by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 10, 2018 | News
More than 63,000 people died in the U.S. from drug overdose in 2016, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Dec. 21, 2017. This is an 11,000-death increase from 2015 and continues a 17-year trend that has now...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 9, 2018 | News
Nursing is seen as the most honest and ethical profession in the U.S., according to a recent Gallup survey, while highly positive views of clergy reached an all-time low. The survey asked U.S. adults to answer the following question about 22 professions: “Please...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 8, 2018 | News
Feelings of “American exceptionalism” remain strong in the U.S., but the nation has become exceptional in “problematic ways,” according to Philip Alston, United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. “Instead of...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 4, 2018 | News
Ferrell Foster is director of ethics and justice for the Baptist General Convention of Texas’ Christian Life Commission. 1. Where did you grow up? The Pleasant Grove section of southeast Dallas. 2. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why?...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 29, 2017 | News
More than 130 million people needed humanitarian aid assistance in 2016 (up from 125 million in 2015), according to the 2017 edition of the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) “World Humanitarian Data and...