Random charts - health equity

Source: What Can the Health Care Sector Do to Advance Health Equity? (52-pg PDF)

"A study says eliminating racial/ ethnic health disparities would reduce health care costs by $230 billion and indirect costs of excess disease and mortality by more than $1 trillion over four years."

Random charts - women

Source: Women in the Workplace 2019 (McKinsey)

Random charts - health disruption

Source: Six assumptions for measuring health disruption (14-pg PDF)

Random Charts - U.S. life

Source: Life Experiences and Income Inequality in the United States (26-pg PDF)

Random chart - carbon footprint

Source: The Global Disparity in Carbon Footprints

Random charts - Kashmir

August 5th blog entry 'Kashmir... again'

 

Source: Kashmir: Background, Recent Developments, and U.S. Policy (15-pg CRS PDF)

Random charts - racial wealth gap

Source: The economic impact of closing the racial wealth gap 19-pg PDF)

Random charts - mass shootings

Source: U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center Report: Mass Attacks in Public Spaces 2018 (15-pg PDF)

Rinse and repeat - El Paso

April 2013's blog entry 'Anatomy of an Incident' listed the various stages that appear to routinely occur/play out after every mass shooting incident:

I. The Horror

II. The Coverage

III.  The Political Parade

IV. The Prohibition

V. The Search for a Hero

VI. The Search for a Reason

VII.  The Outpouring

VIII.  The Lionization

IX. The Debunking

X. Never Again!

XI. The Calls for Legislation

XII. Descent into Farce

XIII. The Fade-Out

XIV. The Next Horror

The recent outrages in El Paso and Dayton appear to be following the same well-worn 'script' although we have not yet reached the final stages (XII, XIII), as clearly demonstrated in the media and social media coverage:

Perhaps some day society will break out of this farcical cycle and things will actually change... This is devoutly to be hoped for!