The nonpartisan Senior Citizens League estimates the average Social Security benefit has lost 20% of its buying power since 2010. If the trend continues in 2025, seniors will continue to find their raises falling short of their needs. A COLA between 2.5% and 2.6% isn't just a ...
According to a Pew Research survey from 2023, 72 percent of Americans have seen an expansion of tipping expectations over the past five years. While some Americans are certainly frustrated about the trend, one recent policy proposal could make it worse. Former President Donald Trump has proposed ...
Some social media networks are already getting in on the trend. In fact, the number of mobile AR users is expected to hit1.4 billionby the end of the year. One ofMeta’s most recent AR featureswas rolled out to promote the Rugby World Cup in September 2023. Their platforms featured AR ...
A particular situation is the so-called double polarity, in which we observe an indicator presenting a positive polarity below a certain threshold and a negative polarity above it, or vice versa. Examples of such indicators are female-to-male ratios, that is, the ratio between the percentage o...
Narrow eligibility criteria means only a small percentage of the disabled population have access to LTCI. The criteria in most pilot studies exclude mild and moderate cognitive impairments. In contrast, the Japanese system provides support for those ≥65 years old based on need alone, including ...
Firstly, migrant workers can only be employed in the secondary labor market without labor security, which is below their psychological expectations. Thus, they face difficulty developing a sense of belonging to the city. In addition, there is discrimination against migrant workers in the city, ...
(In)security, Mobility and CreativityBeyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health TechnologiesBorders, (Im)mobility and the EverydayBuilding Healthy CommunitiesBuilding the Evidence Base for Innovative and Contextually Sensitive Programs to Prevent and Treat Child Abuse and Neglect and Reduce...
(22.1) increases the amount issued as a percentage of assets by 2.9 percentage points during the crisis. The crisis effect is substantial when compared to the average issuance of 3.4% of assets over the entire sample period and 3.1% (untabulated) of assets during the crisis months. Thus, ...
The industrial policy will balance development and security, promote the continuous transformation and upgradation of traditional industries and the cultivation and growth of strategic emerging industries to achieve a virtuous circle of "technology-industry-finance". In 2023, the banking sector will...
The largest percentage of consumers surveyed (31.6%) lived in cities with a population between 101,000 and 500,000. The average age of the respondents was 40 years. Nearly half of the respondents lived in multi-family buildings, and about 41.6% of the respondents lived in single-family house...