By now, the anticipated and now well documented consequences of lockdowns for children is well known: massive learning loss; increased mental health issues, including suicides; malnutrition due to increased poverty. The list goes on and all were predicted. The Sydney Morning Herald has identified another to add resulting from Australia’s extensive lockdowns. Per the headline: […]
UK spike in non-COVID deaths a sign of things to come in other countries that locked down hard?
A startling article out of the UK reports that, entirely unrelated to COVID, England and Wales are experiencing 1,000 excess deaths a week is cause for alarm in countries that also enforced strict lock-downs. Concerns were raised as early as mid-2020 that locking down would result in precisely what appears to be happening. The piece, […]
What grocery store cartel?
<some comments of mine from an email discussion with colleagues> I must admit I’m pretty puzzled by suggestions there’s a grocery store cartel in the US or by questions about whether there should be a national grocery store chain. By all appearances, the grocery store business is highly competitive, there are few barriers to entry […]
Women more empowered to pursue career aspirations in developed countries
Fascinating study across 80 countries that both confirms a finding from many previous studies (more boys than girls aspire to a things-oriented or STEM occupation and more girls than boys to a people-oriented occupation) and has an important counterintuitive finding: Women’s empowerment is associated with relatively high levels of national wealth and this wealth allows […]
Virtual schooling led to dramatic learning loss
New data from Texas shows that regardless of economic status or race, enormous numbers of students who learned virtually for the majority of the past school year experienced a dramatic learning loss. This learning loss was most pronounced for Black and Hispanic students. This outcome is tragic given that schools that reopened for in-person instruction […]
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