What's causing the so-called 'labor shortage'? Recent labor market data has sowed confusion for some over where workers have gone. The unemployment rate as of last month remains at an elevated 4.8%, still above the pre-pandemic 3.5% seen in February 2020. The number of job openings, h...
Allows for correction of income inequality:Capitalism is known for generating income inequality through a concentration of capital. A mixed economic system can correct such a phenomenon by taxing and redistributing wealth to the households located at the bottom of the income distribution. Disadvantages ...
A“strongman” (or woman) is somebody who rules a country by undermining and weakening rules, regulations, constitutional mandates and restrictions. And often that’s done very stealthily. Before, we had the old kind of strongman, the Mobutus of the world, the Francos, the Hitlers. And then...
In recent decades there has been a global rise in consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to the detriment of population health and the environment. Large corporations that have focused heavily on low-cost manufacturing and extensive marketing of UPF
What factors are causing your county poverty rate to differ from (or equal) the national poverty rate? What are four major differences between the economies of Latin America and those of Africa? What are some of the common characteristics of developing countries? What is the source of the ...
Fun fact: Colombia is the thirdrichestcountry in South America by GDP! Also fun fact: Colombia has the third worstincome inequalityin South America! Just like in the United States you hear of a divide between the prosperous, educated, productive coastal cities vs. the neglected flyover country...
What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures? https://e360.yale.edu/features/gavin-schmidt-interview Water is an integral part of the global climate agenda https://wmo.int/media/news/water-integral-part-of-global-climate-agenda Heat stress and the labour force https://www.nature....
Maslow’s Hammer, otherwise known as the law of the instrument or the Einstellung effect, is a cognitive bias causing an over-reliance on a familiar tool. This can be expressed as the tendency to overuse a known tool (perhaps a hammer) to solve issues that might require a different tool....
But perhaps, according to Coyle, we should look beyond the numeric metrics used in the past. The pandemic has shone a light onuneven distributions of unpaid workhappening in the home. Andthe climate crisisis causing increasingly frequent wildfires, droughts, andother unpredictable climate events, ...
Online medical sites refer to various research studies saying that insufficient intake of folic acid – a common B vitamin – in the mother’s diet is a key factor in causing spina bifida and other neural tube defects. Prenatal vitamins that are prescribed for the pregnant mother typically conta...