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White House Looks at Benefits to Lure Americans Back Into Workforce

  
WSJ - 12.20.2022 Original article ›
Annie Linskey
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Plans of the Biden administration to bring back workers to the workforce in 2023 by increasing worker benefits. The place seen where America is lacking is participation of younger women in the workforce and older people who chose to retire during Covid. Increasing child care and benefits for child care is one line of action. Other approaches are being explored by Brian Deese of Biden's National Economic Council.

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PM Modi virtually distributes appointment letters to 71,000 people as part of Rozgar Mela

  
The Hindu - 01.20.2023 Original article ›
The Hindu Bureau
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The effort by prime minister Modi under Rozgar Mela to create 1 million new jobs in 2023 to mitigate the effect of the lockdowns during the pandemic and its effects on jobs. 71,000 new job appointment letters were given in a virtual event. Modi emphasized that "transparency in recruitment and promotion inspires confidence in the youth."  He called the process streamlined and time bound to demonstrate good governance.

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Boris Johnson hails biggest social care shake-up in a generation

  
The Times - 09.07.2021 Original article ›
Oliver Wright, Policy Editor | Chris Smyth | Henry Zeffman
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Boris Johnson calls for expanded funding and increased capacity for procedures at the National Health Service. Britain's NHS will carry out a million more procedures in 2022 with the extra funding. A rise in national insurance contributions by one percent will fund the additional 10% increase in capacity at NHS to deal with Covid backlogs. This is in addition to 5.4 billion pounds injected into NHS earlier over the winter.

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America Made a Huge Bet on Sports Gambling. The Backlash Is Here.

  
WSJ - 03.28.2024 Original article ›
Joshua Robinson, Jared Diamond, Robert O'connell
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The 2018 Supreme Court decision allowing sports gambling and betting has serious negative consequences for sports in America by 2024. So much so that the NCAA president Charlie Baker has called for a nationwide ban on the bets on the performance of college athletes. WSJ says a nightmare scenario emerged from the experience of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player Shohei Ohtani and the betting scandal related to his interpreter.

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Jal Jeevan Mission (Har Ghar Jal) in the village of Ashrafpur, Dist- Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh

  
YouTube - 08.26.2022 Original article ›
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The changes Har Ghar Jal Mission for clean safe drinking water for every rural household by 2022 is making a huge difference in the lives of hundreds of millions of people in India. Shown in this video on Har Ghar Jal is its implementation at the local level in India's largest state of Uttar Pradesh with a population of 228 million people near New Delhi.

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Beijing’s Pivot to Growth Comes Very Late

  
WSJ - 12.15.2022 Original article ›
Nathaniel Taplin
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China has made an astonishing turn away from covid restrictions. Yet this comes after three years that hurt growth which will affect the recovery says this column in WSJ. China is looking for 5% growth in 2023. Problems in the way are a public affected by the lockdowns, a covid surge, housing that will take time to recover, and diversification by Foxconn and other companies away from China to India, Vietnam.

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Texas Cities Are Booming, but Their Offices Are the Most Vacant

  
WSJ - 10.09.2023 Original article ›
Konrad Putzier
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Overdevelopment of the office market in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, cities in Texas, presents a problem in combination with the increase in remote work. The office vacancy rate in Texas is 25% in the third quarter of 2023, according to Moody's Analytics, compared to 12% for New York and 17% for San Francisco. The oversupply of buildings for office space was decades in the making, says WSJ.

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The Ashes: the inside story of an England camp divided, distracted and desperate for golf

  
The Times - 01.18.2022 Original article ›
Simon Wilde, Hobart
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The story told in The Times how England collapsed to a 4-0 loss in Ashes Cricket Tests against Australia in 2022. Lack of preparation, poor selection of bowlers, and a better prepared Australian team led to the debacle. There is also the history of performance in Australia- since 1990 England won only 6 Tests out of 45 Test played in Australia, and lost 32 Tests, with 7 drawn.

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Boeing Reports Loss as 787 Charges Mount

  
WSJ - 01.26.2022 Original article ›
Andrew Tangel
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Boeing reports a third annual loss in a row. As production problems and delivery delays for the Dreamliner 787 Boeing cost an additional $4.5 billon in the final quarter of 2021. Of this $3.5 billion is to compensate customers for the delays, and abnormal production costs forecast to be double than earlier estimated. Boeing expects deliveries to start in April and sees losses as behind it once deliveries start.

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COVID digest: India hits 75% vaccination rate milestone | DW | 30.01.2022

  
DW.COM - 01.30.2022 Original article ›
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India registers an amazing comeback feat of 75% vaccinated with two doses on January 30, 2022, without the resistance to vaccination seen in US and Europe. For over a billion people this is nothing short of extraordinary. India's experience is similar to that in other parts of Asia and Latin America where people trust health authorites, after years of dealing with many diseases requiring vaccination in the last 50 years.

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Comeback king Lula gets delayed honeymoon in Brazil

  
France 24 - 08.28.2023 Original article ›
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The Lula government in Brazil gets off to a good start. The economy grows by 1.9% in the last quarter and growth is expected to be 2.5% for 2023. New budget rules passed the conservative Congress providing funding for infrastructure and social programs. Brazilian cooperation makes it possible to add Argentina to the BRICS membership at the recent BRICS meeting in Johannesburg. Brazil also attended the recent G-7 meetings.

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Blue supermoon: World gazes at rare lunar phenomenon

  
BBC News - 08.31.2023 Original article ›
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The BBC shows pictures of the blue supermoon from different parts of the world including Brazil, Israel, Japan, Russia, US, England. It is a unforgettable sight in the night sky that people all over world were able to see on August 30, 2023. This one is over an old fort in Israel. Other pictures show it with a flower in Srinagar, India, and spectacular over the ancient temple of Poseidon in Greece.

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No Nation in the World Is Buying More Planes Than India. Here’s Why.

  
NYTimes.com - 11.03.2023 Original article ›
Alex Travelli, Hari Kumar
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Huge orders made in 2023 for new planes from Boeing and Airbus now place India in the top ranks of the world civil aviation market. A large growing middle class is using air travel for business and tourism. The government is investing billions of dollars to build new airports in smaller and midsize cities in addition to Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore. A new aircraft industry is also coming up in Gujarat state.

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What to Know About the New Covid Variants

  
NYTimes.com - 11.03.2023 Original article ›
Dana G. Smith
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HV.1 and EG.5 are the dominant Covid variants in November 2023 each taking up about 25% of cases in the US. Paxlovid works against these variants. The new Pfizer vaccine also works against these Covid variants. More than any single variant the rapid rate of virus evolution, the many mutations, are the chief concern of experts. Overall they combine to produce the threat we face in public health.

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Dutch on brink of electing first female leader

  
POLITICO - 11.22.2023 Original article ›
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Dilan Isigloz is unusual in the Netherlands or in the EU. She leads the Democracy and Freedom Party of prime minister Rutte into the Dutch 2023 elections with the highest likely vote of 18%, tied with the New Social Contract Party. She is both a woman and an immigrant herself who is trying to curb immigration so that the Netherlands can absorb the immigrants it already has including good housing and other services.

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Bastille Day: A brief history of France’s July 14 national holiday

  
France 24 - 07.13.2023 Original article ›
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Indian prime minister Modi is the guest of honor on France's national holiday, the Bastille Day July 14, 2023. On this day French revolutionaries freed prisoners of King Louis XVI at the Bastille in Paris. By October this led to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen the first formal document of rights of the people before the American document on these same rights a few years later.

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Opinion | Your Business in China May Be Uninsurable

  
WSJ - 08.07.2023 Original article ›
Elisabeth Braw
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Demand for political risk insurance in China increased from 25% in 2019 to 68% in 2023, according to insurance broker WTW. Out of 50 insurers only 5 are offering political insurance for China and only for $50 million when most companies needing this insurance are large companies. The Ukraine war and China-US tensions over Taiwan are making it difficult for American or European companies to do business in China.

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Missing million: hunt for lost army of UK jobless

  
The Times - 08.12.2020 Original article ›
Philip Aldrick, Economics Editor
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Look more carefully at the numbers that the official ONS statistics ignores or does not show, and jobless are at about 2.5 million in Britain, including 1.1 million of "disguised jobless" including people on zero contract hours. The jobless rate in reality is much higher at about 7percent and climbing at midyear 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic. The Bank of England sees the figure going up to 11%.

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Oil Billionaires Bet on Trump’s Energy Agenda

  
WSJ - 07.24.2024 Original article ›
Benoît Morenne, Collin Eaton
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Trump is getting the support of oil billionaires and oil and gas backers as he decides to ignore climate change completely in favor of "Drill, Baby Drill." Costs of not doing anything for climate change action would accumulate in the absence of action and it could cost the US upwards of 1 trillion dollars in 2028 to fix what was breaking and was ignored for 4 years.

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Behind the scenes as Joe Biden lost control of the Democratic Party

  
Washington Post - 07.20.2024 Original article ›
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This title is what Post readers have in mind about the Post itself turning into social media. Only 28 Democrats in Congress out of 264 and most in districts that are not safe or borderline which is not unusual are the issue. Taking out the Independents 91% of congressional Democrats support the president for 2024, and of the swing states maybe just 5 Democrats with none from Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia.

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Is This Yankees vs. Dodgers World Series Baseball’s Salvation—or Its Last Stand?

  
WSJ - 10.24.2024 Original article ›
Jason Gay
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A 70 year rivalry between two of the greatest teams in American baseball gets off to another start in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night, October 25, 2024. In 1978 44 million viewers tuned into to watch them compete in the World Series. New players such as Shohei Ohtani are playing for the first time in a World Series that is bringing new energy to baseball as an American pasttime.

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Harris Came for a Fox News Interview, but Got a Debate With Bret Baier

  
NYTimes.com - 10.17.2024 Original article ›
Michael M. Grynbaum
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This interview conducted by Bret Baier of Fox News of the vice president Kamala Harris was more like a debate with a Republican nominee for president as Baier would not let the vice president finish several times. The interview took place on October 16, 2024, in an effort by Harris to reach voters who supported Trump but would consider alternative visions of the future than the one offered by the former president.

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Migrants Have Been a ‘Godsend,’ New York Schools Chief Says

  
NYTimes.com - 09.05.2024 Original article ›
Troy Closson
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School enrollment in New York city for public schools has dropped from 1 million to 900,000 in 2024. Some families in NYC moved to South Carolina, and US birthrates are dropping. The migrant children fill this gap in city schools. Teachers have been adept at integrating children of different backgrounds. This is another side of the migration issue even as Biden has closed the border with Mexico for unlawful migration.

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Renewables Growth Set to Surge by 2030 But Falls Short of U.N. Climate Goal, IEA Says

  
WSJ - 10.09.2024 Original article ›
Giulia Petroni
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IEA says 5500 gigawatts of renewables energy will be added in the next 7 years 2023-2030 three times the amount added in 2017-2023. With 60% of it coming from China.

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Railroads Steam Toward Big Gains

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Wall Street Journal - 01.14.2015 Original article ›
Laura Stevens, Laura, Stevens
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Analysts expect double digit 2015 earnings per share growth for most U.S. railroads in 2015. Some shift to trucks is expected with 20% decline in diesel prices. Shipments of coal will decline as power plants shift to lower priced natural gas from coal. The lower shipment of crude is only a small part of railroad business and is not likely to affect the industry.
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