El abandono de Detroit. Lifespan inequality: The rich are living longer than the poor. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images On average, Americans live longer if they are rich than if they are poor. As the income gap in the U.S. has widened over the past 30 years, so too has the “longevity gap,” as Annie Lowrey puts it in a New York Times article published over the weekend. Here’s the money stat: Once they reach age 65, men who are in the top half of earners live about six years longer today than they did in the 1970s. Measles Is Spreading In Our Largest Cities Because People Aren't Vaccinating Their Kids. By Tara Culp-Ressler "Measles Is Spreading In Our Largest Cities Because People Aren’t Vaccinating Their Kids" CREDIT: Shutterstock New York City is currently grappling with a measles outbreak.
Health officials have identified 16 cases of the highly contagious infectious disease, resulting in at least six hospitalizations, and are now warning unvaccinated individuals that they need to get their shots. And New York isn’t the only place where measles — which was once so rare that it was virtually eradicated in the U.S. back in 2000 — is cropping up again. What Does the PISA Report Tell Us About U.S. Education? Wealth Inequality in America. What Do Prisoners Want? I'll Give You A Hint: Every American Child Gets It For Free. This Is The Most Depressing Version Of Google Maps I’ve Ever Seen. Colder colors mean wealthier neighborhoods; warmer colors mean poorer ones.
Whoever thought segregation could be this hypnotic, am I right? Here are some cities (US only): Los Angeles, California: Click image to Zoom. I’ll Puke If One More Politician Swears The Children Are The Future, And This Infographic Is Why. Los estadounidenses creen que la situación del país solo empeorará hasta el año 2050. La encuesta, publicada por la agencia AP, menciona los mayores problemas en los que debería fijarse el Gobierno del país, según los encuestados.
Sin embargo, los autores admiten que independientemente de las cuestiones específicas, los estadounidenses expresan muy poca confianza en que el Gobierno federal pueda lograr progresos reales. Two Homeless People Freeze To Death Just Miles From The White House. By Scott Keyes "Two Homeless People Freeze To Death Just Miles From The White House" A homeless man rests on a bench in Washington, D.C.
CREDIT: Shawn Davis Just a couple miles from where lawmakers set the course on everything from taxes to the availability of housing vouchers for low-income Americans, two homeless people were found dead Wednesday morning, with hypothermia being cited as the likely cause. New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage. Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health.
That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002. The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
“The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors, and baseline health,” said lead author Andrew Wilper, M.D., who currently teaches at the University of Washington School of Medicine. No, Marriage Is Not A Good Way To Fight Poverty. By Bryce Covert on January 9, 2014 at 10:00 am "No, Marriage Is Not A Good Way To Fight Poverty" In a speech marking the 50-year anniversary of the War on Poverty meant to offer up his ideas on how to address the problem today, Sen.
La industria farmacéutica de EE.UU. se enriquece a costa de jubilados e inválidos. Según revela la organización Asistencia Médica para América (HCAN por sus siglas en inglés), Medicare tiene prohibido comprar por su propia cuenta los medicamentos, razón por la que las compañías farmacéuticas les ofrecen medicamentos a un precio elevado.
"No hay nada malo en que una compañía haga beneficios, es lo que se supone que tiene que hacer. INFOGRAPHIC: How Could This Happen To 28% Of Kids On Our Watch? Sicko (PELÍCULA COMPLETA) Castellano. Blancos de tiro con embarazadas, "programa para insensibilizar a policías en EE.UU." T.F.
Stern, un ex policía de Houston, cree que las imágenes fabricadas por una empresa proveedora de las fuerzas del orden público, son producto de una “mente enferma” con la intención de alimentar la falta de respeto hacia la humanidad entre a los policías o “matones” del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional. I Never Would Have Guessed Where A Quarter Of The World's Prison Population Is.
Here in the U.S., we seem to treat prison as the answer to every issue.
Drugs? Violence? Some prison time ought to fix that, right? But seriously, maybe it's time we stop using lockup as a stopgap and try addressing the real problems with our justice system that lead to this type of craziness. Click image to Zoom Click image to Zoom By the way, the third statistic is from 2010.