The Flu Makes an Unwelcome Comeback as Omicron Surges
The number of recent influenza cases is typical for this time of year, but the last time flu cases reached this level was before the coronavirus pandemic began.
Inflation has continued to concern investors into the month of August, causing many growth stocks to give back any footing they gained in the prior month. Since the February top in tech growth, only select names in the cloud and semiconductor space, as well as big tech, are at new highs, while many high fliers from last year are still building a base.
Far from dissipating over the last decade, misogyny in the ad industry has simply mutated into something insidious, invisible, lurking in the shadows. It’s time to fire up the floodlights.
No matter what you call it, hiring is difficult right now and seems to be especially difficult in the food and beverage service industry. Anecdotes abound about understaffed restaurants struggling to hire, workers pivoting from food service to new industries, and new incentives being offered to entice workers. Whether you choose to call it a labor shortage or a great realignment of labor, changes happening in the industry today will reverberate for years to come.
What to Know About the Yankees’ Coronavirus Outbreak
Gleyber Torres is the eighth person (and the first player) from the Yankees organization to test positive for the coronavirus this week. All had been vaccinated.
Is the entry-level job going extinct? — Quartz at Work
Today’s graduates are expected to arrive on the job with a range of in-demand skills they would have once developed in the early years of their career.
The U.S. Birthrate Has Dropped Again. The Pandemic May Be Accelerating the Decline.
Over all, the birthrate declined by 4 percent in 2020. Births were down most sharply in December, when babies conceived at the start of the health crisis would have been born.
The United States isn’t the only country where killings quickly returned after pandemic lull
In recent weeks, as mass shootings across the United States dominated headlines, many Americans have observed that the country seems to be returning to something like a pre-pandemic state — shootings included.
Tech whistleblowers like Timnit Gebru can't just move on - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
"People have often reported on whistleblowing matter-of-factly as though we did it and moved on with our lives." But that couldn't be further from the truth.