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Cities indicated with red dots are those visited by St. Paul during his missionary journeys, as related in Acts, or were the recipients of his epistles, or both.
Quarter 3 update for Lancaster County, Pa. Home births were 33.3% of reported births, up from 32.5% in Q3 2025, but still down from 35.6% in Q3 2024. Birthing center deliveries by midwives were 5.1%, up from 3.8% in Q3 2025 and 3.7% in Q3 2024.
A new state law on midwives enacted in May seems to have thrown matters into some confusion which is being addressed in the courts, but for now, the commonwealth's claim is that the practice of unlicensed midwives attending home births is unaffected.
Universities and many nonprofits affiliated with higher ed were completely exempted from the H1B visa caps by the "American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000", which passed by voice vote in the House and by a 96-1 Senate vote in October 2000.
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Here is what is happening with universities filing no-lottery/cap-exempt H1B visas for relatively basic jobs that can be filled by our citizen recent graduate sons and daughters.
Many faculty and administrators at our universities are themselves on H1B visas, with their children on H4 dependent visas. When those children turn 21, they age out of H4 status and can no longer remain in the US as dependents of their parents. These aged-out H4 kids change to F1 status in the 3rd/4th year of their undergrad studies.
Universities then hire these F1-transitioned kids for university jobs and sponsor them for no-lottery cap-exempt H1B visas, which are 100% guaranteed, allowing them to stay in the country without going through the regular H1B lottery. This cap-exempt, no-lottery university H1B sponsorship is being used to create a pathway for the children of university employees to remain in the USA, through an informal, self-perpetuating network where universities help sponsor one another鈥檚 children.
How many cap-exempt H1Bs are being sponsored for such positions, what kinds of jobs are involved, and how are these positions being recruited and filled?
These jobs are already held by such an aged-out H4 transitioned to F1. These advertisements are mostly probably to file PERM/I-140, aka a green card, for an aged-out H4 kid! If no US citizen applies, PERM will be approved.
Also, the same cheat is used for H4 spouses of H1B faculty/admin to get them a separate H1B as H4 EAD can not be approved unless PERM/I-140 for the original H1B spouse is approved!
Births to Hispanics born in the United States are actually up year-over-year, which should not be surprising given the boom in Hispanic births from 1995-2007. As a result, the global US-born Hispanic population will surge over the next three years before gradually leveling off.
But note also that the US-born Hispanic increase @smirkley reports, +1.5%, is much less than the Y/Y increase in the 20-40 population of +4.4%. This likely represents 1) declining TFR; 2) postponed childbearing; and 3) emigration/deportation of US-born Hispanics, mostly minors.
New monthly CDC Wonder birth data for the USA just dropped for August 2026. In percentage terms, births to white, Asian, and "other" mothers increased year-over-year, while Black and Hispanic declined. Births to white mothers were over 50% for the seventh month in a row.
Dating myself here, but I think these were the top franchises in terms of playing time. Honorable mentions to several EA Sports games, TIE Fighter, and omitting same-franchise entries.
For Mexico, births registered in 2025 that also occurred in calendar year 2025 totaled 1,058,332, compared to 1,086,087 for 2024 (as of 2025's report) and 1,157,443 for 2023 (as of 2024's report). Births delayed by a year have been declining as well. For example ...
...in 2024's report, 375,587 births were added to 2022. This declined to 323,746 births added to 2023 in 2025, and 295,370 added to 2024 in this year's report.
Just released: Mexico's INEGI reports 1,678,532 birth registrations in 2025, up from 1,672,227 in 2024. Note: this captures all births registered in 2025, regardless of the year in which the births occurred.
Argentina reports 384,042 registered births for 2025, the lowest number since 1944. Only ten years ago, 770,000 births were registered. Total fertility may be hovering just above 1.0, which is still not the lowest among Latin American nations.
Mexico's just-published Encuesta Intercensal (EIC) 2025 contains some interesting baseline data on aging and ethnicity. From 2020 to 2025, the median age of Mexicans rose from 29 to 32, with a rapid contraction of the under-10 population over those five years.
The Afro-Mexican population, by contrast, has gone from having higher fertility than average as recently as the 1990s to having much lower fertility today. The decline among Afro-Mexicans appears to have started about ten years earlier than for the rest of the country.
