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Sunday November 23, 2014 5:54 AM
Consulting firm puts obesity cost at $2 trillion
The global cost of obesity has risen to $2 trillion annually — nearly as much as smoking or the combined impact of armed violence, war and terrorism, according to a report released by the McKinsey Global Institute consulting firm. The institute says 2.1 billion people — about 30 percent of the global population— are overweight or obese and that about 15 percent of health-care costs in developed economies are driven by it.
Nevada ranks highest in study of immigrants
A new Pew Research Center study shows that Nevada has the highest proportion of people who have entered the country illegally of any U.S. state, at 7.6 percent of its population. The study looked at illegal-immigration trends over a three-year period ending in 2012. The number of people who entered Nevada illegally fell by 20,000 over that period, according to the Pew analysis, but the state still had about 210,000. California and Texas ranked second and third, respectively.
Index rates treatment of LGBT employees
Wal-Mart improved its treatment of LGBT employees over the past year, nudging the world’s largest retailer closer to companies such as Apple and Goldman Sachs, the Human Rights Campaign said. Wal-Mart scored 90 out of 100, up from 80 last year, in HRC’s 2015 Corporate Equality Index, which judges companies on five benchmarks. Goldman Sachs and Apple were among the record-high 366 companies that scored 100 this year. Exxon Mobil scored a minus 25 in the report.
— From wire reports
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