important challenge to the epidemiological modeling community would be brought sharply into focus, as the literature on co-infection is very sparse and in great need of sustained development. Taking a health systems approach Addressing VBDs into the future demands that we take a ...
We need to challenge our propensity towards anxiety, believing that life is out to get us. We need to trust again in the God of harvest time, the providing abundant force in the universe. The future, as Daniel O’Leary inPassion for the Possibletells us: “is a mother waiting for us ...
Blue-collar whites were much more likely than nonwhites to view the poor as a class set apart from the rest of society – trapped in poverty as a more or less permanent condition. Minority Americans, particularly blacks, tended to say that “for most poor people, poverty is a temporary ...
I reported in the story that poverty will begin rising as these temporary aid measures expire. But the very fact that poverty has fallen dramatically this year is an important accomplishment—and one worth noting—because we are enduring an extraordinary economic challenge. I sense that you feel ...