Demographics: Oregon’s population shrinks
Oregon’s population dropped in 2022 for the first time in decades, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The agency figures Oregon lost about 16,000 residents in the…
Demographics, Automation: McDonald’s adds more automation to new restaurant form factor concept
The fast-food giant is trying an idea that Starbucks has already been successful with. Source: McDonald’s Launches a Whole New Kind of Restaurant – TheStreet As previously stated here, the…
Demographics, Business, Automation: “Krispy Kreme Outlines Plans to Automate Doughnut Production”
This is how businesses will address the long-term labor shortage: The doughnut maker plans to save $2 million annually by reducing manual labor in some of its shops, its finance…
International: How Global Are We? More than you may have thought!
In the U.S., and most of the world, our societies are amazingly global, with widespread travel and trade between countries, and immigration of workers (especially) between countries. Here I summarize…
Public health: CDC says unintended consequence of lockdowns led to increase in Strep A, flu and RSV
CDC now thinks lockdowns and ineffective NPIs are the cause of today’s rise in Step A, flu and RSV cases (which started early this season but appear to have peaked…
EVs, Government: They cannot deliver our mail but at least they can spend a lot on EVs!
The U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday that it intends to purchase at least 66,000 electric delivery vehicles as part of a push to transform its delivery fleet. Source: Postal Service…
Demographics, International: Indians taking on many leadership roles in U.S. businesses
India has 5 times more people in the critical 20-29 age bracket. Stated another way, the top 20% of the young Indian cohort is the same size as that entire…
Business, Economy: Government benefits programs exceed median income in several states
In 14 states, unemployment benefits and ACA subsidies for a family of four with two people not working amounts to an annualized equivalent of $80,000 a year in wages and…
More good news: life expectancy up, poverty way down, literacy widespread
Am expecting this blog to be censored and thrown offline very soon. Passing along good news is forbidden. The estimated decline at the end is due to Covid pandemic.
Public health: Now it’s a “septa-demic”!
When “triple demic” and “tri-demic” were not scary enough! According to Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine, there are seven respiratory viruses infecting people in large numbers this…