The federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 protects people age 40 and older from employment discrimination because of age. The law covers hiring, discharge, compensation, and the terms, conditions, and privileges of employment
In July 2023, 6.9 million workers had a contingent sole or main job, representing 4.3% of total employment. BLS defines contingent jobs as jobs workers do not expect to last or jobs that are temporary, without an implicit or explicit contra
The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) followed women with frequent hot flashes and night sweats at seven U.S. sites from 1996 to 2013. Among 881 women, these symptoms lasted a median of 7.4 years in total, and continued for a
In 2024, 74.0% of U.S. mothers with children under age 18 were in the labor force. The rate was 68.3% for mothers whose youngest child was under 6 and 78.0% for mothers whose youngest child was age 6–17.
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies reported that 83% of renter households earning under $30,000 were housing-cost burdened in 2024. About 67% were severely burdened, spending more than half their income on rent and utilities.
BLS family-employment data summarized in the Home Economics research show that about 39% of married-couple households with children had both spouses in the paid labor force in 1970. By the 2020s, that share was about 65.4%.
At yearend 2023, 1,124,400 males were serving sentences longer than one year in state or federal prison. Males accounted for 93% of that sentenced prison population.
1. Your body has its own cannabinoid system. It’s called the endocannabinoid system (ECS): a signaling network that runs through the whole body. The two main receptors are CB1, found mostly in the brain and nerves, and CB2, found mostly in
Peer-reviewed sexual-response research supports a nonlinear model of female sexual response in which context, emotional intimacy, arousal, and desire can interact in a circular rather than strictly sequential pattern.
The Social Security Amendments of 1983 gradually raised the age for unreduced retirement benefits from 65 to 67. The change applies fully to workers born after 1959, whose full retirement age is 67.
