A USC study found that the United States has the highest drug overdose death rates among a set of high-income countries. The study found that drug overdose death rates in the United States are 3.5 times higher on average when compared to 17 other high-income counties. The study is the first to demonstrate that the drug overdose epidemic is contributing to the widening gap in life expectancy between the United States and other high-income countries.
В Институте социальных наук Иркутского государственного университета (ИСН ИГУ) открывается новое направление подготовки – программа бакалавриата "Социально-культурная деятельность", профиль "Менеджмент социально-культурной деятельности". Право на реализацию образовательного процесса университет получил в 2018 году, сообщает пресс-служба вуза.
Доцент факультета экономических и социальных наук РАНХиГС, эксперт по налоговой системе Алисен Алисенов в беседе с ФБА "Экономика сегодня" оценил пользу налога для самозанятых. Читать далее
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