Germany is seeing an increase in immigration from other European Union countries.
The population in Germany is growing despite a low birthrate. They are seeing an increase in immigration from other European Union countries. For a third straight year, more people came to the Germany than left it in 2012. This development balances out the natural population decline from deaths and fewer births of about 200,000 a year.
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Smartphone apps are more advanced than what automakers are offering, so they are preferable.
Increasingly, drivers prefer using applications on their smartphones to the navigation systems that come installed in their cars.
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In 2012, global phone shipments hit 1.6 billion units, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, with Samsung shipping a massive 396.5 million phones last year.
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Graduates in China say no thank you to factory jobs.
Guangzhou, China, a city with a population of 15 million, is the hub of a manufacturing region where factories make everything from T-shirts and shoes to auto parts, tablet computers and solar panels. Despite the factories offering double-digit annual pay increases and better benefits, many are desperate for workers.
Continue reading… “Chinese college graduates reluctant to pursue blue collar jobs”
Broadband connections over 10Mbps dubbed high broadband.
The number of broadband connections over 10 Mbps — dubbed “high broadband,” has grown by 73 percent from the third quarter of 2011 to the third quarter of 2012, according to the latest data from Akamai. The U.S. has also see a 20 percent overall increase in average speed to 7.2 Mbps over the past year, but the number of people who have adopted broadband (measured at anything above 4 Mbps) was 62 percent, which puts the U.S. at No. 12 in the worldwide rankings when it comes to adoption and No. 9 when it comes to average speeds.
Continue reading… “The broadband future is faster, but still not distributed evenly”
High school graduation rates hit 78.2%.
High school graduation rates have improved to their highest level in nearly 40 years, driven by a surge in the percentage of Hispanic students earning diplomas, a government study released on Tuesday showed.
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When the U.S. Forest Service looked at mortality rates in counties affected by the emerald ash borer, they found increased mortality rates among people.
In June 2002 was when the blight was first detected in the trees in Canton, Michigan. The emerald ash borer had come from overseas and was quickly spreading – a literal bug – across state and national lines to Ohio, Minnesota, and Ontario. It spread to more distant and seemingly random locations as the infested trees were shipped beyond the Midwest.
Continue reading… “When trees die so do people”
Great male crisis
There is a huge debate in western societies regarding what is called “The great male crisis”. The argument is simple: Men are quickly falling behind women, In the western societies that promote gender equality and free education, women are becoming better educated than men and are earning more. Boys aren’t faring as well as girls in school and college education, and this is being reflected in the job market.
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Business formation at a 30-year low.
There has been a decline in new business formations. The decrease in the number of jobs per new startup are causing innovation stagnation. The reason? Consumer confidence is very low.
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The number of stories longer than 2,000 words published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, from 2003 to 2012.
Major U.S. newspapers have seen a sharp decline in the last ten years in the stories that are published that contain over 2,000 words. The Los Angeles Times has seen an 86% drop, The Washington Post down 50% and The Wall Street Journal down 35%.
Continue reading… “Longform meltdown at major newspapers in the U.S.”
American factories are hiring again, but they’re not hiring union members.
Factory workers had a good month in July in Anderson, Ind., where a Honda parts supplier announced plans to build a new plant and create up to 325 jobs. But in the Cleveland suburbs it was a grim month, where an industrial plastics firm told the state of Ohio it was closing a plant and laying off 150 people.
Continue reading… “Unions are being left behind as manufacturing bounces back from the recession”
U.S. tax code complex
If anybody has the right to tell people “I told you so,” it’s Nina E. Olson, the national taxpayer advocate. She recently submitted her annual report to Congress and top on her list of things that need to be fixed is the complexity of the tax code, which she called the most serious problem facing taxpayers.
Continue reading… “Complexity of U.S. tax code runs amok”
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