Brittain33
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« on: September 28, 2014, 08:06:02 AM » |
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I heard the other day that the AIDS crisis in Africa has receded significantly and is affecting fewer people. I think retrovirals are becoming much more widely available.
As Clarko said, violence rates in the U.S. are plunging, taking with it incarceration rates and death rates among young people. Kevin Drum makes a convincing case that this is due to the rise and fall of leaded gasoline. Similarly, rates of teenage pregnancy and abortion in the U.S. have both fallen.
The renaissance of cities in the U.S. is stunning to anyone who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s and remembers cities as places people escaped from, not couldn't afford to move to. The return to cities lets us leverage older investments in infrastructure and transportation, and improve overall productivity and opportunity simply by bringing people in close proximity.
Parallel to that is the drop in drivers license ownership and car ownership among young people.
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