Half Of Typical US Family's Paycheck Swallowed By Housing, Childcare

Switzerland Has The Highest 'Minimum Wage' In The World Minimum wages vary widely around the world, but comparing headline wage rates alone can obscure how much workers can actually buy with them. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, compares monthly minimum wages using 2024 data from the International Labour Organization. Figures are expressed in purchasing power parity (PPP)-adjusted U.S. dollars, making wages more comparable based on what they can buy locally. Where no single national minimum exists, ILOSTAT uses other applicable wage floors to make comparisons across countries. The Countries With the Highest...

Ideological Insanity Has Gotten Way Way Worse In The UK... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A major exam board has now signed off on gender-neutral language in GCSE French, Spanish and German exams – despite the terms being completely alien to how those languages are actually spoken in their home countries. The move, buried in new specifications for 2026 exams, hands students the green light to ditch standard masculine and feminine forms in favour of made-up “inclusive” pronouns, nouns and adjectives. Yes, you read that right. They’re letting students make up their...

Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza City on Tuesday held a mass funeral for 112 members of the Abu Sharia al-Hassaina family, a well-known and respected clan that has been nearly wiped out by Israel’s genocidal war, the Palestinian news agency WAFA has reported. The bodies of the 112 Palestinians mourned on Tuesday were recovered from […]