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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium China suspends report on youth unemployment, which was at record high - The Straits Times    SEOUL – The Chinese government, facing an expected seventh consecutive monthly increase in youth unemployment, said on Tuesday that it had suspended release of the information. The unemployment rate among 16- to 24-year-olds in urban areas hit 21.3 per cent, a record, in June and has risen every month in 2023. It was widely forecast by economists to have climbed further in July. Mr Fu Linghui, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics, said at a news briefing that the government would stop making public employment information “for youth and other age groups”. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � What to Know About Niger's Coup - Foreign Policy    In the weeks since Niger's democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, was ousted in a coup, concern has mounted globally over the potential for deadly conflict to sweep West Africa—particularly as the Economic Community of West African States, chaired by Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, has threatened military intervention and, as of Thursday, ordered a "standby force" to restore order to Niger. In this edition of Flash Points, we examine the domestic, regional, and global impacts of Niger's coup—and explore how it might shape the future of geopolitics in Africa. Continued here What the Best Places in America Have in Common - The Atlantic    When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty” in 1964, the nation didn’t have any method of counting the poor, or even a firm notion of how poverty should be defined. His administration scrambled to come up with a measure to chart progress. The gauge, it was later decided, would be the minimum income needed for a family of three or more to put food on the table multiplied by three (at the time, food constituted a third of the typical family budget). Income is one vital indicator of well-being, but it is not the only one: Things like health outcomes and social mobility matter too. That’s why we should shift our focus from poverty to disadvantage. Disadvantage is a more useful term than poverty because we aren’t just talking about income—we’re trying to capture the complexity of a person’s life chances being hindered by multiple circumstances. Disadvantage is more accurate because it implies an injustice. People are being held back—unfairly. Disadvantage cannot be understood at the individual or family level alone. Thanks to social-science research, we now know that children’s life chances are profoundly affected by their context—not only income and family circumstances but also their community—more so than by their genetic profile or the medical care they receive. Continued here

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