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The Most Important Coronavirus Statistic: 42% Of U.S. Deaths Are From 0.6% Of The Population. Americans are vigorously debating the merits of continuing to lock down the U.S. economy to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The Most Important Coronavirus Statistic: 42% Of U.S. Deaths Are From 0.6% Of The Population

A single statistic may hold the key to resolving this debate: the astounding share of deaths occurring in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Nursing homes and assisted living facilities: The #1 COVID problem 2.1 million Americans, representing 0.62% of the U.S. population, reside in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. (Nursing homes are residences for seniors needing help with activities of daily living, such as taking a shower or getting dressed, who also require 24/7 medical supervision; assisted living facilities are designed for seniors who need help with activities of daily living, but don’t require full-time on-site medical supervision.)

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6 Metrics Show Trump Did Not Inherit A Mess From Obama

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, right, and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, applaud U.S. 100 Women: How Hollywood fails women on screen. Image copyright Getty Images Hollywood is failing women when it comes to representing gender on screen, according to BBC analysis.

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Fewer than half of the 89 films named best picture at the Oscars have passed a common measure of on-screen female representation known as the Bechdel Test.

100 Women: How Hollywood fails women on screen

A movie passes the Bechdel Test if there are at least two named female characters that have a conversation with one another about something other than a man. This conversation needs to happen just once for it to pass. The research also shows that a greater percentage of best picture winners passed the Bechdel test in the 1930s compared to the current decade. Recent winners such as Moonlight, Gladiator and Slumdog Millionaire all fail the test, along with two of this year's best picture nominees, teams from BBC 100 Women and More or Less have found.

Dunkirk, set during World War Two, doesn't have any named female characters. "We deserve our own narrative. What is 100 Women? "X" Marks the Spot. In 2002, I heard an economist characterizing this figure as containing a valuable economic insight.

"X" Marks the Spot

Worldwide hemisphere-dependent lean in Cook pines - Johns - 2017 - Ecology. Under most conditions, trees grow vertically in response to the opposing influences of light and gravity (Wyatt and Kiss 2013).

Worldwide hemisphere-dependent lean in Cook pines - Johns - 2017 - Ecology

In challenging environments, where competition for light or mechanical stress is intense, trees may grow non-vertically (Loehle 1986). Here we describe a novel hemisphere-dependent leaning habit in Araucaria columnaris (Cook pine) (J.R. Fox Nation vs. Reality: Math-Challenged Poll Analysis On ObamaCare. In yet another attempt to turn their audience into blithering idiots, the Fox Nationalists have posted the results of a CNN poll on ObamaCare with a thoroughly misleading headline and commentary: “Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose ObamaCare.”

Fox Nation vs. Reality: Math-Challenged Poll Analysis On ObamaCare

For more Fox Nation mangling of the truth, get the acclaimed book,Fox Nation vs. Reality Rather than linking to the actual poll results on CNN’s web site, Fox Nation links to a little known blog, Red Alert Politics, an affiliate of Clarity Media. The Asian American education story you probably don’t know. Most news stories focus on Asian Americans in elite colleges.

The Asian American education story you probably don’t know

Most actually don’t go there, and many students struggle. The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community is extremely diverse in terms of culture, language, and experiences in the United States. In California, it constitutes about 16% of the total population, and almost 90% of Asian Americans and over 70% of Pacific Islanders begin college in one of California’s public community colleges or four-year universities. An accurate assessment of AAPI student outcomes in California’s post-secondary institutions must measure the linguistic, cultural, religious, socioeconomic, and historical diversity of AAPI subgroups that can be statistically obscured when grouped under the large AAPI umbrella.

Data disaggregation in higher education will be critical to implementing more efficient and streamlined methods of meeting the disparate needs of California’s second fastest growing racial group. It's the Inequality, Stupid. Want more charts like these?

It's the Inequality, Stupid

See our charts on the secrets of the jobless recovery, the richest 1 percent of Americans, and how the superwealthy beat the IRS. How Rich Are the Superrich? A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: working-class whites. (Michael S.

The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: working-class whites

Williamson/The Washington Post) Working-class whites are the biggest beneficiaries of federal poverty-reduction programs, even though blacks and Hispanics have substantially higher rates of poverty, according to a new study to be released Thursday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Government assistance and tax credits lifted 6.2 million working-class whites out of poverty in 2014, more than any other racial or ethnic demographic. Half of all working-age adults without college degrees lifted out of poverty by safety-net programs are white; nearly a quarter are black and a fifth are Hispanic.