Media: Historical Home Prices and home sizes
Fox News publishes a fake news article comparing home prices over time, without mentioning homes are 3x larger than in 1950.
Demographics, Education: 1 in 3 companies are removing college degree requirements for jobs
The use of a college degree to filter out large numbers of job applicants is no longer necessary.
Demographics: The global population collapse
The world's population could collapse by the end of the century, contrary to official projections.
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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…
Demographics: Women are 24% of the STEM workforce
Now do nursing, K-12 education and veterinary medicine.
Economy: “Old people” (age 60+) must die so we get lower home prices
To make more homes available, old people need ot disappear, says this article. Weird.
Demographics: Gen X and Baby Boom taught to seek independence
Per this article, Gen X and Gen Baby Boom were taught to seek independence, and not rely on parents.
Demographics: Generation labels
More on why the generation labels are basically meaningless - but good for creating divisiveness.
Demographics: Births in Japan reach record low
Births in Japan fall to a record low as fewer couples marry Reminder: 75% of the world’s population lives in countries whose population is shrinking. Some demographers think peak world…
Bias against women in male dominated jobs has decreased, but bias against men in female dominated jobs remains
Study finds that discrimination against females in male dominated jobs has mostly ended or reversed, but that discrimination against males in female dominated jobs remains.
Demographics: Hungary to abolish lifetime income taxes for women having >= 4 kids
Hungary to abolish income taxes for life, for women having 4 or more kids, and will add other subsidies. Hungary's fertility rate is 1.6.
Demographics: Britain’s Fertility Rate drops to 1.49
Below 2.1 and a population is shrinking (not counting effects of immigration).
Education: Biggest factor in post grad employment is choice of degree and internships
About half of college grads now work in jobs that only require a high school diploma.
Demographics: “Boomers are now in a ‘power position’ at work, experts say” – but not really
The “Baby Boom”, an arbitrary classification by the Pew Research Center, defines the Baby Boom as those born in 1946 through 1964. Those born in 1959 are turning 65 in…