STUMP - Death and Taxes with Meep - Podcast

Video DescriptionOne element that sets actuaries apart from related professions is our strict adherence to professionalism standards. Unlike the broad classification of "data scientists," we actuaries may sometimes perceive our precepts and actuarial standards as constraints limiting new technologies' full potential.Using recent releases by the American Academy of Actuaries, the Society of Actuaries, and the Casualty Actuarial Society, I (Mary Pat Campbell) explore how actuaries can uphold these

Recently, the Chicago Teachers Union took a little field trip to Springfield, Illinois to lobby for a bunch of goodies. Too bad that Illinois can’t really afford all the stuff it already promised in the past, as taxpayers scatter to other states. Episode LinksWSJ editorial: The Chicago Teachers Union Plays HookyThe Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) professes to care about students, but the lessons it cares most about are political. On Wednesday hundreds of teachers played hooky and abandoned their

Here’s the final fundraising graph: Totalled $2300 for 2023Movember swag!Racial gap for prostate cancerSuicide and soldiers11 Dec 2023 at The National Pulse: Suicide Is Consistently Killing More U.S. Soldiers Than Anything Else, Including War.Suicide accounted for just under 40 percent of United States active military deaths as of December 2022, according to the Defense Casualty Analysis System, which found that U.S. military suicide rates have dramatically increased over the past several