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America Has Too Much Parking. Really.

  
WSJ - 04.02.2023 Original article ›
David Harrison | Photographs By Philip Cheung For The Wall Street Journal
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Clearing parking lots for housing and office space in Buffalo and other cities. Local governments are erasing decades old minimum parking rules. Parking lots and garages that are increasingly unused in cities after the pandemic are being demolished as shown in this report in WSJ. Major retailers are leasing unused spaces for new development. This creates more space for people to live in. Urban planners say this reduces housing cost by adding more land availability, holds down rents, revitalizes cities following the pandemic, and mitigates a housing shortage.

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Opinion | Feel free to spill the beans, ex-employees. Your former boss can’t stop you.

  
Washington Post - 04.03.2023 Original article ›
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The National Labor Relations Board issues a ruling saying that nonconfidentiality agreements of employers violate the National Labor Relations Act. It ruled that to exercize rights of employees  under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act which guarantees employees the "right to self-organization, to form, join or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively, or engage in other concerted activities," employees must be able to share information about their workplace. This includes right to talk to co-workers and former employees, says the NLRB.

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More Workers Take Parental Leave as States, Employers Expand Eligibility

  
WSJ - 04.08.2023 Original article ›
Gwynn Guilford
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There is a big jump in working parents taking parental leave after new legislation is passed in different states. In the 12 months through February 2022 406,000 working parents were taking parental leave, a 13% jump from 2021. The share of workers with access to paid parental leave was 25% in 2022 compared to 19% in 2019. Seven states now require employers to provide parental leave. Four more states may join by 2026. The US still remains the only major advanced economy without nationally mandated parental leave.

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E.U. Cries Foul as Poland and Hungary Ban Ukraine Grain Imports

  
NYTimes.com - 04.17.2023 Original article ›
Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Vivek Shankar, Enjoli Liston
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Poland's ruling party, the Justice Party, faces elections in 2024. The influx of grain from Ukraine has lowered prices for farmers in Poland, and this affects the largely rural base of the Justice Party. As a result the government has acted to stop Ukrainian grain from entering the country, and also bans the shipment of grain through Poland to other EU countries. The UN sponsored Black Sea ports agreement that allows Ukraine to ship from Odessa and other ports is also coming up for renewal.

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China’s Economy Rebounds After Three Years of Zero-Covid Isolation

  
WSJ - 04.18.2023 Original article ›
Jason Douglas, Bingyan Wang
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China's retail sales were up 10% in March. The economy expanded 4.5% the first quarter of 2023 over the prior year and is dependent on consumers spending in the domestic economy. Over the prior quarter growth was 2.2%. Investment in buildings, fixed assets and machinery declined by 0.2% over the prior month, in real estate over the prior quarter it declined by 5.8%. The recovery is a rebound from three years of weak consumer spending during the pandemic as Chinese people went out- traveled and went out shopping. 

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Court Upholds Federal Government’s Title 42 Border Policy

  
WSJ - 03.05.2022 Original article ›
Michelle Hackman, Alicia Caldwell
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US law now supports turning back migrants at the border. Under public health policy Title 42 migrants are denied asylum, a federal appeals court ruling supporting this. It is also now supported by the Biden administration. It is a key tool used by both the Trump and Biden administrations to combat illegal border crossings. It also reduces one more area in which differences were mistakenly created between Republican and Democratic parties, that distracted from focus on much needed infrastructure and other priorities for the American people.

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Annalena Baerbock: Germany's first female foreign minister flourishes in a crisis | DW | 07.03.2022

  
DW.COM - 03.07.2022 Original article ›
Elizabeth Schumacher
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Annalena Baerbock is emerging as one of Germany's most popular leaders, winning overwhelming praise from all quarters in Germany including opposition CDU conservatives, says DW.com. She wins praise for her clarity and steadiness in a time of upheaval. After Olaf Scholz she is easily the most popular leader in Germany. As co-leader of the Greens with Habeck, she is Foreign Minister. Olaf Scholz also commended Baerbock for her work during the crisis in helping Germany rethink old policies under Merkel, in his speech to the German parliament.

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Did Modi matter more?

  
The Hindu - 03.11.2022 Original article ›
Manjesh Rana & Mirza Asmer Beg
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This analysis by The Hindu says Mr. Modi mattered more to the electorate in Uttar Pradesh than the chief minister Mr. Adityanath. A sense that the development agenda is the way forward for the state and for India appears to have been on the minds of people in the state, says The Hindu, based on its analysis of sentiment in the state. About two fifths of the people in the state who participated in the recent election had positive views of the development work of the Modi government at the national level.

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Germany looks set to cut development aid | DW | 25.03.2022

  
DW.COM - 03.25.2022 Original article ›
Sabine Kinkartz
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At a time when the Ukraine war has hurt poor countries Germany plans to cut its development aid by 12% in its draft budget. The budget is expected to shrink to 10.8 billion euros at a time when defense budget is increased to 50 billion euros. The boost to defense is a result of the war in Ukraine. Germany is also set to cut its contribution to the World Food Programme by 50% to 28 million euros. Russia and Ukraine supply wheat, cereals to poor countries. High energy prices also affect these countries.

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Flowers Will Bloom Beyond Borders - Culture Crossroads | NHK WORLD-JAPAN On Demand

  
NHK WORLD - 04.01.2022 Original article ›
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NHK Japan created the song "Flowers Will Bloom" in support of people affected by the disaster from the tsumani and earthquake of 2011. It is now in 11 languages with performances by many famous artists. It is a message of hope- after the world experienced a series of natural and manmade disasters since 2009. The great financial crisis of 2009 from financial misdeeds, the tsunami and earthquake of 2011 in Japan, the wars in Syria and Yemen, the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, and now the war in Ukraine in 2022.

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Britons urged to measure waist and height in battle against obesity

  
The Times - 04.08.2022 Original article ›
Eleanor Hayward, Health Correspondent
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The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence in the UK is urging adults to use a tape measure to check that their waist circumference does not exceed half their height. Other BMI guidelines do not provide an accurate measure of body fat and other ways are needed. Waist and height measure are "simple and effective" way to know if someone is overweight, says NICE. Today a majority of people in UK between 45 and 74 years are overweight. This is true in many parts of the world.

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Memories from Shinzo Abe’s historic Gujarat visit

  
The Hindu - 07.09.2022 Original article ›
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Shinzo Abe's 2017 trip to Mohandas Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, struck a chord in India. He was awarded the Padma Vibushan India's highest civilian honor. Abe said about relations with India as he opened the bullet train projects financed by Japan - "JAI India, JAI Japan" with the first two letters of Japan and the first of India making JAI. Both Abe and Modi had the foresight to build closer relations between Japan and India starting two decades earlier.

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French presidential election: How France's once-dominant political parties fell from grace

  
France 24 - 04.11.2022 Original article ›
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Both Valerie Pecresse of the Republicains and Anne Hidalgo of the Socialists each win a small share of the vote. Pecresse less than 5% in France's presidential elections, Anne Hidalgo about 2%. These 2 parties dominated French elections for the postwar period for 6 decades. They have stumbled into a complete loss showing how they failed to connect with voter's concerns about high cost of living, jobs, manufacturing outshoring, neglect of infrastructure, and neglect of rural areas, much the same as in the US.

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Germany's Green 'superheros': Habeck and Baerbock | DW | 17.05.2022

  
DW.COM - 05.17.2022 Original article ›
Jens Thurau
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Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck are the most popular leaders in Germany today. According to a survey by Insa polling institute in May Habeck ranks first and Baerbock second in popularity among Germans. Habeck is seen as very approachable by Germans and the Greens are exceeding expectations. Baerbock has taken a valiant stand for Germany in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Habeck has worked hard to reverse decades of neglect of German interests by Merkel and Schroeder and has set the foundations for German energy independence.

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PM Modi calls on Pope Francis in Vatican, invites him to visit India

  
The Hindu - 10.30.2021 Original article ›
Kallol Bhattacherjee
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Modi's meeting with Pope Francis planned for half an hour lasts for an hour. Both leaders discussed climate change, inequality, upward mobility, and recovery from the coronavirus. Mr. Modi gave Pope Francis a silver candelabra and a book, The Climate Climb: India's strategy, action, and achievements. The Pope gave Mr. Modi a collection of his main teaching documents and a bronze medallion featuring a tree and the words in Italian "The desert will become a garden."  Modi invited Pope Francis to visit India.

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Ruling party of Fumio Kishida wins comfortable victory in Japanese election

  
The Guardian - 11.19.2021 Original article ›
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Fumio Kishida leads the LDP party in Japan to an absolute majority in parliament in the recent election. The LDP with its partner Komeito won 293 seats in the 465 member parliament. He called for reducing inequality, following a similar effort by president Biden in the US. A supplement to the budget will provide aid to families with children and small businesses suffering from the effects of the pandemic. Kishida will double defense spending to 2% of GDP following tensions in the Asia-Pacific region. 

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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas—and Like 2019

  
WSJ - 11.24.2021 Original article ›
Justin Lahart
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Consumer spending in the US is up for Christmas 2021 with 5.8 million more US jobs in October than a year earlier, with higher wage checks and stimulus checks, child tax credit payments, all boosting spending power. With 231 million Americans vaccinated with at least one shot compared to none Christmas last year more Americans are in stores. Shopping online is up only 7%, in store retail sales up 14%, according to Commerce Department. Passenger traffic on interstate highways is back up to where it was before the pandemic.

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‘Battery arms race’: how China has monopolised the electric vehicle industry

  
The Guardian - 11.25.2021 Original article ›
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Cobalt and nickel mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo is increasingly under the control of a few countries. Much of this metal goes into Electric Vehicles. One expert told a US Senate Committee hearing in June that China was building one EV megafactory a week compared to one every 4 months by the US. The money committed to supporting the electric vehicle industry in Biden's infrastructure package in 2021 still leaves the US lagging behind, says this report in The Guardian.

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France, Italy Sign Pact Seeking More Influence in Europe

  
WSJ - 11.26.2021 Original article ›
Giovanni Legorano
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The cooperation between France and Italy helped persuade Germany to move forward with massive aid to the EU countries during the pandemic. Scholz, the new SPD chancellor of Germany sees the European Union with more voices from southern Europe, from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece as a good thing. Northern European countries are also moving in a different direction with Social Democrats governments elected in Denmark and Sweden, working on policies to reduce inequality, bring together different sections of society in a shared future, and the dignity of human beings.

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Hunter Biden on family tragedies and the drug addiction that nearly destroyed him

  
The Times - 04.05.2021 Original article ›
Hunter Biden
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The US president's son, Joe Biden's son, talks about his struggles after the loss of his brother to cancer in 2015, in this rare story told in The Times. Things went downhill he says after that and it was the strong support of Joe Biden and the love of his brother even after death that helped him recover. Here he tells of the love of his parents and family that helped him and the family pull together through a difficult period.

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How the Definition of an American Family Has Changed

  
WSJ - 12.15.2019 Original article ›
Ellen Byron
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Changes in the American family as the dominant model of two thirds of American families with male breadwinners, and married couples changes to one where a diverse set of arrangements replaces this. Multi generational families, people getting married later, divorced parents, and other arrangements are adding to the traditional household so that there are different and diverse situations. There may also be a sense that culturally it may have moved too fast and requiring an effort to make sense of all the changes in recent years. 

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In California, New Year Brings New Regulations for Businesses

  
WSJ - 01.01.2020 Original article ›
Christine Mai Duc
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New laws in California are designed to protect renters and workers in the internet ride getting business. Landlords will not be allowed more than a 5% increase in rent annually. Workers cannot be classified as independent contractors in the ride hailing business dominated by Uber and Lyft so that workers can benefit from overtime pay, minimum wages, and sick leave.  Other laws in 2019 protect consumers privacy by requiring companies to delete information they collect and stop selling it if consumers request this. 

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With Relief Plan, Biden Takes on a New Role: Crusader for the Poor

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NYTimes.com - 03.11.2021 Original article ›
Michael D. Shear, Carl Hulse, Jonathan Martin
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More than half of the money in the $1.9 trillion aid package that was passed in the US Congress will go to people who need it most, the unemployed, the poor and struggling Americans on low incomes. The pandemic hit this group very hard. US president Biden has taken on a new role of supporting the poor, not just the working class as he has done with his roots in a working class district in Delaware. Biden says the aid will give the working class and struggling Americans "a fighting chance."

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Lunar Eclipse Photos: See the Super Flower Blood Moon Up Close

  
WSJ - 05.27.2021 Original article ›
Robert Lee Hotz
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Awesome pictures of the lunar eclipse in the night sky on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. It combined a supermoon, lunar eclipse, and a blood moon. Blood moon refers to the reddish hue as light filters through the earth's atmosphere. In native American cultures this is referred to as the flower moon. Lunar eclipses happen when the Earth passes between sun and moon, blocking the sunlight that normally illumines the moon's grayish white cratered surface. The next one is on May 16, 2022.

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Fearing Hong Kong’s Fate, Taiwan Moves to Bolster Its Military Against China

  
WSJ - 08.30.2020 Original article ›
Chun Han Wong In Hong Kong, Joyu Wang In Taipei
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Taiwan's plan to increase its defense capabilities with increased purchases from the U.S. $15.4 billion dollars in 2021. The U.S. recently sent a spy plane over PLA drills on the mainland which were meant to warn the U.S. and  Taiwan. After the situation in Hong Kong watched closely in Taiwan sentiment in Taiwan is shifting to where about three fourths of people in Taiwan in polls want to keep Taiwan as a free and separate country, and defend its independent status.

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