Colleges in small towns do fall victim to the wages of the town.
Small towns are small for a reason. Make nothing have nothing.
So the kids getting out of the colleges are not learning for the changes
in the job skills They are hitting that wall of change.
And their wages are lower pushing into a future dead end job they more likely
worked at getting through college for it. And so paying the college debt is also low
making a hard time for small town colleges. Many are closing!
Ending in many not getting their education or a half ass education.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/13/spate-recent-college-closures-has-some-seeing-long-predicted-consolidation-taking
Health care is also a issue everywhere. Small town people mostly can't afford to use
their insurance if they have it. The sabotaging or the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is
leaving many poor to not have insurance or to get junk policies or a stressed
state program that does not cover their health care needs. So their health is lower.
Is it any wonder? I am not surprised! You can not expect success with a foundation
of poor or just people loosing their best interest from voting that way or from the
others voting that way, the few that like their suffering and expect you to do the same.
Anyway way you see it, it is a good thing to fail. Being you can't have the good
without the bad. Low funded people, unhealthy, uneducated is a labor force
nightmare that will have to be changed. People not tolerating loosing their best
interest mostly because of how it effects others their family making candidates
for child abuse. Well these are changing times the stupid is being pushed out or
following natural selection it takes care of itself! It all will have to be fixed or...
~~~~~U.S. Drops To 27th In The World For Education And Health Care
The United States is ranked 27th globally on education and health care, a new study
based on 2016 data reports.
The study, organized by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, seeks to identify “the number of productive years an individual in each country can be expected to work between the ages of 20 to 64,” based on education and health care. This number is referred to as the “human capital” of a nation’s people.
America’s human capital measurement is 23 years, that’s the amount of time a person can be expected to work at peak productivity when accounting for life expectancy, general health and education. The U.S. ranked sixth in the world in 1990, and the drop apparently took researchers by surprise.
“The decline of human capital in the United States was one of the biggest surprises in our study,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, director of IHME.
The study shows that China has had the opposite trajectory since 1990, going from 69th in the world to 44th.
Finland landed in the top with 28.4 years, followed by Iceland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Taiwan. At the bottom was Niger at less than 1.6 years of human capital.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/whelp-the-us-now-ranks-27th-in-the-world-on-education-and-healthcare_us_5bae5d02e4b0425e3c23508f
~~~~~Measuring human capital: a systematic analysis of 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016
METHODS
We generated a period measure of expected human capital, defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status using rates specific to each time period, age, and sex for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016. We estimated educational attainment using 2,522 censuses and household surveys; we based learning estimates on 1,894 tests among school-aged children; and we based functional health status on the prevalence of seven health conditions, which were taken from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016). Mortality rates specific to location, age, and sex were also taken from GBD 2016.
FINDINGS
In 2016, Finland had the highest level of expected human capital of 28.4 health-, education-, and learning-adjusted expected years lived between age 20 and 64 years (95% uncertainty interval 27.5–29.2); Niger had the lowest expected human capital of less than 1.6 years (0.98–2.6). In 2016, 44 countries had already achieved more than 20 years of expected human capital; 68 countries had expected human capital of less than 10 years. Of 195 countries, the 10 most populous countries in 2016 for expected human capital were ranked: China at 44, India at 158, USA at 27, Indonesia at 131, Brazil at 71, Pakistan at 164, Nigeria at 171, Bangladesh at 161, Russia at 49, and Mexico at 104. Assessment of change in expected human capital from 1990 to 2016 shows marked variation from less than two years of progress in 18 countries to more than five years of progress in 35 countries. Larger improvements in expected human capital appear to be associated with faster economic growth. The top quartile of countries in terms of absolute change in human capital from 1990 to 2016 had a median annualized growth in gross domestic product of 2.60% (IQR 1.85–3.69) compared with 1.45% (0.18–2.19) in the bottom quartile.
