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Higher quality of life for their children

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Higher quality of life for their children

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•Provide better health care for their children.
•More likely to save money for their children to go to college.

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•Are more open to new ideas.
•Have more advanced levels or moral reasoning.

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•Career versatility and mobility -college graduates have greater ability to move from one position to another.(college graduates have more job options.)
•Career autonomy-college graduates have more opportunity to work independently (without supervision)and make their own an the job decisions.

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A strong economic recovery depends on effective and sustained containment of Covid-19, economists said in the latest monthly survey by The Wall Street Journal, with 91% of business and academic economists agreeing "somewhat" or "strongly" that economic recovery depends on containing the pandemic.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Trump administration is working with the Senate to pass a new bill for coronavirus-related economic aid by the end of July, as enhanced unemployment benefits near expiration.

New applications for unemployment benefits edged lower last week and the number receiving payments fell to the lowest level since mid-April, signs the labor market is healing.

The former vice president is expected to outline a proposal that his campaign says is aimed at reviving the U.S. economy with an America-centric approach to job creation and manufacturing.

The Federal Reserve's $600 billion lending program for medium-size businesses hasn't attracted much interest yet, but that is likely to change if the U.S. economy takes a turn for the worse amid rising coronavirus cases, said the official who runs the program.

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic said Wednesday some data suggests the U.S. economy's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic-induced recession may be stalling as some parts of the country appear to not have handled reopening efforts as well as they could have.

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WSJ - Economics News, Breaking News Headlines and Analysis

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A strong economic recovery depends on effective and sustained containment of Covid-19, economists said in the latest monthly survey by The Wall Street Journal, with 91% of business and academic economists agreeing "somewhat" or "strongly" that economic recovery depends on containing the pandemic.21 hours ago The worst effects of the coronavirus on global oil demand have passed but will continue to echo as the market slowly recovers in the second half of 2020, the International Energy Agency said.

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•More social self-confidence.
•Better leaderships skills

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Men, Women & the Social Benefits of Laughter

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Men, Women & the Social Benefits of Laughter

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•Greater knowledge of current events.
•Less likely to be incarcerated.

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Todd Snider - "A Timeless Response To Current Events"

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Higher quality of life for their children

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Why Go to University? Students Give Reasons and Share Benefits

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A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Economics.

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•Have lower rates of smoking and obesity.
•Live longer and healthier lives

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Regular physical activity is one of the most important things you can do for your health. Being physically active can improve your brain health, help manage weight, reduce the risk of disease, strengthen bones and muscles, and improve your ability to do everyday activities.

Adults who sit less and do any amount of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity gain some health benefits. Only a few lifestyle choices have as large an impact on your health as physical activity.

Everyone can experience the health benefits of physical activity - age, abilities, ethnicity, shape, or size do not matter.

Immediate Benefits

Some benefits of physical activity on brain health [PDF-14.4MB] happen right after a session of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Benefits include improved thinking or cognition for children 6 to 13 years of age and reduced short-term feelings of anxiety for adults. Regular physical activity can help keep your thinking, learning, and judgment skills sharp as you age. It can also reduce your risk of depression and anxiety and help you sleep better.

Both eating patterns and physical activity routines play a critical role in weight management. You gain weight when you consume more calories through eating and drinking than the amount of calories you burn, including those burned during physical activity.

To maintain your weight: Work your way up to 150 minutes a week of moderate physical activity, which could include dancing or yard work. You could achieve the goal of 150 minutes a week with 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week.

People vary greatly in how much physical activity they need for weight management. You may need to be more active than others to reach or maintain a healthy weight.

To lose weight and keep it off: You will need a high amount of physical activity unless you also adjust your eating patterns and reduce the amount of calories you're eating and drinking. Getting to and staying at a healthy weight requires both regular physical activity and healthy eating.

See more information about:

Haven't Been Active in a While?

See these tips on getting started.

Reduce Your Health Risk

The good news [PDF-14.5MB] is that moderate physical activity, such as brisk walking, is generally safe for most people.

Cardiovascular Disease

Heart disease and stroke are two leading causes of death in the United States. Getting at least 150 minutes a week of moderate physical activity can put you at a lower risk for these diseases. You can reduce your risk even further with more physical activity. Regular physical activity can also lower your blood pressure and improve your cholesterol levels.

Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

Regular physical activity can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is some combination of too much fat around the waist, high blood pressure, low high-density lipoproteins (HDL) cholesterol, high triglycerides, or high blood sugar. People start to see benefits at levels from physical activity even without meeting the recommendations for 150 minutes a week of moderate physical activity. Additional amounts of physical activity seem to lower risk even more.

Infectious Diseases

Physical activity may help reduce the risk of serious outcomes from infectious diseases, including COVID-19, the flu, and pneumonia. For example:

People who do little or no physical activity are more likely to get very sick from COVID-19 than those who are physically active. A CDC systematic review [PDF-931KB] found that physical activity is associated with a decrease in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, while inactivity increases that risk.

People who are more active may be less likely to die from flu or pneumonia. A CDC study found that adults who meet the aerobic and muscle-strengthening physical activity guidelines are about half as likely to die from flu and pneumonia as adults who meet neither guideline.

Some Cancers

Being physically active lowers your risk for developing several common cancers. Adults who participate in greater amounts of physical activity have reduced risks of developing cancers of the:

Bladder

Breast

Colon (proximal and distal)

Endometrium

Esophagus (adenocarcinoma)

Kidney

Lung

Stomach (cardia and non-cardia adenocarcinoma)

If you are a cancer survivor, getting regular physical activity not only helps give you a better quality of life, but also improves your physical fitness.

Strengthen Your Bones and Muscles

As you age, it's important to protect your bones, joints, and muscles - they support your body and help you move. Keeping bones, joints, and muscles healthy can help ensure that you're able to do your daily activities and be physically active.

Muscle-strengthening activities like lifting weights can help you increase or maintain your muscle mass and strength. This is important for older adults who experience reduced muscle mass and muscle strength with aging. Slowly increasing the amount of weight and number of repetitions you do as part of muscle strengthening activities will give you even more benefits, no matter your age.

Improve Your Ability to do Daily Activities and Prevent Falls

Everyday activities include climbing stairs, grocery shopping, or playing with your grandchildren. Being unable to do everyday activities is called a functional limitation. Physically active middle-aged or older adults have a lower risk of functional limitations than people who are inactive.

For older adults, doing a variety of physical activity improves physical function and decreases the risk of falls or injury from a fall. Include physical activities such as aerobic, muscle strengthening, and balance training. Multicomponent physical activity can be done at home or in a community setting as part of a structured program.

Hip fracture is a serious health condition that can result from a fall. Breaking a hip have life-changing negative effects, especially if you're an older adult. Physically active people have a lower risk of hip fracture than inactive people.

Increase Your Chances of Living Longer

See physical activity recommendations for different groups, including:

An estimated 110,000 deaths per year could be prevented if US adults ages 40 and older increased their moderate-to-vigorous physical activity by a small amount. Even 10 minutes more a day would make a difference.

Taking more steps a day also helps lower the risk of premature death from all causes. For adults younger than 60, the risk of premature death leveled off at about 8,000 to 10,000 steps per day. For adults 60 and older, the risk of premature death leveled off at about 6,000 to 8,000 steps per day.

Manage Chronic Health Conditions & Disabilities

Regular physical activity can help people manage existing chronic conditions and disabilities. For example, regular physical activity can:

Connect with Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity

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Regular physical activity improves your brain health, helps with weight management, reduces disease, strengthens bones and muscles, and improves your ability to do everyday activities. Learn more.

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The Classroom | Empowering Students in Their College Journey

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How do we think and understand? Looking at specific intellectual skills that define our thought processes and ideas can answer that question and give insight into the human mind. Intellectual skills are defined as the methods an individual can use to evaluate or organize information and data. In the 1950s, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom created a model of intellectual skills that defined abilities such as application, analysis and synthesis as building on basic knowledge. Since then, different psychologists have used multiple models and approaches to understand intellectual skills. However, a few types of skills, such as problem solving, are commonly used in a wide variety of intellectual disciplines.

Knowledge and Understanding

Learning about intellectual skills is often distilled down into Bloom's Taxonomy. It is likely you have studied or applied Bloom's ideas in school or at work. In Bloom's system, the most basic forms of intellectual skills were defined as knowledge and comprehension. Knowledge is defined as the ability to memorize and reproduce information. Comprehension builds on knowledge and is the ability to understand what memorized information means. For example, memorizing that two plus two equals four is a use of knowledge as a skill. However, knowing that two of an object plus two of an object equals four of an object is comprehension or the simple understanding what the parts of the formula mean.

Critical Thinking

One commonly recognized intellectual skill is critical thinking, which is the ability to analyze and interpret information to assess its context and validity. This can include multiple specific skills: asking questions about information, comparing material to known information and drawing connections between information and its context to for analysis.

Bias

Checking for intellectual bias is an important aspect of critical thinking. Some psychologists connect critical thinking to an additional intellectual skill of determining if a preconceived bias in present. This is sometimes referred to as disinterested scholarship: the ability to distance oneself from material or information being presented to evaluate its validity.

Problem Solving

Another set of intellectual skills is problem solving. Where critical thinking involves analyzing and evaluating information, problem solving involves an individual using intellectual skills to solve situations she is not familiar with. Psychologists have connected multiple intellectual skills to problem solving: analyzing the problem, using information to come up with potential solutions and testing solutions empirically. Other skills related to problem solving include setting goals and planning different ways to approach the problem. In each case, these skills involve relating the information of the problem to multiple sets of known information and finding a way to creatively synthesize that information with the problem; this makes problem solving one of the most complex forms of intellectual skills.

Creative Skills

While problem solving and critical thinking involve using intellectual skills to understand and solve exterior information, intellectual skills can also be used creatively. In fact, some 21st century educational psychologists have modified Bloom's taxonomy to show creating as the most developed intellectual skill. Different intellectual skills connected with creativity involve synthesis. When combining multiple sources of information and fluency, the ability to create quickly from limited information comes from that synthesis. Originality, the skill to create distinctive solutions, and flexibility, the skill to alter and revise information given changing circumstances, are also important skills in the creative process.

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Hidden Consequences: The Impact of Incarceration on Dependent Children

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•higher levels of self-esteem.

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Achieve Higher Levels of Self Esteem with Honesty

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Pets model for us a simplified way of being. They do not stress about bills or diagnoses. Sometimes their only item on the to-do list is to accomplish a nap in the sunlight. As humans and caregivers, we have more responsibilities that need to be taken care of, but that doesn't mean we cannot learn from the powerful model of taking time to move slowly, rest peacefully, and act joyfully.

Go to any aisle at your local pet store and, no matter what type of animal you have, you'll find a selection of appropriate toys or ways to engage in food and exercise for your pet. Pets love to play! They remind us that there is a fun-filled enjoyment outside of necessary work and survival. Sometimes that means exercising the mind with a puzzle type activity, sometimes it means exhausting the body physically, sometimes it means throwing a ball or batting around a spunky spool of yarn, or sometimes it is hiding in a leafy aquarium prop. Watching and interacting with our pets in these types of play remind us that we also need ways to blow off steam and lighten our mood with no pressure play and exercise.

Since pets cannot speak our language and vice versa, we must rely on deeper forms of communication. Animals can help us bring awareness to our energy and emotional exchange, if we pay attention. I might have a hard time recognizing my own anxiety, but I can see it full force when my dog's hackles are raised and he is bouncing around the window excitedly as a neighbor walks down the street. Animals mirror to us our emotional states, and by building a stable relationship together we learn ways to connect and impact that does not rely solely on words.

Animals offer a bond that everyone needs to experience on some level. This is one reason they can be used in some types of therapeutic services. In their simple way of being and their ability to live fully in the present moment, animals offer us a gift of unconditional joy. Abraham Maslow, in his hierarchy of needs, did not discount the fact that humans have a real need to experience love and belonging. Not all people are able to find this type of connection in family or friends or romantic companions for various reasons. Pets can offer an opportunity to experience healing and retribution of the ability to love and belong through their unencumbered reliance on their caregivers.

During this pandemic, many animal shelters across the nation are experiencing difficulties caring for the usual volume of homeless animals. Many more animals have been surrendered because their caregivers have become ill or are unable to continue care during these times of uncertainty. Many local shelters are offering foster-to-adopt programs which both aids the shelter in caring for pets as well as offering caregivers an opportunity to take home a pet on a sort of trial basis before committing to adoption.

The National Humane Society offers a great FAQ section that addresses ways you can search for and assist your local animal shelters. In light of the pandemic crisis, many shelters are suspending adoption fees to remove the financial barrier for taking an animal into your care. If adopting is not a responsibility you are ready for, volunteering supplies is always a needed resource for animal shelters. There may even be some remote opportunities you could volunteer for, such as sharing adoptable animals through your social media or email connections for others to consider.

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