Nurses comprise the greatest number of health care workers in the United States, with close to 2.7 million registered nurses serving nationwide. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that nursing is expected to be one of the fastest-growing professions at about 19 percent annually from 2011 to 2022. As this growth rate increases, a […]
“Readiness is a central and defining dynamic of effective combat power”, Hagel tells troops in Baghdad
Secretary of Defense Chick Hagel arrived in Baghdad, Iraq on December 9, 2014 under tight security, during which he visited troops and took questions from soldiers stationed there on many subjects. Including one question in particular from a rather insightful young military intelligence officer (from Kansas city, Missouri) who asked about a host of questions including the transition from Afghanistan, […]
100,000 people still have dangerously inadequate access to emergency medical care in Jonglei
Medecin’s san Frontiers (MSF) a medical humanitarian organization operating the region of Jonglei, South Sudan confirmed that 100,000 people still have dangerously inadequate access to emergency medical care. “almost three weeks after the latest mass movement into the bush to escape violence in South Sudan’s southern Jonglei state, the aid response remains far from meeting […]
South Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis in the World’s Newest Country
Written by Onnik Krikorian This post is part of our special coverage South Sudan Referendum 2011. Less than a year since declaring its independence in July 2011 to become the world’s newest country, South Sudan continues to face a humanitarian crisis. Civil war between the African South Sudan and the Arabic North, Sudan, had already claimed […]
Sanusi’s CBN and Naira devaluation
CBN and Naira devaluation: Public Good, Double Talk and Contradictory Policy. It is beginning to look that Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the executive governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is stepping into a pathway of perplexing contradictions. At the time that International Monetary Fund (IMF) recommended for Nigeria to devalue naira, Sanusi was insisting that […]
An Economic Recovery Plan that Would Actually Work
Where are American jobs? Politicians keep talking about them, but can we really expect to see them? Tax cuts have been proposed by the right and stimulus measures have been proposed by the left — but neither of these will have any meaningful, positive effect on our economy. We can no longer continue the status […]