Monday Links Posted on February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 by John C. Goodman Why is European life expectancy greater than in the US? It isn’t for old people. The higher death rate for the US young is because of drug overdoses, car accidents, drinking, and murder. (Noah @ #3) The reason for falling US fertility: non college educated women are not marrying non college educated men. (Noah @ #4) IRS now takes nearly two years to resolve stolen identity cases. Student achievement began declining around 2013, but these declines—both before and after the pandemic—were overwhelmingly driven by the bottom half of test takers.
