Category: Race

Saturday Links

Aug 10, 2013

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mwkruse

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1. Phillip Swagel with a good piece on Inequality and Opportunity … I am not convinced, however, that the president's proposals are well matched to the problem he describes. Indeed, Mr. Obama is better at describing the outcomes he seeks than at putting forward a coherent set of policies to reach those outcomes. But I…
Saturday Links

Aug 3, 2013

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mwkruse

in Demography, Ecclesia, Generations, Health and Medicine, India, Links – Saturday, Race, Religion, Sociology, Technology (Energy), Trends: Social

1. Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity. 2. Blacks, Hispanics more optimistic than whites … After years of economic attitudes among whites, blacks and Hispanics following similar patterns, whites' confidence…
Saturday Links

Jul 27, 2013

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1. Mark Buchanan asks Is Economics a Science or a Religion? 2. Poverty has moved to the suburbs I don't think this should be seen as necessarily a bad thing. A few decades ago, the idea was to "warehouse" the poor in large urban complexes. There has been an intentional effort at dispersal through various…
Saturday Links

Jul 20, 2013

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1. Public Religion Research Institute: Survey | Do Americans Believe Capitalism and Government are Working?: Religious Left, Religious Right and the Future of the Economic Debate 2. Gallup reports Sub-Saharan Africa Is Wildly Optimistic About Its Future 3. U.S. could lead world oil production by 2017, study says Domestic shale oil production could shoot up…
Saturday Links

Jun 15, 2013

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1. More deaths than births among whites Last year, more people who are white and not Hispanic died than were born, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. That group is still the USA’s largest but its share of the total has been shrinking for years. 2. Human Population Growth Creeps Back Up Earth's human population is…
Saturday Links

May 18, 2013

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mwkruse

in Culture, Demography, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, History, Links – Saturday, Race, Science, Sociology, Technology (Food & Water), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

1. I loved this map: Dialect Map Of U.S. Shows How Americans Speak By Region 2. What's Driving the Rise in Suicide Among Middle-Aged Men? … The suicide stats from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that middle-aged men (35 to 64) living in the American West are more likely to commit suicide…
Saturday Links

May 11, 2013

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1. The High Calling published an article I wrote. I linked it earlier, but here it is again in an act of shameless self-promotion. It goes to some core issues I'm trying to put into a book. Six Ideas on How to Lead Congregations to Integrate Work and Discipleship 2. Should Pastors Know How Much…
The Triumph of Suburbia

May 9, 2013

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mwkruse

in Demography, Generations, Immigration, Race, Sociology

New Geography: The Triumph of Suburbia A lengthy piece. This analysis was particularly interesting: … Ultimately the question of growth revolves around the preferences of consumers. Despite predictions that the rise of singles, an aging population and the changing preferences of millennials will create a glut of 22 million unwanted large-lot homes by 2025, it…
Saturday Links

May 4, 2013

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Some weeks the pickin's are thin. Not this week. 1. Asians are now the largest immigrant group in Southern California: New Suburban Dream Born of Asia and Southern California 2. Surge in unwed mothers: Deep in the stats, it's not what you think According to the US Centers for Disease Control, 42 percent of children…
Saturday Links

Apr 27, 2013

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mwkruse

in Demography, Economics, Environment, Health and Medicine, History, Links – Saturday, Politics, Public Policy, Race, Religion, Science, Socialism, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

1. Research Digest reports that Students motivated by wealth are just as likely as others to help in an emergency "… Seventy-eight per cent of the business students offered some kind of help to the stranger. Sixty-six per cent went so far as refusing to leave the stranger or giving him/her their mobile phone. The…