demography
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Tech Companies Allegedly Conspired to Game the H1-B Visa Lottery System
Tech companies have reportedly found a loophole in the highly coveted H1-B visa lottery system for prospective employees. The Biden Administration says they’ve found evidence that a small number of companies have joined together to exploit the H1-B lottery by entering foreign employees’ names numerous times to increase their chances of getting selected, The Wall…
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President Biden Signs Executive Order on Abortion Care as Access and Privacy Remain a Concern
President Joe Biden signed an executive order in an effort to protect access to reproductive health care services. This comes after the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade, ending the constitutional right to an abortion, effectively giving individual states more power to regulate abortion access.
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14 Ways to Achieve Immortality That Will Totally Work, I Swear
Ocean quahogs can live to be over 500 years old. These clammy arseholes spend centuries doing nothing but burrowing into the ocean floor and filtering algae out of sea water. People, on the other hand, only get like 78 years before we die! This is not fair. Personally, I live actively in defiance of death,…
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The Pandemic Has Torpedoed Life Expectancy Across the Globe, Study Finds
New research this week puts the enormous loss of life caused by the covid-19 pandemic into greater context. The study of 29 countries across Europe and North and South America found that nearly all experienced a reduction in life expectancy last year, while some countries had the largest drops seen since World War II.