According to a new book, those attending church services more than weekly at age 20 have “a roughly seven-year greater life expectancy than their nonchurchgoing peers.” Church-going protects against alcohol, smoking, and drug abuse; and decreases the odds of depression by one-third.”
What happened to people in the extractive economies of coal and logging may now be happening to those in the tech economies. This may be the Black Swan — the one you didn’t see coming — not only for kids with a freshly minted degree in computer science, but for a President who has promised to “make America great again.”
Trump has been intervening unilaterally to aid his favored South American neighbors and signaled that he would skip the gathering aimed at resolving common economic and security challenges.