If you needed long-term care, could you afford it? For many Americans, especially those with a middle-class income and little savings, the answer to that question is absolutely not. Nursing homes charge somewhere around US$100,000 a year, while frequent visits from a paid caregiver may set you back more than $5,000 a month. With long-term care so expensive for growing numbers of older Americans, and the federal government doing little to make it accessible, some states are taking matters into their own hands to find better ways to cover costs. Washington state has gone the furthest so...… If you needed long-term care, could you afford it? For many Americans, especially those with a middle-class income and little savings, the answer to that question is absolutely not. Nursing homes charge somewhere around US$100,000 a year, while frequent visits from a paid caregiver may set you back more than $5,000 a month. With long-term care so expensive for growing numbers of older Americans, and the federal government doing little to make it accessible, some states are taking matters into their own hands to find better ways to cover costs. Washington state has gone the furthest so...WW…

Identifying with an activity is different from actually doing it.   For example, 49% of Americans play video games, but only 10% identify as gamers. According to a recent survey we conducted, there’s also a small gap between reading activity and identity for younger readers: 61% of Generation Z and millennials have read a print book, e-book or audiobook in the past 12 months, but only 57% identify as readers. And yet there was a puzzling aspect of our results: The 43% of Gen Z and millennials who didn’t identify as readers actually said they read more print books per month than Gen...…Identifying with an activity is different from actually doing it.   For example, 49% of Americans play video games, but only 10% identify as gamers. According to a recent survey we conducted, there’s also a small gap between reading activity and identity for younger readers: 61% of Generation Z and millennials have read a print book, e-book or audiobook in the past 12 months, but only 57% identify as readers. And yet there was a puzzling aspect of our results: The 43% of Gen Z and millennials who didn’t identify as readers actually said they read more print books per month than Gen...WW…

Yes, Smith has signed to play Twenty 20 (T20) cricket for the Washington Freedom, which happens to be coached by former Australian great Ricky Ponting. Washington is one of six teams in Major League Cricket (MLC), which began in 2023. The Freedom finished third in the inaugural season, won by New York. The 2024 season will begin in July before the US co-hosts the T20 World Cup with the West Indies. A number of established cricket stars have already played in the US league, including Quinton de Kock of South Africa, Nicholas Pooran from the West Indies, Trent Boult from New Zealand and...…Yes, Smith has signed to play Twenty 20 (T20) cricket for the Washington Freedom, which happens to be coached by former Australian great Ricky Ponting. Washington is one of six teams in Major League Cricket (MLC), which began in 2023. The Freedom finished third in the inaugural season, won by New York. The 2024 season will begin in July before the US co-hosts the T20 World Cup with the West Indies. A number of established cricket stars have already played in the US league, including Quinton de Kock of South Africa, Nicholas Pooran from the West Indies, Trent Boult from New Zealand and...WW…

Support Scroll.inYour support is crucial: India needs independent media and independent media needs you.Become a MemberMany international students come to Australia with the hope of staying permanently.But our latest report, Graduates in limbo: International student visa pathways after graduation, shows that the rights Australia grants international students to stay and work here after they graduate are too generous, offering many false hope.Australia offers graduating students much longer temporary visas than our main competitors for international students, such as Canada, the UK and the...…Support Scroll.inYour support is crucial: India needs independent media and independent media needs you.Become a MemberMany international students come to Australia with the hope of staying permanently.But our latest report, Graduates in limbo: International student visa pathways after graduation, shows that the rights Australia grants international students to stay and work here after they graduate are too generous, offering many false hope.Australia offers graduating students much longer temporary visas than our main competitors for international students, such as Canada, the UK and the...WW…

Home Page Health ·PandemicThe pandemic hit hard, to say the least.APU GOMES/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.People in the U.S. are dying at higher rates than in other similar high-income countries, and that difference is only growing. That’s the key finding of a new study that I published in the journal PLOS One.In 2021, more than 892,000 of the 3,456,000 deaths the U.S. experienced, or about 1 in 4, were “excess deaths.” In 2019, that number was 483,000 deaths, or nearly 1 in 6. That represents an 84.9% increase in excess deaths in the...…Home Page Health ·PandemicThe pandemic hit hard, to say the least.APU GOMES/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.People in the U.S. are dying at higher rates than in other similar high-income countries, and that difference is only growing. That’s the key finding of a new study that I published in the journal PLOS One.In 2021, more than 892,000 of the 3,456,000 deaths the U.S. experienced, or about 1 in 4, were “excess deaths.” In 2019, that number was 483,000 deaths, or nearly 1 in 6. That represents an 84.9% increase in excess deaths in the...WW…

Podríamos pensar que el aborto es un fenómeno especialmente moderno, pero hay muchas pruebas que sugieren que ha estado presente en la sociedad durante miles de años. Aunque su historia se cuenta a menudo desde una perspectiva legal, la existencia del aborto ha tenido lugar independientemente de las leyes que lo acompañasen.La necesidad de controlar la fertilidad antes o después del sexo existe desde hace tanto tiempo como el embarazo. El Papiro Ebers del Antiguo Egipto se considera a menudo una de las primeras pruebas escritas sobre la práctica del aborto.El texto, que data de 1600 a. e....…Podríamos pensar que el aborto es un fenómeno especialmente moderno, pero hay muchas pruebas que sugieren que ha estado presente en la sociedad durante miles de años. Aunque su historia se cuenta a menudo desde una perspectiva legal, la existencia del aborto ha tenido lugar independientemente de las leyes que lo acompañasen.La necesidad de controlar la fertilidad antes o después del sexo existe desde hace tanto tiempo como el embarazo. El Papiro Ebers del Antiguo Egipto se considera a menudo una de las primeras pruebas escritas sobre la práctica del aborto.El texto, que data de 1600 a. e....WW…

Nestled between Lancashire’s stand-out beauty, the Forest of Bowland, and the breathtaking vistas of the Yorkshire Dales, the serene, postcard-perfect village of Clapham seems far removed from the COVID-19 pandemic. But when the British government announced a nationwide lockdown in mid-March, Clapham went on high alert.Local residents formed what they dubbed “Clapham COBRA," a volunteer emergency response initiative that aimed to mitigate the negative effects of isolation by sharing information, delivering supplies, and checking in on one another. Like many rural villages, Clapham is fairly...…Nestled between Lancashire’s stand-out beauty, the Forest of Bowland, and the breathtaking vistas of the Yorkshire Dales, the serene, postcard-perfect village of Clapham seems far removed from the COVID-19 pandemic. But when the British government announced a nationwide lockdown in mid-March, Clapham went on high alert.Local residents formed what they dubbed “Clapham COBRA," a volunteer emergency response initiative that aimed to mitigate the negative effects of isolation by sharing information, delivering supplies, and checking in on one another. Like many rural villages, Clapham is fairly...WW…

JUMPING THE GUN?Release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida is imminent. But a team of scientists believe more studies are needed first, encouraging a public registry for GM organisms.his article originally appeared on .This summer, for the first time, genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the U.S. On May 1, 2020, the company Oxitec received an experimental use permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to release millions of GM mosquitoes (labeled by Oxitec as OX5034) every week over the next two years in Florida and Texas. Females of this mosquito...…JUMPING THE GUN?Release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida is imminent. But a team of scientists believe more studies are needed first, encouraging a public registry for GM organisms.his article originally appeared on .This summer, for the first time, genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the U.S. On May 1, 2020, the company Oxitec received an experimental use permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to release millions of GM mosquitoes (labeled by Oxitec as OX5034) every week over the next two years in Florida and Texas. Females of this mosquito...WW…

Derek W. Black, Public schools have faced three distinct challenges since the coronavirus pandemic began—scrambling to make sure that low-income children don’t go hungry, teaching students remotely who lack internet access and bracing for dramatically smaller budgets.Congress tried to help in the $2 trillion economic relief package known as the , by designating $13.5 billion for public schools. The money was supposed to be distributed to school districts based on the number of low-income students they enroll. A new directive from the U.S. Department of Education, however, tells districts to...…Derek W. Black, Public schools have faced three distinct challenges since the coronavirus pandemic began—scrambling to make sure that low-income children don’t go hungry, teaching students remotely who lack internet access and bracing for dramatically smaller budgets.Congress tried to help in the $2 trillion economic relief package known as the , by designating $13.5 billion for public schools. The money was supposed to be distributed to school districts based on the number of low-income students they enroll. A new directive from the U.S. Department of Education, however, tells districts to...WW…

(The Conversation) — A stained-glass window, donated in 1877 to a church in Rhode Island, shows Jesus as a dark-skinned man. Most Western depictions portrayed him as a European, with light skin and sometimes even with blue eyes. A Black Jesus at this time was unknown. Now in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the window was made by the studio of Henry Sharp, a prominent 19th-century American stained-glassmaker who was popular with Episcopal congregations. Sharp’s first three windows for the now-closed St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Warren, Rhode Island, were of solitary white male figures,...…(The Conversation) — A stained-glass window, donated in 1877 to a church in Rhode Island, shows Jesus as a dark-skinned man. Most Western depictions portrayed him as a European, with light skin and sometimes even with blue eyes. A Black Jesus at this time was unknown. Now in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the window was made by the studio of Henry Sharp, a prominent 19th-century American stained-glassmaker who was popular with Episcopal congregations. Sharp’s first three windows for the now-closed St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Warren, Rhode Island, were of solitary white male figures,...WW…