Countries with the Highest Shares of Their Populations Living in the U.S.
David J. BierThe United States is home to immigrants from every country in the world, but people are much more likely to leave some countries than others. The probability of a  person from a given country immigrating to the United States can be broadly measured by dividing the number of immigrants in the United States by the country’s population plus the country’s population.Figure 1  shows the origin countries for people with the highest likelihood of immigrating to the United States. The immigration data come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey as of July 1, 2021 and the country population da...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 29, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs

Golf Update
Since I know my 2 1/2 readers are all big golf fans I don ' t have to tell you that the U.S. Open champion is a British guy who was previously little known on this side of the pond, although he did win a U.S. amateur championship some years ago and has been successful on the European tour. The tournament was mildly interesting to me because it took place near my former home in Jamaica Plain and I used to drive by the site often on my way to Brookline and points west. Anyway, you couldn ' t care less about any of that. But what is actually interesting is that mass murderer, torturer and tyrant Mohammad bin Salman, the ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Eight Reasons For Ending Joe Biden ’s Travel Bans
Ryan Bourne and Brad SubramaniamBack in July, Ioutlined why Joe Biden ’s crude COVID-19 travel bans on non-Americans coming from Europe, India, and a few other countries no longer made any sense from a public health perspective.Talk in Washington at the time was of lifting these restrictions by September. Well, here we are, mid-way through that month and the restrictions are going strong. Officials and diplomats now seem to think October or even Thanksgiving are the earliest potential dates for their removal. Some ponder whether the political incentives might point towards inactionuntil the mid-terms...which would mean b...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne, Brad Subramaniam Source Type: blogs

Whiteness
 We have the classic race vs. class debate going on in the comments. I have also received (and not published) a mind-boggingly absurd comment arguing that slavery was not a fundamentally racist institution.  Let me say first that in my view it really isn ' t possible in the United States to separate the issues of class and race. The basic reason why we have never developed an effective workers ' party and had a relatively weak labor movement and a very limited socialist tradition compared to most of western Europe is because the working class has been divided by race. Yes, there have been attempts to organiz...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 21, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Examining the Jones Act ’s Harm to U.S. Ports
Colin GrabowEarlier this weekWall Street Journal columnist Mary O ’Grady penned anexcellent piece detailing the myriad ways in which U.S. maritime protectionism interferes and distorts trade. Some of the examples presented may be familiar, such as theimperilment of Alaska ’s summer cruise season. But the column also delves into effects of the law that are often overlooked, such as its impact on ports:The Jones Act is particularly costly to Puerto Rico because it keeps the island from capitalizing on its comparative advantage as a  transit point for cargo. Colin Grabow, who heads the Cato Institute’sProject on Jones ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 7, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs

A Pandemic " Marshall Plan " ​?
This article was originally published on LinkedIn on January 3, 2020.)---------Keith Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BC, is the Board Certified Nurse Coach behind NurseKeith.com.Keith is the host of The Nurse Keith Show, his solo podcast focused on career advice and inspiration for nurses. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast.A widely published nurse writer, Keith is the author of Savvy Networking For Nurses: Getting Connected and Staying Connected in the 21st Century and Aspire to be Inspired: Creating a Nursing Career That Matters. He has contribute...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 4, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 healthcare healthcare access healthcare disparities medicine Source Type: blogs

TWiV 668: Mice, bats, and coronaviruses with Tony Schountz
Tony Schountz joins TWiV to explain the work of his laboratory showing that deer mice can be infected with and transmit SARS-CoV-2, and how his colony of Jamaican fruit bats is being used to understand their response to virus infections. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 2, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology coronavirus COVID-19 deer mouse fruit bat hantavirus MERS-CoV pandemic reservoir host SARS-CoV-2 viral viruses zoonosis Source Type: blogs

Dr Harold Moody
was the subject of theGoogle Doodle on 1st September.  The image caught my eye as the designer intended, and I followed the link.And then, I started reading Reni Eddo-Lodge ' s Why I am no longer talking to white people about race, and there he was again.Moody was born in Jamaica, came to England to study medicine (at King ' s College London), and then worked in London as a general practitioner.  In 1931, he founded the League of Coloured Peoples, a civil rights organisation.I could find nothing in medical journals about him, but did find thisbook chapter by David Killingray, published in Manchester Op...
Source: Browsing - October 1, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: Black History Month Congregationalism medical history Source Type: blogs

House Cricket in Cottenham
If you’ve spent even just one of the recent spate of sultry summer nights outside, you may, if you closed your eyes briefly, be forgiven for imagining that the village had been lifted wholesale and transported to a balmy beach resort, a little farther than Bournemouth and certainly not northwards to Barnard Castle, say somewhere on The Mediterranean coast. But, it’s not so much about the heat and humidity that has led to perspiring gents and glowing local ladies, rather it’s the sound. Have you heard it? The chirping, chirruping as the dusk settles and the night draws on? The sound seems to bounce from g...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 10, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs

An immigrant ’s gift to America
Papa was a seasonal farmworker. This job was noted to be “slave work” by the American locals. Still, he traveled from Jamaica to Florida and toiled in fields to send money home to his wife and eleven children for several years. Unable to read and write, he required assistance with letters that expressed gratitude for […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 17, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jodi-ann-edwards" rel="tag" > Jodi-Ann Edwards, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs

Details of 155 Immigration Detainers for U.S. Citizens
David J. BierImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) routinely requests that local law enforcement detain U.S. citizens to allow it to pick them up. ICE ’s recordslist 3,158 U.S. citizens as targets of ICE detainers from October 2002 to September 2019. Another 1.6 percent of actual ICEarrests through Secure Communities —the targeting system that ICE uses to issue detainers—were U.S. citizens from October 2008 to April 2011—or 3,627 citizens. Immigration courts—again with incomplete records—show 2,549 removal proceedings terminated in the favor of U.S. citizens from 2002 to June 9, 2017.These totals undercount...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 4, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs

6 Ways to Feel a Little Happier Each Day
Don’t settle for unhappiness! No matter who you are, there are going to be days (or weeks or months) where life kinda stinks and love and happiness are nowhere in sight. In the back of your mind is that you just want to be happy. Yet, if you were to be honest, you’d settle for things being even just a little bit better. It was Bob Marley who said, “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” But that doesn’t mean you need to play reggae and go to Jamaica to be happy. Rather, the phrase “Love the life you live” means to find the beauty in your life rather than judging it against the lives of ot...
Source: World of Psychology - January 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: General Happiness Inspiration & Hope LifeHelper Mental Health and Wellness Publishers Self-Help YourTango Gratitude Positive Attitude Source Type: blogs

Context and Nuance, Part 4
We have reviewed the labels sociologists use for various socially constructed categories. I have not yet mentioned gender, which is obviously at least equally important, but I want to keep the number of moving parts manageable for now.Racial categories can vary from time to time and place to place, but because the theory of race is that it ' s inherited they are generally pretty rigid -- you ' re stuck in the category you were born into -- and they can also be more or less coextensive with caste. For example, people imported from Africa and their descendants were categorized both by race and caste throughout much of the na...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 10, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

New Reports Detail the Jones Act ’s Cost to Puerto Rico
Last year the American Maritime Partnership released a report claiming that the Jones Act, a protectionist law which requires domestic water transport to be performed by vessels that are U.S.-made, crewed, owned, and flagged, imposes no cost on consumers in Puerto Rico. Riddled with apples-to-oranges comparisons and an opaque methodology —the no cost assertion was in large part based on a cost comparison of a mere 13 items sold by Walmart at its stores in Jacksonville, Florida and San Juan, Puerto Rico—the reportwas deeply flawed.Just how flawed became more apparent last week when several Puerto Rico-based business gro...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 25, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs

The Jones Act Isn't Working. Just Ask Its Supporters.
Although the Jones Act ’s stated purpose is to ensure  that the United States “shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency,” this plainly isn’t the case. But don’t take my word for it, just listen to ardent backers of the lawsuch as Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA):Our military relies on privately-owned sealift capacity and highly trained and credentialed merchant mariners to transport and sustain our armed forces when deployed overseas during...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs