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MicroWave OP , 4 months ago to news in Students reported her for a lesson on race. Then she taught it again.

Looks like she thinks the kids might lack exposure because they’re rich:

Both teachers knew that most teens in Chapin — a wealthy town where the median income is above $100,000 and large homes line pretty Lake Murray — had never read anything like Coates’s searing account of growing up Black in Baltimore. They had not spent their childhood, as Coates wrote he did, “naked … before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease.” They had never memorized “a list of prohibited blocks,” unsafe due to guns and violence.

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to news in Students reported her for a lesson on race. Then she taught it again.

Did you read the article? The teacher gave pretty good reasons why:

Plus, both teachers believed the book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is superbly written: a master class in the deployment of rhetorical devices. There was no better way to teach children how to formulate their own arguments, they thought.

“It teaches kids a different perspective, [it] teaches kids how to write well,” Wood said in an interview. And “it’s the right thing to do.”

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to news in The Soft Landing Is Global, but It’s Cushiest in America: Economies all over the world are lowering inflation while avoiding serious recession — but growth in the United States stands out

Believe it or not, layoffs are lower than average, according to data going back to 2000: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSLDL

I think it’s because layoffs (especially in tech) are getting a lot of attention in the news now.

But I agree with you about food prices.

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago to news in Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll

No worries! Sorry if my tone sounded harsh. Yeah, I agree with you that new articles can sometimes have tunnel vision.

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago to news in Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll

I’m not sure what you’re arguing anymore. I said the article focuses on the “feminism” portion of the study. This new portion you cited to is about “equal opportunities.” Look at page 15 of the PDF where it specifically shows 16% for men aged 16-29 vs. 13% for men aged 60+ with respect to “feminism” (the point of the article).

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/574b6510-281a-4a24-8922-63a1aac68a24.png

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to news in Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll

The first link is the study the article cites to. Also, I don’t think there’s a disagreement. The portion you cited refers specifically to “toxic masculinity,” whereas the article focuses on people’s reactions to “feminism.” Specifically, it mentions that 16% of Gen Z males felt feminism had done more harm than good, compared to 13% among those over 60, to support its claim.

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to news in Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll

Looks like this was an online poll where you get paid if randomly selected:

Ipsos UK interviewed online a representative sample of 3,716 adults aged 16+ across the United Kingdom between 17 and 23 August 2023. This data has been collected by Ipsos’s UK KnowledgePanel, an online random probability panel…

kcl.ac.uk/…/masculinity-and-womens-equality-study…

For what it’s worth, there’s a recent Gallup survey showing a similar trend that published a couple weeks ago:

…Since 2014, women between the ages of 18 and 29 have steadily become more liberal each year, while young men have not. Today, female Gen Zers are more likely than their male counterparts to vote, care more about political issues, and participate in social movements and protests.

businessinsider.com/gen-z-gender-gap-young-men-wo…

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago to news in Gen Z and millennial productivity is being crushed by bosses who don’t understand them, top university research says

Looks like someone found ChatGPT to help them write this.

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago to news in IRS set to launch its free tax-filing pilot program for some taxpayers. Here's what to expect

Awesome tip

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago to news in Trump can delay paying full E. Jean Carroll damages until after appeal: report

According to the cited NYT article, he still has to put up money one way or another while he appeals:

Yet the former president is still on the hook to pay something — possibly a sizable sum — while he waits.

Mr. Trump can pay the $83.3 million to the court, which will hold the money while the appeal is pending. This is what he did last year when a jury ordered him to pay Ms. Carroll $5.5 million in a related case.

Or, Mr. Trump can try to secure a bond, which will save him from having to pay the full amount up front.

A bond might require him to pay a deposit and offer collateral, and would come with interest and fees. It would also require Mr. Trump to find a financial institution willing to lend him a large sum of money at a time when he is in significant legal jeopardy.

nytimes.com/…/trump-carroll-pay-83-million.html

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago to news in Economists Predicted a Recession. So Far They’ve Been Wrong

Thanks for the link. If I’m reading it correctly, the total number of tech layoffs for the whole 2023 was 191,000, which is less than the 199,000 new jobs added in just the single month of December 2023?

In 2023: More than 191,000 workers in U.S.-based tech companies (or tech companies with a large U.S. workforce) were laid off in mass job cuts.

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago to news in Economists Predicted a Recession. So Far They’ve Been Wrong

What’s your source?

Recent December data shows unemployment rate at 3.7% with 199,000 added jobs:

Nonfarm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 199,000 for the month, slightly better than the 190,000 Dow Jones estimate and ahead of the unrevised October gain of 150,000, the Labor Department reported Friday. The numbers were boosted by sizeable gains in government hiring as well as workers returning from strikes in the auto and entertainment industries.

The unemployment rate declined to 3.7%, compared with the forecast for 3.9%, as the labor force participation rate edged higher to 62.8%. A more encompassing unemployment rate that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time positions for economic reasons fell to 7%, a decline of 0.2 percentage point.

cnbc.com/…/jobs-report-november-2023-us-payrolls-…

MicroWave OP , 4 months ago to news in Why China poses a growing threat to the U.S. auto industry

Like @altec said, Chinese subsidies for electric vehicles are helping to flood the global market. In fact, the EU has started to look into this:

The European Union is launching an investigation into subsidies that China provides to electric vehicle makers, the head of the bloc’s executive branch said Wednesday, as concern grows that the aid is harming European companies.

“Global markets are now flooded with cheaper Chinese electric cars, and their price is kept artificially low by huge state subsidies. This is distorting our market,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France.

apnews.com/…/eu-china-electric-vehicle-subsidy-in…

MicroWave OP , 5 months ago to world in Asbestos in drinking water: What does it mean for human health?

To be more specific:

Asbestos is a known carcinogen to humans, meaning it is capable of causing cancer. When asbestos fibres become airborne and are inhaled, they are known to lodge in the lungs and other parts of the airways, where they can cause scarring, inflammation, asbestosis – an inflammatory condition leading to permanent lung damage – and cell damage that lead to cancers, including mesothelioma, an incurable cancer of the lining that covers organs such as the lungs. For decades, however, the risk from swallowing asbestos has been thought of as small as most fibres were assumed to pass through the gut and be expelled in faeces.

MicroWave OP , 5 months ago to world in Support for far-right AfD eases after Germany-wide protests - polls

Huh? The headline says “eases” not “erased”.