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A report published by Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security research in late November concluded that single-person households will account for 44.3% of the nationwide total by 2050. The figure rises to 54.1% in Tokyo. The number of people aged 65 or older living alone is projected to rise to 10.83 million by 2050, a 1.5-fold increase from the 2020 figure.
The Crucial Communism Teaching Act, in its own words, is designed to teach children that “certain political ideologies, including communism and totalitarianism…conflict with the principles of freedom and democracy that are essential to the founding of the United States.”
Although sponsored by Republicans, it enjoys widespread support from Democrats and is focused on China, Venezuela, Cuba and other targets of U.S. empire. The wording of the bill has many worried that this will be a centerpiece of a new era of anti-communist hysteria, similar to previous McCarthyist periods.
The library will be the only department to lose all of its faculty members. Administrators say the university can make do with the library dean and remaining staff. Above: Librarian Hunter Dunlap stands at the Malpass Library on the campus of Western Illinois University
Exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood altered the balance of mental health in the U.S. population, making generations of Americans more depressed, anxious and inattentive or hyperactive, according to researchers. They estimate that 151 million cases of psychiatric disorder over the past 75 years have resulted from American children’s exposure to lead.
“My friends, you don’t have to be a PhD in political science to understand that this is not democracy. This is not one person, one vote. This is not all of us coming together to decide our future. This is oligarchy.”
“School counselors and general education social workers are definitely areas where we are lacking,” said Karen Paquette, Assistant Superintendent of Lewiston Public Schools, which received the most funding of the districts.
The portal is a resource from NIH in support of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, which is focused on closing research gaps and improving prevention, detection and treatment of health issues affecting girls and women.
Staff in social work teams across Lancashire – including at White Cross in Lancaster – are to walk out for 25 days, including during the festive period, as part of the sixth round of strikes over salary grades and work boundaries.