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University of Chicago launches training academy for violence prevention workers: ‘You’re made to make history’

The decision to launch the initiative came after the pandemic gave way to a spike in gun violence, leading to a flood of public dollars that some nonprofits and community groups were ill-equipped to handle.

Chicago Sun-Times

Is the worst behind us? What unemployment data for metro Chicago indicates

For the first time since before the pandemic, metro Chicago posted jobless rates below 4% across three consecutive months.

Chicago Sun-Times

Gavin Newsom Spins Revisionist History of His COVID Record

Plus: internet censorship, outdoor dining land grabs, and more...

Reason

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Poor countries face vaccine inequity

Vaccination is a global strategy, yet many low-income countries can't access then, perpetuating the pandemic

Salon

The Fatal Breath: Covid-19 and Society in Britain by David Vincent review – a moving account of the plague of our times

This bold and forensic history of the pandemic, drawing on previously unpublished diaries, underlines the sheer scale of suffering, with the poor and isolated particularly badly hit

The Guardian - UK

Federal Government Improperly "Coerced" and "Significantly Encouraged" Certain Speech Restrictions by Social Media Platforms

In yesterday's decision in Missouri v. Biden, the Fifth Circuit (Judges Edith Clement, Jennifer Elrod, and Don Willett) held that the federal government violated the First Amendment by causing social media platforms to block posts on various topics (including "the COVID-19 lab-leak theory, pandemic lockdowns, vaccine side-effects, election fraud, and…

Reason

Roman Kemp urges government to treat mental health like ‘the pandemic that it is’

‘It’s time for the people in power to just do their side of it,’ says radio DJ

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Why are those lost to COVID not formally memorialised? How politics shapes what we remember

Every Friday, volunteers gather on the Albert Embankment at the River Thames in London to lovingly retouch thousands of red hearts inscribed on a Portland stone wall directly opposite the Houses of Parliament. Each heart is dedicated to a British victim of COVID. It is a deeply social space –…

The Conversation

Don't Make the Same COVID Mistakes Again

It's vital to recognize the many unforeseen consequences of school closures, business lockdowns, and mask mandates.

Reason

The UK economy's COVID bounceback was stronger than we thought – but here's why people are still feeling financial pain

The UK has been transformed from the laggard of developed economy COVID recoveries, after a recent data revision by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed its growth was stronger than previously thought after the pandemic-era lockdowns. The country’s gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of national income that was…

The Conversation

Barbiecore and ‘spicy cough’: pop culture and the pandemic deliver updates to the Macquarie Dictionary

‘Goblin mode’, situationship and pyrocumulonimbus among 3,000 new entries to the ninth edition

The Guardian - AU

VIX: Sentiment Says Stocks Will Rise- Is it Wrong?

The VIX fell to a new low of 13.02 on September 1, the lowest level since June 22, when it dropped to a 12.73 post-pandemic low. The VIX has been in a bearish trend in 2023, reflecting the significant rally in the most diversified U.S. stock market index, the S&P…

Barchart

Biden wants federal workforce to come to the office more. Some ask why?

As employers including the federal government cut back on remote work, employees who never had any intention of working from an office push back and threaten to retire or resign.

WEKU

Where are Britain’s missing schoolchildren?

School attendance is failing to return to pre-pandemic levels as data shows that more than one in five children in England are still frequently absent.

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WEKU

Why auto workers are asking for a 46% pay raise

Bold union demands, bolstered by a tight labor market and frustration throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, are paying off in some sectors with significant raises for workers.

The Guardian - UK

Japanese city to use robots to tackle rise in truancy

Schools in Kumamoto have purchased two mechanical assistants to help children regain confidence in dealing with teachers and classmates

Fortune

CEOs are gambling that pandemics are over with their remote work policies

Labor Day marks a mass (order to) return to the office. But what about Bill Gates' prediction that another pandemic is just around the corner?

Salon

Michael Pollan produces Food Inc. sequel

The film was largely inspired by the raging COVID-19 pandemic, which transformed the food industry as we know it

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The Guardian - AU

Australia’s economy has got smaller on a per capita basis – like it did in the GFC and 1990s recession. So, you know, not good

We now have GDP that is growing only due to population growth and even then only due to government spending

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson ‘buried head in sand’ on Covid to sort Brexit, ex-Tory health minister says

Lord Bethell said Downing Street ‘did not want to prioritise the pandemic’ when it first emerged ‘even though the evidence was mounting’

Fortune

How the CEO of a womenswear brand reinvented the ‘new professional’ dress code dominating the workplace

The pandemic brought M.M.LaFleur to the brink. Looking back, its CEO Sarah LaFleur calls it an “existential moment."

The Walrus

Why the Bank of Canada Is Facing Intense Scrutiny

The key interest rate is the policy lever the bank pulls to keep inflation in check. But a lot has changed in recent years

Roll Call

Medicare pandemic advances deepen debt for some hospitals - Roll Call

Congress poured billions into hospitals through advances on Medicare claims, but now some medical providers are struggling to pay it back.

WEKU

The perilous hunt for PPP fraud and the hot tip that wasn't

The public data on PPP loans contains a lot of suspicious patterns, but it can also send people on wild goose chases

The Guardian - UK

No 10 had head-in-sand mentality at start of Covid crisis, says ex-minister

James Bethell says Downing Street did not want to prioritise pandemic in early 2020 even as evidence was mounting

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