Last December Pew Research reported that a majority of American adults no can no longer be classified as middle class, owing to widening inequality, declining industry, erosion of financial stability, and globalisation. The effect is general and includes all the big American urban centres as well as the South and rural areas that are normally …
The immigrants who went, especially from Pakistan, to Britain, and who have formed large communities in places like Bradford, have notoriously failed to integrate. Actually, it’s a bit more complex than that. The young women of Pakistani origin seem to have taken advantage of British freedoms to educate themselves and become medics or accountants. They …
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The US National Center for Health Statistics reports that health gaps between white and black people are finally closing, and people are living longer, although heart disease, cancer and obesity continue to loom large. Between 2004 and 2014, life expectancy increased by an extra 1.1 years for women and 1.4 years for men, according to …
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America’s civil asset forfeiture laws, another product of law enforcement’s failed war on drugs, originally designed to deprive suspected drug dealers of the spoils of their illicit trade — houses, cars, boats — now regularly deprive people unconnected to the war on drugs of their property, without due process of law and in violation of …
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Dementia incidence for over 65s has fallen drastically in UK men, a drop of 41 per cent. But the improvement has been much smaller among women: only a 2.5 per cent. This is according to an analysis of more than 10,000 over-65s in the UK spanning the past 20 years. The study found that, overall, …
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