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...labor force. In February, the government announced that the number of people on welfare rose 60% over the last 10 years, reaching 1 million citizens for the first time since the program started in 1950. And according to recent findings by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 15% of Japan's households today are living in poverty (defined as having incomes that are half the national average or less). That compares with an average of 10% of households below the poverty line for all 30 OECD countries. In wealthy Scandinavia, the average is less than 5%. Japan...
...That really took some initiative to line up and go do,” said Lewis of Xu’s work at the OECD...
Currently Xu is spending the semester abroad in Paris, where he is working as a research intern at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and taking two art classes...
...score is a skeleton to be locked firmly in the closet, one might be forgiven for thinking math is pretty easy. Yet beware! For amongst you—in every pore of the social fabric—lurk the mathematically disinclined. A recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) survey serves to remind the forgetful just how awful Americans are at math. The U.S. came in 24th out of the 29 OECD countries ranked...
...problem is clearly not a question of the bulk spending of money—according to the OECD study, America outspends the Czechs by three to one, yet the Czechs still beat the U.S. by 33 points in math—but it couldn’t hurt. The benefits of being a math teacher, of course, could not possibly compare with the benefits of the numerous other options open to those with the necessary mathematical knowledge. Ironically, these options are made possible only by the incredible flourishing of the sectors requiring the very math skills that our students seem...