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Mad Men. Furious Women.
Mad Men. Furious Women.
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.
Mad Men. Furious Women.
Assessing the Association Between Social Gatherings and COVID-19 Risk Using Birthdays | Public Health | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
Assessing the Association Between Social Gatherings and COVID-19 Risk Using Birthdays | Public Health | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
This cross-sectional study uses administrative health care data on 2.9 million households from the first 45 weeks of 2020 to assess the association between social gatherings and SARS-CoV-2 transmission by studying whether COVID-19 rates increase after birthdays in a household.
Assessing the Association Between Social Gatherings and COVID-19 Risk Using Birthdays | Public Health | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
Birthday Parties as Virus Vector
Birthday Parties as Virus Vector
Just how much Covid was spreading behind closed doors last year? Quite a lot, as a new study with a simple yet creative approach found out.
Birthday Parties as Virus Vector
Labor Shortage? Great Realignment?
Labor Shortage? Great Realignment?
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.
Labor Shortage? Great Realignment?
After an astounding rise in home prices, this expert predicts the boom will continue | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
After an astounding rise in home prices, this expert predicts the boom will continue | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Below is an interview of Edward Pinto, the Director of AEI’s Housing Center, with Fortune’s Shawn Tulley on the state of rapidly rising home prices across the country: In almost five decades as one of America’s top housing experts, including a stint as chief credit officer of Fannie Mae, Ed Pinto has never seen prices …
After an astounding rise in home prices, this expert predicts the boom will continue | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
European factories racing as Asian manufacturers see momentum weaken
European factories racing as Asian manufacturers see momentum weaken
LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) -European factories continued to ramp up their post-lockdown recovery in June but Asian manufacturers saw momentum weaken amid rising input costs and the reintroduction of curbs to combat a new wave of coronavirus infections, surveys showed. Czech and Polish manufacturing hit a record pace of activity for the second month in a row as orders rose and economies opened up again. But manufacturing activity grew at a slower pace in China and Japan as raw materials rose, while activity shrank in Vietnam, Malaysia and India, where governments imposed tougher restrictions to contain fresh coronavirus outbreaks.
European factories racing as Asian manufacturers see momentum weaken
The EU’s COVID-19 ‘digital certificates’ are up and running
The EU’s COVID-19 ‘digital certificates’ are up and running
A regulation underpinning a digital certification system for individuals in the European Union to verify their COVID-19 status via a common credential has gone into application today — on schedule. From today, almost all EU Member States are now able to issue and verify digital certificates, …
The EU’s COVID-19 ‘digital certificates’ are up and running
Pace of US job growth picks up as signs point to tight labor market
Pace of US job growth picks up as signs point to tight labor market
The US economy added 850,000 jobs in June, a noticeable pickup from the average of 546,000 jobs over the previous three months and much faster than the pace in the three months before that. This still leaves the economy 9 million jobs short of its trend.
Pace of US job growth picks up as signs point to tight labor market
China's "Psycho Boom" From Life in Lockdown - Vice
China's "Psycho Boom" From Life in Lockdown - Vice
Mental health has long been a stigmatized topic in China. Under Chairman Mao’s rule, psychology was dismissed as a bourgeois self-delusion, and was even bann...
China's "Psycho Boom" From Life in Lockdown - Vice
The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people
The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people
With the adjustment for vaccination, the national death rate is roughly the same as it was two months ago, while the adjusted rates in several states show the pandemic is spreading as fast among the unvaccinated as it did during the winter surge.
The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people