Rate rose among middle-class women aged 18 to 45 and fell among working-class women of same ageThe number of younger middle-class women who smoke has jumped 25% over the past decade, according to research.Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and illness in the UK and accounts for 76,000 deaths annually. Experts from UCL examined data from nearly 200,000 adult participants in the Smoking Toolkit Study, a monthly survey of adults in England. Just over 44,000 were women aged 18-45....
Higher costs had the biggest impact on Asian businesses in 2023, even as they grappled with a global slowdown and rising interest rates, a survey by UOB showed.
Health Foundation report also predicts people in poorest areas will be three times more likely to die by the age of 70A record 3.7 million workers in England will have a major illness by 2040, according to research.On current trends, 700,000 more working-age adults will be living with high healthcare needs or substantial risk of mortality by 2040 – up nearly 25% from 2019 levels, according to a report by the Health Foundation charity. Continue reading
Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows there were 263,904 suspensions in the spring term of 2022/23, compared to 201,090 during the spring term of 2021/22 - a rise of 31%.
Hollywood star Michael Douglas said playing Benjamin Franklin when the Founding Father was 70 is giving him hope that 81-year-old President Joe Biden isn't too old to serve another term.
She never puts a foot wrong when it comes to fashion.
From green commuting choices to data gathering and education efforts, UWinnipeg staff and students are making sustainability a daily habit.
2020: The Year The System Showed Its Real Face Authored by Paul Rosenberg via FreemansPerspective.com, (Originally published September 28, 2020.) As we grew up, nearly all of us were inundated with stories of our glorious national fathers, our beautiful democracies, and so on. And being young, we for the most part believed them. The system gave us our prosperity, our comfort, our medicine, our sense of importance. Soon enough we learned that the system was also stupid and...
When former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley ended her presidential bid in early March, Donald Trump and his allies emphatically told her supporters and "those" Romney-esque Republicans to take a hike. Those supporters listened, as Pennsylvania proved yet again this week, when more than 16% of Republican voters in the state's closed primary cast a ballot for Haley and against Trump. The Washington Post's Aaron Blake assembled a list of states with Republican-only primaries so far and highlighted the...
As human life expectancy has improved over the decades, the age that we think of as "old" has pushed back later in life, researchers say.
The federal government loses up to $521 billion a year to fraud, according to a first-of-its-kind estimate from a Congressional watchdog. The U.S. Government Accountability Office, which serves as the research arm of Congress, estimated annual fraud losses cost taxpayers between $233 billion and $521 billion annually, according to a new report published Tuesday. The fraud estimate's range represents 3% to 7% of average federal obligations.
This Week the Federal Trade Commission Votes on Restricting Anti-Market Employer Practice The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold hearings starting Tuesday, April 23, on noncompete clauses. These clauses are part of tens of millions of employment contracts and limit workers’ ability to quit their current employer and find jobs elsewhere. That, in turn, suppresses []