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What progress has been made in the poorest countries?

December 16, 2019

The World Bank Blog post Chart: Two decades of progress in the world’s poorest countries by Donna Barne (12/11/2019) provides the chart copied here. The last two decades have seen significant progress in many of the world’s poorest countries. The extreme poverty rate fell from more than 50% to about 30%. …

How is U.S. life expectancy changing?

December 2, 2019

The Economist’s daily chart Why are Americans’ lives getting shorter? (11/27/19) provides the graphic copied here. After climbing gradually over the past half century, life expectancy in America reached a plateau in 2010 and then fell for three consecutive years from 2015 to 2017, the latest for which data are …

What is the leading cause of child mortality?

November 25, 2019

The article by Our World in Data, Pneumonia – no child should die from a disease we can prevent, by Bernadeta Dadonaite (11/12/19) reports: Every 39 seconds a child dies from pneumonia. 5.4 million children under five years old died in 2017. Pneumonia was the cause of death of one-in-seven …

Who are the low-wage workers?

November 18, 2019

The Brookings report Meet the low-wage workforce by Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman (11/7/19) provides demographics of the low-work force by category. The nine categories they use are represented in their chart copied here. For example, cluster 1 are ages 18-24 are not in school and don’t have a college …

What are college persistence rates?

November 14, 2019

The St. Louis Fed post Staff Pick: College Education Persists Less for Blacks and Hispanics by Ana Kent (11/12/19 – reposted from Feb) explains: Educational attainment tells us quite a bit about the types of financial outcomes we should expect a family to have. So does the education of the …

How has income changed in the U.S.?

November 7, 2019

From the Census Bureau report New Data Show Income Increased in 14 State and 10 of the Largest Metros by Gloria Guzman (9/26/19) Median household income for the United States and 14 states increased significantly in 2018 from the previous year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today. But, …

How do food systems differ between rich and poor countries?

October 17, 2019

The World Bank post The high price of healthy food and the low price of unhealthy food by Derke Headey and Harold Alderman (7/23/19) explores the connection between food systems and wealth in a country, along with the impacts. For example, their graph here show a correlation between stunting in …

What 5 states had the highest mortality rates?

October 14, 2019

The CDC data brief, Mortality Patterns Between Five States with Highest Death Rates and Five States with Lowest Death Rates: United States, 2017 by Jiaquan Xu, M.D. (9/5/2019), provides the graph here of death rates by age (pay attention to the log scale on the x-axis). The five states with …

Can a simulation help us understand the value of vaccinations?

October 10, 2019

This animated video by Robert Rhode demonstrates the idea of herd immunity. In short, if enough people in a population are vaccinated then that can protect those that can’t get vaccinated due to say age or illness. This can be used in a probability or QL course.

What is in the Income and Poverty 2018 report?

September 16, 2019

The U.S. Census Bureau report Income and Poverty in the United States: 2018 by Jessica Semega, Melissa Kollar, John Creamer, and Abinash Mohanty (9/10/19) is now available. A few highlights can be found in the post Pay is Up. Poverty is Down. How Women are Making Strides by Jessica Semega …

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