Blog posts with the tag "By the Numbers"

By The Numbers: 5 February 2024

By Shirl Kennedy  on 05.02.2024 11:35 am

7%

The percentage of "sexual and/or gender diverse (SGD)" adolescents who "may have at least one parent currently or previously serving in the US military, an estimated 133,000 youth nationwide," according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry -- Youth With Sexual or Gender-Diverse Identities and Military Connection: Recommendations to Optimize Clinical Care.

By the Numbers: 8 January 2024

By Shirl Kennedy  on 08.01.2024 11:11 am

68%

The percentage of active duty service members who are overweight, according to a recently published white paper by the American Security Project, a "nonpartisan organization created to educate the American public and the world about the changing nature of national security in the 21st Century". Other key findings in the white paper -- Combating Military Obesity: Stigma's Persistent Impact on Operational Readiness:

 

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