Pewter-Pan

Just tidbits of news

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Happy Birthday Karl Marx (May 5, 1818)

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Why health insurers are data-mining your shopping list

Health insurers are scooping up huge quantities of personal information in a bid to figure out when you’re likely to get sick — and to design interventions to keep you healthy. They hope it'll save them money, too.

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Why you're getting junk mail from health charities - STAT

All that junk mail you're getting from health-related charities may be because you like to bike, drink wine, or wear turtlenecks.

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The Darker Side of Prohibition | JSTOR Daily

During Prohibition, industrial-grade alcohol cost hundreds of American lives. The Coolidge administration encouraged its circulation.

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Making Sense Of Price And Quantity Variations In U.S. Health Care

Making Sense Of Price And Quantity Variations In U.S. Health Care | At the intersection of health, health care, and policy.

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One reason for high drug prices: a huge backlog of unapproved generic drugs

With anger soaring over high drug prices, 4,300 cheaper generic drugs are awaiting approval by the FDA.

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Worlds Apart: Vast Disparities In Treatment Separate Americans With HIV

Poverty and mental illness are among problems keeping about two-thirds of those infected — mainly minorities — from receiving treatment.

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So, you have a minimum wage job. Now what?

For many, moving beyond the first rung is the hard part.

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About three-quarters of the public overall (73%) favors raising the federal minimum wage from its current rate of $7.25 an hour. Just 24% oppose an increase.

Those who support raising the minimum wage were asked, in an open-ended format, to name what the wage should be instead.

Two-in-ten (20%) say the federal minimum wage should be higher than its current rate of $7.25, but less than $10.00 an hour. Nearly four-in-ten (40%) name a rate between $10.00 and $14.99 an hour.

Relatively few (11%) say the minimum wage should be raised to $15.00 an hour or more.

Most Favor Raising Minimum Wage

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Membership in the Communist Party of China: Who is Being Admitted and How? | JSTOR Daily

The composition of the Communist Party of China has evolved considerably since the party was founded in 1921.

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EPI's top charts of 2015 show that policies that enhance low- and middle-income Americans’ economic leverage can go far toward creating an economy where prosperity is broadly shared.

“On some fronts, the economy is steadily recovering from the Great Recession. The unemployment rate is down, and the pace of monthly job growth is healing some of the damage inflicted by the downturn. But as EPI’s top charts of 2015 illustrate, the economy remains far from fully recovered—and is still failing ordinary Americans, who have endured decades of stagnant wages despite working more productively than ever”

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Robert Reich: The sharing economy will be our demise

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Many Hospitals Neglect Practices To Combat ER Overcrowding, Study Finds

Overcrowding in the emergency department can lead to worse outcomes for patients but too few hospitals implement successful programs.

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Nancy Krieger and colleagues argue that law-enforcement–related deaths in the United States should be treated as notifiable conditions, which would allow public health departments to report these data in real-time.

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Germany’s refugee crisis is fueling the far-right Pegida movement

The anti-Islam and anti-immigration protest movement that grew out of Dresden a little over a year ago is not fading away. On the contrary, the far-right in Germany is on the rise, thanks in part to the refugee crisis.

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Where Are STDs Rampant? Google Wants To Help Researchers Find Out

Google is sharing search data with academic teams and other public health researchers to try to fight the spread of infectious diseases.

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The Class Perceptions of Christmas Decorations in Great Britain | JSTOR Daily

In the U.K., Christmas decorations are often associated with the lower-class, and such visibility has been scorned and criticized.