My aunt used to call junk food, near-food. Pepsi calls it fun for you food. It appears that ultra processed “food” is worse that that. Because consumption generally indicates poor socio-economic status, like poverty. We should focus on fixing that too.
#upf #ultraprocessedfood #nearfood #junkfood #poverty #socioeconomic
https://thewalrus.ca/sure-ultra-processed-foods-are-bad-but-how-does-that-help-anyone/
US School Shootings (K-12), Mapped (1966-2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts57mneD-ME
The US government continues to exacerbate the socioeconomic conditions driving violence.
#USA #SchoolShootings #Socioeconomic #Violence #Government #Billionaires #Children #Rage #Murder
Catch-up 📻 CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni joined the Voice of Islam Breakfast Show yesterday to discuss inequalities in UK #socialcare for #olderpeople, highlighting regional, #socioeconomic and ethnic disparities, and the need for investment, inclusion of older voices, and adapting policies to #demographic change. Listen ⬇️
News: Latest News/Headlines | Traffic | Weather| Sports Topic I: Growing Older Growing Wiser Topic II: Youth, Technology, and Faith: Navigating the Digital Age as Muslims Presenters: Imam Muhammad
#Dialecticalmaterialism is a materialist theory that has applications in a variety of philosophical disciplines & emphasizes the importance of real-world conditions & the presence of contradictions within & among #socialrelations, such as #class, #economics, & #socioeconomic interactions.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
Baroness Sue Gray questions government plan to limit civil service internships to working-class students
Baroness Sue Gray, former chief of staff to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and known for her Partygate investigation, has criticized the UK government's decision to restrict Whitehall's main civil service internship to students from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Scheduled to take effect in Octob... [More info]
"These #fires are neither isolated nor "natural" phenomena. They are expressions of a system in combustion, accelerated by #climatechange induced by our #socioeconomic order & aggravated by #land-use policies subordinated to accumulation, #profit & #growth."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/27/mediterranean-wildfires-are-no-accident
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
No evidence ageing/declining populations compromise socio-economic performance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16872
#HackerNews #NoEvidence #Aging #Populations #SocioEconomic #Performance #Research #Insights
Concerns about declining or ageing populations often centre on the fear that fewer people will translate to a weaker economy and lower living standards. But these fears are frequently based on oversimplified or misapplied interpretations of economic models, and appear to be driven more by political agendas rather than evidence. In reality, long-term prosperity depends more on how societies invest in education, skills, and technology, not just how many people they have. We examine national data at the global scale to test whether slower population growth or ageing populations are linked to worse economic or social outcomes. Using nine different indices of socio-economic performance (domestic comprehensive wealth, income equality, research and development expenditure, patent applications, human capital, corruption perception index, freedom, planetary pressure-adjusted Human Development Index, healthy life expectancy at birth), we find no evidence that they are. In fact, we find that countries with low or negative population growth perform better on average for all indicators, and that even within-country time series show that most older and slower-growing populations fare better on average. These findings challenge common assumptions and highlight the need to move beyond fear-based and politically motivated narratives toward a more informed understanding of what truly supports thriving societies.
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks
OccuWorld
Centre for Population Change
Nathaniel Gregory
Joseph Lim 
venonat5592 at KillBait
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