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Average household incomes for UK pensioners are reducing each year due to harmful government reforms and the Bank of England’s monetary policies
Ros Altmann argues for supporting pensioners who have been negatively impacted by monetary and fiscal policy since 2008. She highlights the distributional inequities of the Bank of England’s policies in dealing with the economy and calls for more consideration for pensioners who are seeing their savings dwindle
On the structure of finite level and \omega-decomposable Borel functions
We give a full description of the structure under inclusion of all finite
level Borel classes of functions, and provide an elementary proof of the
well-known fact that not every Borel function can be written as a countable
union of \Sigma^0_\alpha-measurable functions (for every fixed 1 \leq \alpha <
\omega_1). Moreover, we present some results concerning those Borel functions
which are \omega-decomposable into continuous functions (also called countably
continuous functions in the literature): such results should be viewed as a
contribution towards the goal of generalizing a remarkable theorem of Jayne and
Rogers to all finite levels, and in fact they allow us to prove some restricted
forms of such generalizations. We also analyze finite level Borel functions in
terms of composition of simpler functions, and we finally present an
application to Banach space theory.Comment: 31 pages, 2 figures, revised version, accepted for publication on the
Journal of Symbolic Logi
Trends in teenage pregnancy in England and Wales: how can we explain them?
Teenage pregnancy is associated with adverse social and physical outcomes for both mother and child. We drew on
various sources-birth and abortion statistics from the Office for National Statistics, data from the National Survey
of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, and routinely collected data from family planning clinics-to identify trends in
England and Wales and their possible determinants.
The rate of teenage sexual activity has increased steadily and consistently over the past four decades, whilst the
rate of teenage fertility has shown greater variation. When the teenage fertility rate is calculated against the
denominator of sexually active women, rather than the total sample of teenage women, the underlying trend in
teenage fertility over the past four decades has been downwards, though not consistently so. Fluctuations in the
teenage fertility rate seem to track intervention-related factors such as access to, and use of, contraceptive
services and the general climate surrounding the sexual health of young people
Staff training in integrated sexual health services
Coordination of family planning and GUM services has
the potential to boost the effectiveness of bot
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