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2022-04-16: News Headlines

Hunter Wade York, Mirza Balaj, Kam Sripada, Emmanuela Gakidou, Terje Andreas Eikemo (2022-04-16). [Correspondence] Understanding the social determinants of health — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Priya Vart for the critical reading of our study1 of the association of parental education and global mortality in children younger than 5 years. Our models accounted for study-level controls for the confounding effects of wealth or income, partner's years of schooling, and sex of the child. The key challenge of systematic reviews is that they are limited by the characteristics of the data from published studies, and this constrained our choice of covariates. This constraint brings us to a larger point—namely, in characterising the average effect of published studies, we had to choose an ideal stud…

Brian Wakamo (2022-04-15). Auto Workers, Climate Groups Team Up to Demand Union-Made, Electric Postal Vehicles. inequality.org

SAM (2022-04-15). Still Another Reason for Taxing the Rich. inequality.org

Sarah Anderson (2022-04-15). International Solidarity in Action: Lessons From a Path-Breaking US-Mexico Union Alliance. inequality.org

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-04-15). MTN prepares youth to tackle the unemployment Gap. plusnews.ug In a market with too many applicants and not enough jobs, getting experience is a catch-22; you need it to get jobs, you need a job to get it. It is not once that employers in Uganda have voiced their grievance of employing youth armed with theoretical knowledge and no practical experience. It gets worse …

_____ (2022-04-15). The Venezuela Coup, 20 Years Later. popularresistance.org On April 11, 2002, Venezuela's democratically elected government, headed by Hugo Chávez Frías, was ousted in a military coup d'etat. Then, dramatically, two days later, the coup was overturned by a mass mobilization of Venezuelans. They demanded the restoration of democracy and the return of a government that appeared to be making good on its commitment to redistribute Venezuela's oil wealth to benefit the country's most marginalized sectors. These events led to lasting ramifications not just for Venezuela, but for Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole, paving the way for a "pink tide" of progressive movemen…

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