Media failure: The Happiest Country Nonsense
This week I’ve seen many items about “This is why Finland is the world’s happiest country” – and 100% of these stories are wrong. Not one reporter – not one…
Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
This week I’ve seen many items about “This is why Finland is the world’s happiest country” – and 100% of these stories are wrong. Not one reporter – not one…
Every year a "World Happiness Index", which measures no one's actual happiness, is published. And every year a Nordic country is crowned and the media makes fools of themselves.
With the declining fertility rate, a majority of U.S. population growth is now due to immigration. Similarly, newly created jobs are going to immigrants.
Oxfam count emission made by companies in which the top 1% have investments, and says all the emissions from those companies are emitted by the top 1%. Brilliant.
CDC is testing volunteer international travelers at some airports for up to 30 possible diseases.
No surprise - with a low fertility rate, industry and academics are partnering to push for a huge expansion of immigration visas to the U.S.
The % of the U.S. population that is foreign born is approaching 1 in 5 adults, but within some work fields, it is far higher.
With a low fertility rate, economists seek more immigration as a solution - but are there enough immigrants to meet everyone's needs?
Half of all STEM grad degrees in the U.S. go to foreign students, a majority of which will then work in the U.S.
Economists, as usual, propose more immigration to address labor issues in the U.S. Problem is that 75% of world's countries have declining populations.