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Geographic inequalities in health and mortality in the United States have grown substantially in recent years. Mortality rates vary across and within regions, states, counties, neighborhoods, and the rural-urban continuum. Mortality trends also vary by race/ethnicity and cause of death and have been particularly adverse for working-age adults without a 4-year college degree over the past couple of decades. This is due largely to increases in drug overdoses, alcohol-related deaths, suicides, and metabolic diseases and to a stagnation in cardiovascular disease mortality rates that had been decli...

Graduate student workers have not had a university-wide wage increase since 2014 while tuition fees and living expenses have continued to rise.

Written by Sig Silber The EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers want to revise the definion of "Waters of the United States" (WOTUS). I guess that will happen now with every change of Administraton. NOAA says we may have a short revisit of La Nina this winter. Crop production continues to look good but not as good as recently. The weather may be catching up with it. In addition to the usual Crop Progress Report, there is an Executive Briefing that covers a number of crops but focuses on wheat. See our latest video in our weekly education program on sustainable agriculture. It is another long on...