Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi found that the median two-income family of the early 2000s earned about 75% more, adjusted for inflation, than a single-income family of the early 1970s — largely because mothers had entered the paid
Psychiatric diagnosis is still largely based on clinical symptoms, history, observation, and diagnostic criteria rather than a confirmatory laboratory biomarker. A 2024 review stated that psychiatry deals mainly with conditions that are not
Estrogen signaling in hippocampal and cortical neurons acts on mitochondria to increase glucose use, mitochondrial respiration and production of ATP—the usable energy cells need to work.
In 2025, median weekly earnings for full-time wage and salary workers who were union members were $1,404, compared with $1,174 for nonunion workers—a $230 weekly difference. BLS cautions that this raw comparison does not control for occupat
In June 1979, manufacturing accounted for about 22% of U.S. nonfarm employment. By June 2019, manufacturing accounted for about 9%. Over that period, total nonfarm employment grew from about 90.1 million to 150.8 million while manufacturing
In 1997, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued guidance explaining how prescription-drug companies could satisfy the “adequate provision” requirement for consumer-directed broadcast advertising. Instead of placing complete labeling i
AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving reported that one in four family caregivers took on debt because of caregiving in 2025.
Biblical and Qur’anic ethics both make justice a duty rather than a tribal preference. The Bible repeatedly commands impartial justice and defense of the vulnerable. Qur’an 4:135 explicitly commands believers to stand for justice even when
In the Current Population Survey, a person is classified as employed if they worked at least 1 hour for pay or profit during the survey reference week. People temporarily absent from a job can also count as employed, and unpaid family worke
BLS “real earnings” are average hourly or weekly earnings adjusted for inflation using a Consumer Price Index. BLS explicitly notes that real-earnings data cannot by themselves measure changes in living standards, which also depend on facto
