KILEY HURST, Research Analyst - Pew Research Center
Stephan:
One of the reasons so many men today feel threatened and diminished by women is that the United States has become a nation in which the women are much better educated than the men. In my opinion, this is why that horrible story I published yesterday, the one sent to me by a Protestant minister’s wife, is the reality in the White evangelical Protestant world. Men, White men particularly, don’t want to accept that women are not only their equals but often their superiors.
Women between the ages of 25 and 34 continue to be more likely than men in the same age group to have a bachelor’s degree. The gender gap in bachelor’s degree completion appears in every major racial or ethnic group, though the size of the gap varies widely.
In 1995, young men and women were equally likely to hold a bachelor’s degree (25% each). Since then, there has been a growing gap between men and women in college completion.
Today, 47% of U.S. women ages 25 to 34 have a bachelor’s degree, compared with 37% of men.
The share of young women with a bachelor’s degree has increased by 22 percentage points since 1995, from 25% to 47%. Over the same period, men have seen a smaller increase (12 points, from 25% to 37%).
How we did this
A 2021 Pew Research Center survey asked Americans without a bachelor’s degree why they chose not to seek one – and found some gender differences in the responses. For example, men without a bachelor’s degree were more likely than women to say they just didn’t want to get one. In turn, women without a bachelor’s degree were […]
This is yet another chapter in the ongoing story of the inferiority of the American illness profit system. As always, it is always about corporate greed and profit.
Reporting Highlights
An Insurer Sanctioned: Three states found United’s algorithmic system to limit mental health coverage illegal; when they fought it, the insurer agreed to restrict it.
A Patchwork Problem: The company is policing mental health care with arbitrary thresholds and cost-driven targets, highlighting a key flaw in the U.S. regulatory structure.
United’s Playbook Revealed: The poorest and most vulnerable patients are now most at risk of losing mental health care coverage as United targets them for cost savings.
For years, it was a mystery: Seemingly out of the blue, therapists would feel like they’d tripped some invisible wire and become a target of UnitedHealth Group.
A company representative with the Orwellian title “care advocate” would call and grill them about why they’d seen a patient twice a week or weekly for six months.
In case after case, United would refuse to cover care, leaving patients to pay out-of-pocket or go without it. The severity of their issues seemed not to matter.
Around 2016, government officials began to pry open United’s black box. They found that the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate had been using algorithms to identify providers […]
I have already covered the first failure of The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, which failed but still earned, to the astonishment of many including myself, 15 Democratic votes. But it will be back. This is about taking away the nonprofit status of organizations Trump and the MAGAts in Congress do not like. It was because I saw this coming that I did not make SR a 501(c) 3. It was not an easy decision because I probably would have gotten much more support. But when you are structured as a nonprofit and the government takes that status away it basically means the organization’s end. What really alarms me the most though is what this article describes. The Republicans, owned/bribed by the carbon industries, with Trump as their leader, are going to try and castrate all efforts that support the conversion to non-carbon energy and that seek to prepare for what climate change is already doing because almost all of those organizations are nonprofits.
Climate protesters hang a sign from the West End Bridge over the Ohio River. Credit: Don Wright / AP
Democrats just helped Republicans give President-elect Donald Trump the potential power to shut down nonprofits under the guise of fighting terrorism — while GOP lawmakers have quietly revealed a new blueprint for defunding organizations they disagree with.
Earlier this month, the House Energy and Commerce Committee laid out a plan to target environmental justice nonprofits and organizations working to transition the economy away from fossil fuels.
That report preceded a major House vote on Thursday in which Republicans and 15 Democrats passed legislation giving the Treasury Department the power to strip nonprofit news organizations, advocacy groups, and universities of their tax-exempt status.
The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act was originally proposed last year, ostensibly to prevent U.S. nonprofits from supporting groups like Hamas after widespread protests over Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Nicknamed the “nonprofit killer,” it gives the president unprecedented authority to go after political opponents. Advocacy groups like […]
If you are an hourly worker and you voted for Trump, you just got screwed out of overtime pay, although you may not know it yet since after I found it on an academic legal site I only found this report in The New Republic in the general audience press. The media as the article describes either didn’t understand the judge’s decision or didn’t care.
President-elect Donald Trump in New York City on November 16 Credit: Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC
You probably missed it, because it created barely a ripple in the media, but last Friday, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump struck down one of President Biden’s most pro-worker policies: his effort to ensure that far more Americans benefit from overtime pay. Around four million salaried workers with lower incomes are the losers in this decision, yet it generated startlingly few news stories and no outraged missives from leading columnists.
Watching this all unfold brings to mind a now-forgotten controversy. Remember when Oliver Anthony, the little-known folk singer, went viral in 2023 with his song lamenting the plight of working people imposed by the “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Donald Trump and Republicans claimed the bearded, red-haired Southerner as one of their own, a veritable bard of MAGA country who’d crafted the ultimate right-wing populist ballad of protest aimed directly at supercilious elites.
“This is the anthem of the forgotten Americans,” gushed Representative Marjorie Taylor […]
I totally support the ICC. Killing by bombs and starving to death tens of thousands of women and children as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Gallant have done is despicable and evil. It doesn’t end terrorism it actually encourages it. If you are a father or a brother how would you feel if your mother, wife/sister and three children were killed by a bomb? What really stands out for me though is the utter hypocrisy of Biden. We support what are essentially the same crimes against humanity charges the ICC has made against Putin, but we defend Netanyahu against those charges, and provide the bombs, rockets, and bullets that are creating the genocide he is committing.
Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: Getty
The ICC accused Netanyahu and Gallant of a string of human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip, where local health officials said the death toll from the Israeli military’s yearlong assault on the Palestinian enclave had now passed 44,000.
Israel responded furiously to the warrants, with Netanyahu’s office branding the decision “antisemitic,” rejecting the charges as “absurd and false” and condemning the ICC as a “biased and discriminatory political body.”
Hamas welcomed the warrants as an “important step towards justice” but senior political official Basem Naim said the court’s decision “remains limited and symbolic if it is not supported by all means by all countries around the world to implement it.”
A spokesperson for the National Security Council said the U.S. “fundamentally rejects the Court’s […]
