Expat Files – 04.08.18

Descriptions- EXPAT FILES SHOW #749- SUN, APR 08- (04-08-2018): #1- PERU: what’s wrong with it, what’s right with it? How do gringos and Expats make out living, and retiring there? #2- The Odebrecht payoffs: What the ass media (I mean mass media) is not telling you about the biggest corruption scandal in the history of Latin America. #3-Big city living …

DAVID MASCI – About one-fifth of adults globally have no formal schooling

In many parts of the world, particularly in poorer countries, attainment of even the most basic education is still far from universal. Indeed, roughly one-in-five adults (19%) around the globe have no formal schooling at all, according to a recent Pew Research Center report on education that also studied its relationship to religion. While virtually all adults in Europe (98%) …

Aleksandra Sandstrom – Faith on the Hill

The share of U.S. adults who describe themselves as Christians has been declining for decades, but the U.S. Congress is about as Christian today as it was in the early 1960s, according to a new analysis by Pew Research Center.1 Indeed, among members of the new, 115th Congress, 91% describe themselves as Christians. This is nearly the same percentage as in …