Brief commentary taking a look at the makeup of the Federal Workforce. As you can see the Department of Defense has the greatest number of employees. The next largest is the Department of Veterans Affairs. I posted this piece so as to allow Angry Bear readers understand the size of government. This is not a […]
The takeaway in this short report about firearm violence is “Black and Hispanic children were more likely to witness or be shot. Black children were 100 times, and Hispanic children 25 times, more likely than White children to be shot in Chicago and other major US cities. They are at greater risk of being shot […]
Start to cancel some of the loans instead. Student loan debt is now the second-highest consumer debt category after mortgages. Student loan debt in the United States totals $1.777 trillion; annual growth resumed in 2024 following a year-over-year (YoY) decline in 2023. Additional Information Federal Student Loan Portfolio | Federal Student Aid Table of Contents Student Loan Debt […]
There was a lot going on with Covid last week. I had intended to write about NB.1.8.1, the new “variant under monitoring” by the WHO (World Health Organization), which has already become dominant in China, and the new US vaccine policy, but i just didn’t have time. r.j. sigmund RFK Jr says no COVID vaccines […]
Pretty much in the past, potential students from foreign countries were allowed admission to US universities as long as they qualified and could get a student visa, such as the F-1 visa. Potential students must first be admitted to an accredited US educational institution and obtain an I-20 form (Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student […]
I didn’t apply to Harvard. I wouldn’t have gotten in if I had. Even though I lettered in track and field and was captain of my high school cross country team, I was a B student in high school. I didn’t apply to Harvard for grad school either. The lab where I did my postdoc […]
Mark Zuckerberg says colleges aren’t preparing students for today’s job market and higher education is in for a “reckoning.” When, exactly, did “billionaire says” become a substitute for facts and evidence? • The unemployment rate for people with less than a high school diploma is 6.2%; • The unemployment rate for people with only a […]
I was reading about various healthcare issues I found on the internet and in particular Today on Medscape. The snippets are of longer articles which go into greater detail. You may find other articles to be of interest on Medscape at Latest Medical News, Clinical Trials, Guidelines, Today on Medscape. That is if they are […]
Looking at the impact of Mike Johnson and the House proposal of cutting Medicaid will have an impact. Meanwhile, Trump is expecting cuts so as to keep the 2017 tax cuts of which a major portion went to the upper one-percent in income. Estimate “seems low” — KFF’s Larry Levitt, Brookings‘ Matt Fiedler, and Georgetown’s […]
For decades, the United States has been the world leader in scientific research. Even as China has been catching up, the US has managed to remain a magnet for scientists world-wide, and its universities are the most desirable destinations for undergrads and graduate students. Until now. “There are significant economic consequences to spiking medical research […]