US Tariffs, Sigh!

[JBurton]

I saw plenty of articles claiming trump has been fact checked about the 40 and 40. but our college campuses have 3 remedial reading classes and 3 remedial math classes. facts be facts that factcheckers can't explain.

Oh, I think that may have something to do with the lower scoring states, AR included, bringing down the 'average' level of education. I hear up north in them big cities, kids can read and write by the time they get to college. So in theory, for every idiot you see walking across campus in TX, you could assume there were two non-idiots walking across a campus in another state. I mean a state other than AR at least...

 

[John Miller]

"The OECD measures education outcomes based on the educational attainment, skills and years in education. OECD’s member countries include Sweden, France, Turkey, South Korea and Colombia. Its data included 37 to 41 countries, depending on when it was collected and which countries participated.

The U.S. ranks eighth out of 41 countries in the portion of people with at least a secondary, or high school, education, with 92% of its people aged 25 to 65 holding a diploma"

That isn't just making up a number and continuing to repeat the lie until his mass of lemmings believe it's true.

 

[ikarasu]

"The OECD measures education outcomes based on the educational attainment, skills and years in education. OECD’s member countries include Sweden, France, Turkey, South Korea and Colombia. Its data included 37 to 41 countries, depending on when it was collected and which countries participated.

The U.S. ranks eighth out of 41 countries in the portion of people with at least a secondary, or high school, education, with 92% of its people aged 25 to 65 holding a diploma"

That isn't just making up a number and continuing to repeat the lie until his mass of lemmings believe it's true.

If you show up for school for 12 years...you get that high school education. It's impossible to fail now- you can be in college and not know how to read a single word...write a single word, or even know addition... Because as a society we (Canada as well as America) Decided failing someone is worst for them than passing them.

According to stats... 21% of USA Adults are illiterate. These are stats from 2022... But 54% of adults are below a 6th grade level?! If these stats are accurate, its pretty sad. The stats on OECD Match the below stats, however theyre in a graph so harder to copy.

I'm sure there is a lot of wasted money in the education system, but I still think giving everyone a free pass is whats hurting kids education...

Literacy Data and its impact on the Nation

• Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children
• 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022
• 54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level
• 45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level

Literacy Data and its impact in the classroom

• Approximately 40% of students across the nation cannot read at a basic level.
• Almost 70% of low-income fourth grade students cannot read at a basic level.
• 49% of 4th graders eligible for free and reduced-price meals finished below “Basic” on the NAEP reading test.

[Edit] Funny enough... California is the highest state of illiteracy And if worldpopulationreview is accurate... 34% of the non literate adults are non white, non usa born people (Not sure if it only counts citizens, or also counts illegals).

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy-rates-by-state

 

[davideagles]

We are a Canadian business and import into the US and buy from the US. This is both directly and indirectly through customers, distributors and suppliers.

How are Canadian and US businesses handling the new challenges?

I suppose we can add the additional Chinese tariffs into the thread as well.

I'm sure this will become slightly politically charged but this is not the goal of this thread. I'm hoping for a discussion that provides pragmatic and practical observations.


James

The recent U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods (25%) and energy products (10%) have led Canada to impose counter-tariffs of 25% on U.S. imports, adding further complexity to cross-border trade.

 

[ProSignTN]

we already fund public education and we are ranked 40th out of 40 countries.

And Zelensky started the war!

 

[ProSignTN]

"We should get our news from only one source"

 

[ProSignTN]

Has your local Park Ranger been terminated yet, mine has. He loved his country and loved his job. But he's been musked.

 

[Johnny Best]

Has your local Park Ranger been terminated yet, mine has. He loved his country and loved his job. But he's been musked.

Thats because he never caught Yogib ear and Bobo with picnic baskets.

 

[Stacey K]

Much of the decline in grades is due to the decline in our culture. Video games, phones, divorce, lack of eating dinner as a family each night, sense of entitlement, parents sticking up for kids instead of teachers. Some of it of course is the curriculum or - lack-there-of - the basics. I couldn't help my 5th grader with math because it made zero sense to me. Thankfully YouTube taught me so I could help them.

I believe strongly in parents taking some responsibility for their kids education. The parent doesn't have to be smart or rich. They just have to allow creativity and provide the ability to problem solve. Better to play with Lincoln Logs, Legos and mud puddles than buy your child a PS5. They need to learn to entertain themselves, problem solve and have an attention span longer than a TikTok video...

 

[MNT_Printhead]

Are we talking about a certain level of schooling like 3rd grade, 11th grade, secondary education or total schooling in general ?? Are some subjects measured differently from each other or is it all lumped together ?? Does population sizes have anything to do with these numbers ??

You measure from the base of the shaft, duh!

 

[guillermo]

Taiwan is NOT part of China. It is where the Chinese royal family escaped the Communist insurrection. (Funny, that word. On January 6, 2021 it was viewed as a bad thing and the "insurrectionists" needed to be hunted down and locked up for a long time. But here we have leftists saying that the insurrection is the rightful owner of China and nearby islands).

if Taiwan is not part of China, what is it then?...... members of the UN are countries, why Taiwan is not part of the UN?, because is not a country.

 

[BigNate]

if Taiwan is not part of China, what is it then?...... members of the UN are countries, why Taiwan is not part of the UN?, because is not a country.

not every nation on the planet is a member of the UN - even the USA is talking about leaving it..... but membership in the UN is NOT a pre-requisite for being a country.

 

[unclebun]

if Taiwan is not part of China, what is it then?...... members of the UN are countries, why Taiwan is not part of the UN?, because is not a country.

It is a country which Communist China claims is not a separate country due to their imperialist designs. The "world" (UN, IOC, etc.), now being afraid of China since they have all sold their souls to China and are owned by China, are playing along pretending that China is right. It wasn't that way only a few decades ago.

It's kind of funny that you believe Taiwan is part of Communist China, since it's all part of their imperialist design. Yet, being liberal, you probably believe that colonialism is bad and everybody should decolonize, imperialism is bad because it led to colonialization, and so on. Yet you defend the one country in the world that is imperialist.

 

[JamesLam]

Has your local Park Ranger been terminated yet, mine has. He loved his country and loved his job. But he's been musked.

Funny how Canada has not fessed up to the Musk connection.

 

[JamesLam]

OK, so things have gone off topic a bit.

Everyone here will be affected by the tariffs in one way or another, both personally and in regards to business. Knowing that we may be facing commodity prices and availability among other challenges, what are some of the strategies, whether based in the US, Canada, Mexico or elsewhere, we can utilize going forward?