Human Geography

The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into The New Serfs

This isn’t about lifestyle choices. It’s about a system in which the Boomers are protecting their wealth and views at the expense of the rest of us.<p>American greatness was long premised on the common assumption was that each generation would do better than previous one. That is being undermined for …

Leftover Obama Refugee Deal With Australia Draws Questions

In mid-November, just after Donald Trump was elected president, the outgoing Obama administration reached an agreement with Australia to resettle …

What Was the Fastest Growing Developed Economy for 2016?

The "Brexit" referendum in the U.K. may seem like the distant past to many U.S. citizens, but it was one of the most notable global events of 2016. …

Economic growth in Europe: Leaving no region behind

Economic growth in most countries is driven by a few urban centers that have a high concentration of economic activity. In the EU, 28 capital cities …

The Most Educated States In The U.S. In 2017

Trump asylum policy could upend US-Mexico relations

<b>Washington (CNN) —</b> Tens of thousands of migrants traveling through Mexico and seeking asylum in the United States could be sent back to Mexico, thanks to a little-noticed provision in President Donald Trump's recent border security executive order.<p>The language tucked into Trump's order on building …

Islam isn’t a race. But it still make sense to think of Islamophobia as racism.

Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti is the star of the Oscar-nominated film <i>The Salesman</i>, but as Al Jazeera reports, she’s planning to boycott the Academy Awards ceremony in protest of Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations, including Iran.<p>Why? …

Ken Clarke is wrong. Parliament cannot defy the EU referendum result

His speech was stirring, but if MPs had voted not to trigger article 50, it would have destroyed trust in our democracy<p>Ken Clarke’s speech during the second reading of the article 50 debate was one of the best I’ve heard in 20 years as a member of parliament. Cogent and lucid, it made the case as …

CTBUH’s 2017 Conference calls for Abstracts&Attendees on People, Density & Infrastructure

<b>The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (</b><b>CTBUH</b><b>) has officially launched its 2017 Conference:</b> <b>Connecting the City: People, Density &</b> …

Projections show women likely won’t make up half of workforce as participation declines

According to Pew Research Center, women’s participation in the work force has plateaued just shy of 50 percent after decades of growth.<p>After decades of strong gains, the share of women in the U.S. labor force has plateaued in recent years. Recently released projections from the Bureau of Labor …

Migration conundrum: India is on the move for work, but why is that still not reducing inequality?

The acceleration of the rate of migration is particularly high for females.<p>While presenting the Economic Survey, an annual report on the economy, on …

What is Value-Based Care?

Senior Practice Leader, WorldatWork<p>This post is hosted on the Huffington Post's Contributor platform. Contributors control their own work and post freely to our site. If you need to flag this entry as abusive, send us an email.<p>Walter Cronkite once remarked, “America’s health-care system is neither …

"My life is made here": Undocumented students fear fate under Trump

Children who were brought to the U.S. illegally are worried they could lose their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protection and get …

Should We Worry About Trump Fudging Jobs Data?

President Donald Trump does not particularly trust official government statistics. Unfortunately, now that he's president, the rest of us might need …

How Trump’s executive orders on immigration, refugees and enforcement are affecting St. Louisans

Last week, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders that sent the lives of many into chaos — in St. Louis and across the world. On …

Trump’s vaccine views are at odds with those of most Americans, study says

The criticism of vaccines voiced by President Trump and some other public figures is at odds with the attitudes of most Americans, who overwhelmingly support requiring public school children to be vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Thursday.<p>…

A third of Americans believe being Christian is a big part of being American

A recent poll by PEW Research Center asked U.S. citizens what was important when being considered an American.<p>Overwhelmingly, 70 percent of Americans believed that being able to speak English was “very important,” followed by sharing American customs and traditions at 45 percent.<p>More interestingly, …

A Depressing Amount Of People Believe This About Christianity & Americans

One of the strangest and most commonplace rhetorical fallacies is the "no true Scotsman." Here's how it goes. You say, "All Scotsmen believe the sky is blue."<p>"Well," your Scottish friend replies. "I don't believe the sky is blue."<p>"You aren't really a Scotsman."<p>Got it? It's basically a form of …

It's Time for Alter-Urbanization

Our National Park Service recently granted us some comic relief to a tremendously challenging period in American history by tweeting climate change facts from rogue accounts, defying a White House decree that had censored them. Twitter accounts such as "AltUSNatParkService" emerged in protest of …

The best cities in America for dating

Single people get all kinds of advice for dating whether or not they’re actually looking to change their relationship status — from marketing yourself like a shampoo to who should pick up the check on a first date.<p>For those hoping to increase their probability for finding their forever mate, the …

Mass Deportation Would Cost Families, U.S. Billions: Study

Deporting large numbers of undocumented immigrants would hit many families in the United States squarely in the pocketbook, creating an economic hardship for those who can least afford it, and affecting the country's overall financial health, says a new report by the Center for Migration Studies in …

Trump’s ‘Carnage’ is Really Up to the States to Fix - Bloomberg

In early 2015, the MacArthur Foundation launched a grant program that would award millions of dollars to help local governments pursue criminal …

The United States House of Representatives | Youth Political Participation Program

The Young Elected Leaders Project (YELP) studies and works with young people who run for public office. At its launch in 2002, the project involved …

How to be a part-time high flyer

Conventional wisdom has it that organisations need a figurehead — a leader with a single vision to inspire everyone else. The UK Green Party of …

How many residents from a country on Trump's banned list live in your county?

President Donald Trump's recent immigration ban on seven predominantly-Muslim nations could impact thousands of recent and permanent New Jersey …

If you’re reading this essay, you should probably have (more) children

<i>By:</i> <b>Jonny Anomaly and Brian Boutwell</b><p>The 20th century saw explosive population growth, fueled by a combination of declining infant mortality, …

Death Spiral Demographics: The Countries Shrinking The Fastest

For most of recent history, the world has worried about the curse of overpopulation. But in many countries, the problem may soon be too few people, and of those, too many old ones. In 1995 only one country, Italy, had more people over 65 than under 15; today there are 30 and by 2020 that number …

To Be American, First 'Speak English,' Study Says

You've probably heard someone complain about an automated voice system that requires the caller to "Press one for English." The gripe usually includes a complaint about this being America and English being the official language. Not quite. The U.S. does not have an official language. Never has. …

You have to be Christian to truly be American? Many people in the U.S. say so.

About one-third of all Americans think that you have to be a Christian to truly be an American — despite the history of religious liberty that dates back to the nation’s very earliest days.<p>In a timely survey released Wednesday afternoon, just as the United States is debating the merits of …

If Trump wants his jobs plan to work he'll have to force more elderly people to work or increase immigration

On the White House website, the Trump administration announced a new goal of adding 25 million new jobs over the next ten years, an extraordinarily audacious, or simply innumerate, target. If their plan were successful, it would require raising employment rates well above what we can realistically …