[11:27] Half of adults to be overweight, obese by 2050 - study
Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a "monumental societal failure" to tackle the problem, with more than half of adults and almost a third of children and young people set to be affected by 2050, according to a new study.
https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2025/0304/1500082-obesity-world-study/
#morethanhalf #almostathird #2050
[01:40 PM] Third of small business owners considering calling it quits
Almost a third (31 percent) of small business owners and self-employed persons are considering closing down or selling their businesses.
https://nltimes.nl/2024/11/27/third-small-business-owners-considering-calling-quits
#Almostathird #31percent
Almost a third (31 percent) of small business owners and self-employed persons are considering closing down or selling their businesses. Entrepreneurs with staff are mainly worried about future high investment costs. Self-employed persons without staff dread stricter regulations, especially around false self-employment, the Financieele Dagblad reports from the Small Business Index by Hogeschool Utrecht, Qredits, and Ondermend Nederland.
[10:03] Immigrants who bring their families are more likely to stay
Family members accounted for almost a third of all non-EU and EFTA nationals moving to the Netherlands between 1999 and...
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/10/immigrants-who-bring-their-families-are-more-likely-to-stay/
#almostathird #non_EU #EFTA #Netherlands #between1999
Family members accounted for almost a third of all non-EU and EFTA nationals moving to the Netherlands between 1999 and 2023, according to new research by national statistics office CBS, Some 1.8 million immigrants from outside the EU and EFTA came to the Netherlands during that period, of whom 32% were joining close relatives. Of them, just 6% were related to a refugee. Some 40% of people in the study had left again by the end of 2023, but 57%...
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