public schools have steadily increased the amount of time devoted to preparing for standardized tests. The focus on academic “skills and drills” has cut deeply into
A new survey has found that there are 13.61 million households that have a net worth of $1 million or more, not including the value of their primary residence. That’s more than 10% of households in the US. So the US is definitely the country with the most millionaires. 3. What perce...
American foreign aid (governmental and private) is very closely related to religion, and based on Christian values that all men and women are the children of God, therefore brothers and sisters; the US State Department issues an annual report on human rights and criticizes the human r...
New York State Minimum Wage Rates Research Summary. The average salary in the U.S. continues increasing every year and currently sits at a mean of $61,900 per year. However, what an individual earns fluctuates depending on multiple factors, including age, gender, education level, occupation, ...
“For Asian immigrants, the racial argument at the time was that ‘It didn’t matter whether one were born in the US or not, Asians as a race, are unassimilable. They are diametrically opposite from us Americans,’” Lee says.
Because science carries us toward an understanding of how the world i,rather than how we would wish it to b,its findings may not in all cases be immediately comprehensible or satisfying.It may take a little work to restructure our mindsets.Some of science is very simple.When it gets complic...
Today , the most common interracial pairing is one Hispanic spouse and one white spouse. This combination makes up 42% of interracial marriages today. Which state has the highest number of interracial newlyweds? Hawaii has the largest number of interracial newlyweds today. 42% of newlyweds in Hon...
America is also expected to join a global coalition funding the development of covid-19 tests, drugs and vaccines and their distribution to poorer countries. International co-operation is likely to work better than “America First”. The pandemic “won’t be over in the us if it’s not ove...
If not for Rose, the daughter Laura gave birth to when she was only nineteen, none of us would ever have heard of Laura Ingalls Wilder. 7. Women who give birth to their first child when they are teens do not necessarily end up having more children I am concerned about overpopulation, ...
The US Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott case, named for a slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom, has since been widely condemned. “The 14th Amendment was designed to overturn this decision and define citizenship once and for all, and it was based on birthright,” Rosen ...