Women are waiting longer to have children, and more women than ever are choosing not to have children at all, according to a new Census Bureau report. Other findings: Some 20 percent of women ages 40 to 44 have no children, double the level of 30 years ago. Women in that age bracket who do have children have fewer than ever -- an average of 1.9 children, compared with the median of 3.1 children in 1976. "A lot of women are not having any children," said Jane Lawler Dye, a Census Bureau researcher who did the report, which looked at women of childbearing age in 2006. "It used to be sort of expected that there was a phase of life where you had children, and a lot of women aren’t doing that now," Dye said. Women with advanced degrees are more likely to be childless, the study found: Of women 40 to 44 with graduate or professional degrees, 27 percent are childless. Among women who did not continue their education beyond high school, only 18 percen...
Content suppressed by ://URLFAN, for full article visit source
Websites mentioned in article (click for rank details):
17 percent of the American population does not have any type of health insurance. This is culled from a report by the American Census Bureau. And this would have been worse if not for group health plans that have made it possible for a good portion of those who have it.
However, the sum of Americans [...] ... more
Major Quake in US Midwest Might Kill 6000, Study Estimates Bloomberg - 2 hours ago The New Madrid zone runs from southern Illinois to northern Arkansas and includes Memphis, with a population of about 670900, according to US Census Bureau …
... more
Currently, there are 73 Americans serving life sentences for crimes they committed when they were 13 or 14 years old, a number far higher than in Europe, says the New York Times. The differences in the two approaches, legal experts say, are rooted in politics and culture: The European systems emphasize rehabilitation, while the American one stresses individual responsibility and punishment. Corrections professionals and criminologists here and abroad tend to agree that violent crime... more
Piracy has a harmful impact on U.S. produced copyright products and on the overall U.S. economy. In 2005, piracy conservatively cost motion pictures, sound recordings, business software and entertainment software/vide collectively at least $25.6 billion in lost revenue. Beyond the cost to the copyright industries, this lost revenue translates into lost production of legitimate copyright products, which in turn means lost wages and lost purchases of upstream products and services througho... more
WORLD BANK WEARY From: feeds.feedburner.com Post Date: 2007-10-19 06:19:54
As globalization transforms the world economy, the World Bank’s comparative advantage for lending to poor countries is gone and its role diminished, says Adam Lerrick, professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University. There are new competitors without the bank’s social wish list: China, Brazil, India and Russia are funding infrastructure and industry for even the poorest countries, to lock in access to raw materials and export markets. China alone will send $25 billion to ... more
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, liberal publications have devoted great space and attention to attacking the entire theory that lower tax rates can increase incentives for investment, saving and work, says Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial board. The quality of this discourse rarely rises above the level of trash talk. Nevertheless, some arguments are repeated with such regularity that they need to be addressed. One is that supply-... more
Feeds and posts are not affliated with ://URLFAN. They are displayed here simply for informational purposes, if you would like to remove your feed, posts, or domain from ranking and analysis, please contact us.
Content suppressed by ://URLFAN, for full article 
Websites mentioned in article
Buzz Words mentioned in article:
How popular is feeds.feedburner.com?
