Deindustrialization as historic trend. Why CHIPS investments go to places with the right workforce. Falling birth rates and the Trieste model of mental health.
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Pablo O'Higgins (1904 - 1983), “Electricista”, 1953.
American politics and society have a VERY hard time coming to terms with the basic logic of this graph!
Source: Michael Strain Aspen Economic Strategy Group
How the structure of the US labour market professionalized.
Source: David Deming, Christopher Ong, Lawrence H. Summers in Aspen Economic Strategy Group
When it comes to public construction, the USA is almost European in its cost structure
Source: Economics
If Bidenomics--CHIPS investments work, it may well be that they follow the grain of regional success in both employment and education rather than pushing against those trends.
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Detail from the “Struggle Against Racial Discrimination,” painted by Pablo O’Higgins in 1945 for the Ship Scalers Union hall. Photo: Oscar Rosales Castañeda.
The rise in childlessness amongst Americans of prime parenting age is driving the decline in US birth rates.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Pablo O'Higgins (American, 1904–1983), “Armando El Castillo”, 1954Bull
Source: El Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City
Japan has been highly successful a bringing down the suicide rate with a policy of institutionalized mental health care.
Italy - especially in form of Trieste model - relies on more intensive psychiatric provision but minimal institutionalization.
For many policymakers, Trieste represents the ultimate achievement of community-focused care. The small Italian city has had an outsized impact on international thinking about how to care for mentally ill people, thanks in large part to Franco Basaglia, who took over as director of its psychiatric hospital in 1971. Roberto Mezzina, who retired as director of the Trieste system five years ago, worked with Basaglia early in his career. He says his old mentor’s guiding tenet was that people with mental health problems must be respected as citizens with rights, not people whose condition placed them beyond the social pale. Basaglia often spoke of “putting the illness in parentheses”, says Mezzina. “That doesn’t mean deny the illness. That means put it aside for a moment and look at the person, then you can better understand the illness in the context of the person’s whole life.” While a number of other developed countries, such as the US and the UK, also opted to close many large mental health hospitals, the result was often a sharp reduction in the overall resources available for mental health care. In Trieste, the money released by closing the city’s 1,200-bed asylum almost 50 years ago went into strengthening community services. Alessandra Oretti, acting director of a psychiatric service whose remit covers about 360,000 people in Trieste and the neighbouring province of Gorizia, says this was the most important element in realising Basaglia’s vision. Suicides fell from 25 per 100,000 people between 1990 and 1996, to 13 in 100,000 between 2005 and 2011.
Source: Financial Times
Pablo O’Higgins, Source: Munae
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