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United Airlines reluctantly agreed to postpone its company-wide Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate Friday until a federal judge is able to hold further hearings in a case brought by six of the airline’s employees. Evidently fearing it could lose Friday’s court battle and be slapped with a temporary restraining order (TRO), the airline pivoted 180 degrees and agreed to postpone its mandate until October 15. United Airlines originally told its 67,000 U.S. employees they must be vaccinated against Chinese coronavirus (or secure an exemption) by September 27 or face termination. Instead, unvaccinated employees will now be able to continue working normally while the plaintiffs and the company gather what they need to proceed in court. United Airlines employees wear masks as they walk through Terminal 1 at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) . Mark Paoletta, a partner at Schaerr Jaffe representing the plaintiff said in …

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Vizianagaram Collector A. Suryakumari on Saturday said that the State government would extend cooperation for entrepreneurs if they come forward with concrete proposals for establishing industries in the district. She said that the government would keen to establish food processing units and agro-based clusters. Exporters Conclave ‘Vanijya Utsav’ organised in Vizianagaram evoked good response on the first day. Speaking on the occasion, she said that the State government would process applications quickly through single window system and provide many financial incentives for the entrepreneurs. District Industrial Centre’s General Manager G.M. Sridhar and Industrial Promotion Officer B. Kalinga Vardhan said that the exhibition provided opportunities for many people to interact with various exporters of agro products and others. Wood Smart Private Limited-Visakhapatnam Director Siva Singupuram said that ‘Vanijya Utsav’ had provided a great opportunity to display home interiors to many …

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The nation is in the throes of a devastating and escalating addiction epidemic. Last year, over 93,000 individuals died of a drug overdose , setting a grim new record. More than 20 million Americans struggled with addiction in 2019 — yet less than 20 percent of them received treatment . Science and clinical practice have shown that properly treated addiction is not an intractable illness — it can be prevented, and it can be managed. Yet, over the past decade, we have made little progress in ending the overdose and addiction epidemics. A major reason for this is that the addiction treatment system is not equipped to properly treat the illness of addiction because it was built before we knew that addiction was an illness at all . It was built on a poor foundation — and like the infrastructures for so many of our important energy, transportation and communication needs, the addiction treatment infrastructure is now antiquated and crumbling under the weight of the crisis. As …

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Three times since the year 2000 — during the spring of 2005 , in July 2015 , and most recently through the late summer of this year — America’s official unemployment rate hit 5.2 percent. But while boasting the same “UR,” those three moments were defined by drastically different labor economies. Economic recoveries should be judged not simply by how many jobs come online, but by whether the jobs created pay a reliably middle-class wage. Unfortunately, the unemployment rate counts all jobs alike, no matter whether they pay a king’s ransom or leave families dependent on government support. Absent an indicator that incorporates that distinction, it’s nearly impossible to compare one recovery to another. Imagine for a moment that we could reclassify those subsisting on poverty jobs and part-time gigs as “unemployed.” You’d suddenly be able to gauge more precisely when the economy was producing good jobs, and when the unemployment rate was masking a troubled …

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The Social Security Trustees just released their annual report on the system’s finances. The news is awful. Most people know that the system’s future benefit promises are greater than its future payroll tax (FICA) revenues. But how big is the difference — its fiscal gap, also called its unfunded liability? The answer – a terrifying $59.8 trillion – is buried deep in Appendix table VIF1 . That’s over 2.5 times the size of the U.S. economy. Even more disturbing is the change since last year’s report. The system's debt grew by $6.8 trillion. In other words, Social Security ran a deficit equal to 30 percent of GDP. This is more than twice last year's $3.1 trillion official deficit. But unlike the change in official debt, Social Security's deficits are carefully kept off the books — for political, not economic reasons. Consequently, not a single media outlet we know of has reported these numbers. The cause of Social Security’s massive increase in red ink? It’s not policy. Nothing’s …

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In recent years, Mexico has positioned itself as a prosperous territory for the birth and development of startups , clear examples of this are Kavak , Bitso and, recently, Clip . However, we still face various challenges, especially in legal matters, which if overcome could turn the country into a hotbed of companies valued at more than a billion dollars , known as unicorn companies. To know more: How old are Latin American technology companies? Check out this infographic According to Víctor Aguirre López, founding partner of the firm BlackBox Startup Law , a law firm specialized in startups, the pandemic played a key role in the growth of these companies in Mexico. This is due to, on the one hand, the adoption of new digital products and services helped them to add users, and, on the other, important investment funds have decided to bet on national startup projects. “Although recent reforms, such as the one related to labor outsourcing, are laying the …

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“We’re not talking about how the caregiving crisis is impacting the learning loss for kids and how it’s disproportionately impacting girls and girls of color.” — Reshma Saujani, founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Code In Her Words is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox . A year into the pandemic, there are signs that the American economy is stirring back to life, with a falling unemployment rate and a growing number of people back at work . Even mothers — who left their jobs in droves in the last year in large part because of increased caregiving duties — are slowly re-entering the work force. But young Americans — particularly women 16 to 24 — are living an altogether different reality, with higher rates of unemployment than older adults, and many thousands, possibly even millions, postponing their education, which can delay their entry into the work force. New research suggests that the number of “disconnected” young …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has seen increased activity around a North Korean missile site, suggesting preparations for a possible space launch in the near future, U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday. The finding was revealed as Washington shows growing concern that Pyongyang could use space technology to enhance its missile capability and while United Nations Security Council members discuss fresh sanctions against North Korea after it conducted its fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6. The officials cited intelligence suggesting movement of components and propellant at North Korea's Sohae satellite launch facility. A test could take place within a couple of weeks, they said. "Our concern though is ... it's the same technology to develop ICBMs" (inter-continental ballistic missiles), one of the officials said. "We are keeping a close eye on these activities by the North Koreans. We're watching 24/7," a second official said. Joe Bermudez, chief analytics officer at …

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Union Minister for AYUSH, Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbanand Sonowal on Saturday inaugurated Rathnashree Arogyadhama, a new unit of Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Ayurveda Hospital, at Udupi. Speaking after inaugurating the new unit, Mr. Sonowal stressed on the need for more research in Ayurveda as AYUSH system of medicine was capable of building a strong India. Research would help getting global acceptance for AYUSH system, the Minster said. Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari and president of SDM Educational Society, Ujire, D. Veerendra Heggade said Ayurveda boosts individual’s immunity and was of much help during the pandemic. He urged people to choose Ayurveda as their first line of treatment. Union Minister of State for Agriculture Development and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje, Karnataka Minister for Social and Backward Classes Welfare Kota Srinivas Poojari, Udupi MLA K. Raghupathi Bhat, former Minister Pramod Madhwaraj, SDM Education Society Secretary D. Harshendra …

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India and Pakistan are both democracies in form, if not necessarily in substance. If India enjoys a higher status as a democracy, it’s partly because Pakistan’s all-powerful army is able to undermine democratic institutions at will. But you don’t need the military to subvert a democracy. It can also be done through the non-military arm of the security establishment. These include the police, intelligence agencies, the Central Bureau of Investigation, the National Investigation Agency, the Anti-Terrorist Squad, and a multitude of other organisations that, although not an integral part of the ‘security establishment’, do share its capacity to inflict pain, such as the Enforcement Directorate, the Income Tax department, and so on. Fake world In his previous book, A Feast of Vultures , Josy Joseph, an award-winning investigating journalist, documented how corruption has hollowed out India’s governance structures. His latest, The Silent Coup , dwells on the degeneration of the …

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