Category «Economy»

Senator Murray Offers Roadmap to Dramatically Expand Testing Capacity Nationwide

“Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate health committee, joined Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) to outline Democrats’ new proposal to address the Trump Administration’s failure to rapidly expand testing capacity for COVID-19 in Washington state and across the country.  …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Government Documents, Health Care

Is Your Income Higher Now Than 10 Years Ago? It Depends On Where You Live

Report via TRAC – “Where you reside has had a major impact on the relative change in prosperity families experience as reflected in the income reported on federal 1040 income tax returns. Using the latest figures reported by the Internal Revenue Service, and comparing these to returns filed a decade earlier, some counties saw a …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

NY and LA lead country in extent of Covid-19 testing – JHU tracks cases by county

Politico Nightly: “In the U.S., more than 2.8 million coronavirus tests have helped reveal more than half a million cases of Covid-19. New York leads the nation in testing, conducting 16 percent of all tests, which have covered more than 2.7 percent of the state’s population. More than 1.1 percent of New York residents have …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Health Care

When Could Things Reopen – How Each State Is Responding To COVID-19

NPR – “Just as the coronavirus has spread from coast to coast and disrupted nearly every aspect of daily life, so too have the state-level restrictions and recommendations designed to combat it. Governors are implementing all sorts of measures aimed at controlling the outbreak and responding to the public health and economic damage it has …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine, Privacy

Digital 2020 Report

Hootsuite – A comprehensive look at the state of the internet, mobile devices, social media, and ecommerce. “4.5 billion internet users around the globe. 3.8 billion people on social media. What are the best opportunities in digital? Which platforms are growing fastest? And what new consumer behaviors should your brand be paying attention to?  Steer …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Harvard Researchers Say Some Social Distancing May Be Needed Into 2022

Bloomberg: “People around the world might need to practice some level of social distancing intermittently through 2022 to stop Covid-19 from surging anew and overwhelming hospital systems, a group of Harvard disease researchers said Tuesday. Lifting social-distancing measures all at once could risk simply delaying the epidemic’s peak and potentially making it more severe, the …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Government Documents, Health Care

Demand sharing unleashes the “power of pull” for your science research

Bruce Aron – Medium – PLEASE NOTE: This is a draft of a bit of the Open Scientist Handbook. There are references/links to other parts of this work-in-progress that do not link here in this blog. Sorry. But you can also see what the Handbook will be offering soon. “Why is Demand Sharing so important …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads

Free to read / continuously updated – The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and the number of deaths in countries around the world: “The human cost of the coronavirus outbreak has continued to mount, with more than 1.86m cases confirmed globally and more than 110,000 people known to have died from the disease. The …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Knowledge Management