Tag: suicide
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Demography Links
1. Washington Post: Robert Samuelson: America’s demographic denial … For proof, see Paul Taylor’s new book, “The Next America.” Taylor oversees many of the Pew Research Center’s opinion surveys. His masterful synthesis of polls shows that three familiar mega-trends lie at the core of America’s political and social stalemate. First, immigration. By 2050, immigrants and…
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Demography Links
1. New York Times: Why Are Americans Staying Put? … “This decline in migration has been going on for a long time now, through all sorts of ups and downs in the housing market,” said Greg Kaplan of Princeton University, who, along with Sam Schulhofer-Wohl of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, has studied the…
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Saturday Links
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in Africa, Business, Capitalism and Markets, Crime, Demography, Economic Development, Education, History, Kansas City, Links – Saturday, Microenterprise, Politics, Public Policy, Race, Religion, Social Media, Sociology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social1. 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…
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Saturday Links
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in Business, Christian Life, Demography, Economic Development, Economic News, Economics, Education, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, History, Links – Saturday, Politics, Social Media, Sociology, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction))Like the Kruse Kronicle on Facebook if you want links to daily posts to appear in your Facebook feed. Here are this week’s Saturday links. 1. To celebrate the Christmas season, Deck the Halls with Macro Follies 2. The Explosion of 15th Century Printing: A Data Visualization “… Drawing on data from the [Harvard] university’s…
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Middle-aged women drive rise in U.S. suicides: study
Reuters: Middle-aged women drive rise in U.S. suicides: study WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. suicide rates appear to be on the rise, driven mostly by middle-aged white women, researchers reported on Tuesday. They found a disturbing increase in suicides between 1999 and 2005 and said the pattern had changed in an unmistakable way — although the…
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Suicide
SOCIAL INDICATORS 2007 The ultimate pathology is suicide. Suicide should be on the increase in a society that is in decline. People whose mental health is at risk should increasingly be pushed over the edge due to the stresses and strains of decaying society. What is happening with suicide in the United States? The basic…
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Are we Descending Into Violence?
The tragic events at VA Tech have dominated this week's news. As I watch and listen, I hear considerable commentary about how we are descending into a culture of violence. I don't know the college-level stats, but I do know that homicides and violence at public schools have dropped considerably since the early 1990s. There…
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American Social Indicators, 2006: Getting Better but Feeling Worse
Over the past month, I have done twelve posts on American cultural indicators. Here is an index to those posts: Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy Suicide Crime (Part 1) Crime (Part 2) Substance Abuse Family Formation and Sexuality (Part 1) Family Formation and Sexuality (Part 2) Education Economic Status (Part 1) Economic Status (Part 2)…
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Suicide
SOCIAL INIDCATORS 2006 Suicide The ultimate pathology is suicide. Suicide should be on the increase in a society that is in decline. Due to the stresses and strains of decaying society, people whose mental health is at risk should increasingly be pushed over the edge. What is happening with suicide in the United States? The…
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Social Indicators: Suicide
The ultimate pathology is suicide. Suicide should be on the increase in a society that is in decline. People whose mental health is at risk should increasingly be pushed over the edge due to the stresses and strains of decaying society. What is happening with suicide in the United States? The most basic measure of…