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The United States does not appear on this list of the top five countries in the world for working parents.
There should be as much support as possible for working parents. It's provided to varying degrees of quality by different nations. According to a new report from Bloomberg, which compares countries based on the quality and cost of child care for working parents, Iceland ranks among the best i...

Once again, growth stocks are outperforming value
Fast-growing company shares are heading the 2023 stock rally, but some investors believe they don't have much further to run. This year, the Russell 3000 Growth Index has gained 9.8%, beating the Russell 3000 Value Index's 4.4% gain. The rally is a sharp contrast to last year, when value ...

Gas producers in the United States scrimped on price hedges and now face a punishment.
Natural gas price declines will affect gas producers' first-quarter profitability and cash flows because hedges - the industry's equivalent of price insurance - were insufficient to offset predicted losses, according to analysts and industry experts. Producers who begin the year with fewe...

India will profit from the decoupling of the United States and China, Gautam Adani said at the Davos Economic Summit
Billionaire Gautam Adani said in Davos that the decoupling of trading superpowers the United States and China presents a massive opportunity for India to become a major player in the global supply chain. The world is experiencing the "Great Fracture," according to a blog post written by...

Tougher Air Pollution Regulations Are Being Proposed by the EPA.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States has recommended, for the first time in a decade, stricter limits on fine soot in the air, which is linked to numerous health problems. Changes to PM 2.5 standards would lower the current limit from 12 micrograms per cubic meter to a r...

Borrowing more money to compete with the United States, according to Germany, would constitute a threat to Europe
If Europe takes on additional debt to match U.S. green subsidies, Germany warns, the continent's competitiveness would suffer. When it comes to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the European Union has been quite loud about its worries, claiming that the act's subsidies for North Ame...

The CDC in the United States is expanding the use of Bivalent COVID vaccines for children as young as six months
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States increased the use of COVID-19 vaccinations, which target both the original coronavirus and Omicron sub-variants, to children aged 6 months to 5 years old on Friday.
The news comes only one day after the U.S. The F...

Efforts to clean up the Keystone XL oil spill, the largest in the United States in over a decade, are ongoing
Crews in Kansas began cleaning up after TC Energy's Keystone pipeline spilled 14,000 barrels of oil into a stream on Friday, but the reason of the worst crude spill in the United States in over a decade remained unexplained.
TC Energy of Canada noticed the breach and shut down the i...

After WWII, the United States and Japan left behind thousands of bombs. They're still exploding and murdering people in the Pacific
As the Manele family prepares for a normal Monday night meal on Guadalcanal, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, coconut crabs roast over a sheet of roofing iron heated by a fire below.
As the sun sets, John Manele, a subsistence farmer, talks with his boys, 13-year-old Junior Dominic...

All in one day, Joe Biden embraces and runs afoul of labor.
A labor conflict was developing in Washington as the president delighted in his pro-worker message and working-class heritage during a speech in Michigan. And Biden was not the labor hero this time.
Joe Biden, the Labor Guy, was in his own Tuesday, speaking to union employees at a semic...

Macron will conclude his tour to the United States by meeting with French speakers in Louisiana
French President Emmanuel Macron will conclude his tour to the United States on Friday with a visit to Louisiana, where he will announce the establishment of a fund to subsidize French education in the state.
The visit is wonderful news for Louisiana French speakers who wish to maintain...

How Did Health-Related Ballot Measures Perform in the Midterm Elections?
Aside from abortion, voters around the country chose on ballot measures ranging from extending Medicaid and reducing medical debt to gun control and money for affordable housing.
The 2022 midterm elections included not just high-stakes races for congressional seats and governorships, bu...

The Math Behind America's Test Score Declines
The Nation's Report Card provides a sobering look at how students in the United States have regressed in reading and math, as well as which states have suffered the most significant setbacks.
When the Education Department released data earlier this week documenting what U.S. student...

Negotiations between the United States and Japan for the sale of Tomahawk cruise missiles are in their last stages.
The Yomiuri daily reported on Friday that various anonymous sources within the Japanese government confirmed that Japan is in the last stages of discussions with the United States to purchase U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Tomahawks have a range of over 1,000 kilometers, placing th...

Regarding affirmative action, the Supreme Court has sent mixed signals about its view on using race as a factor in university admissions.
On Monday, in one of the most contentious arguments to come before the court this year, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court sent a strong signal of skepticism regarding the practice of race-conscious admissions at American universities.
The admissions departments at both Harv...

The Math Behind America's Test Score Declines
The Nation's Report Card provides a depressing look at how pupils in the United States have regressed in reading and arithmetic, as well as which states have suffered the most significant setbacks.
When the Education Department released data earlier this week documenting what U.S. s...

Powell, the Fed's chairman, discovers inflation to be a more obstinate foe than expected.
The central bank chief is balancing between managing inflation and precipitating a recession.
Whiplash, to say the least.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the fourth time in a row on Wednesday, coupled with a statement that Wall Street read as a signal that it mig...

North Korea launches more missiles while the United States flies bombers over South Korea.
North Korea launched four ballistic missiles into the sea on Saturday, while the United States sent two supersonic bombers racing over South Korea in a show of military force that highlighted escalating tensions in the region.
According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, four s...

Japan requests that the United States
The Japanese government announced on Saturday that it has requested Washington to relax new regulations governing electric vehicle tax credits in the United States, claiming that they are unfair to Japanese automakers.
The new laws controlling tax credits for acquiring environmentally f...

The Math Behind America's Test Score Declines
The Nation's Report Card provides a depressing look at how pupils in the United States have regressed in reading and arithmetic, as well as which states have suffered the most significant setbacks.
When the Education Department released data earlier this week documenting what U.S. s...