There are 229 millionaires in Congress. The exact number is hard to determine since Congress members reveal their finances in ranges. But according to the Center for Responsive Politics, 43% of congress members had a net worth of over $1 million in 2018. That’s 43%, over seven times the...
In 2023 alone, despite a global economic downturn, China's exports of the tech-intensive green trio -- lithium-ion batteries, photovoltaic products, and new energy vehicles -- amounted to 1.06 trillion yuan (149 billion U.S. dollars), a robust increase of 29.9 percent year-on-year. China...
The "Make in India" initiative, proposed by the Modi government in 2014, aims to boost the manufacturing sector's contribution to India's economic growth from 16 percent in 2015 to 25 percent by 2022, which in reality dropped to 13 percent. This led to persistently high unemployment rates i...
The trends have been a long time coming. Between 1981 and 1997, detailed time-use studies showed that the time children spent at play declined by 2b percent. Since the adoption of sweeping education reforms in 2001, public schools have steadily increased the amount of time devoted to preparing...
Fifteen percent of the papers had captive wildlife as the host, mostly terrestrial mammals. Faeces were used as the biological sample in 50% of both the disease and non-disease papers. The second most used biological material was saliva and other body fluids (14%) (Figure 3; Table S2). ...
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How much economic mobility you’ve experienced—and how much you expect for your family—is another aspect to consider when you’re thinking about income class. In an article inThe Atlantic, “The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy,” Matthew Stewart argues that while we are quite con...
[01:57.84]Twenty-six percent say they are "not too happy." [02:02.44]The numbers come from a September 2023 study [02:07.40]by the Public Policy Institute of California. [02:12.16]The study also says Californians [02:...
It has become a grimly reliable annual ritual:every January the cost of travelling by train rises, imposing asignificant extra burden on those who have no option but to use therail network to get to work or otherwise .Thisyearsrise,an average of2.7percent,maybea fraction lower than last ...
But the sector as a whole is insulated by sweeping changes within the asset class and its investor base in the past decade. Improvements made since turn-of-the-century crises are easy to pinpoint - inflation-targeting central banks, floating currencies, and borrowing that is now 80 ...