#Workers

Exclusive: Companies are turning to cheap EU labour to fill in Brexit red tape, due to a shortage of workers in the U.K. 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/brexit-creates-jobs-for-customs-staff-in-eastern-europe-india?sref
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Police overtime is a BIG deal in DC. You may have heard about @MayorBowser and @councilofdc robbing health care funds during a pandemic to pay a $43 million @DCPoliceDept overtime
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The news is full of people saying that enforcement of the COVID restrictions doesn't work. That is lazy, stupid, and manslaughtery. That is the exact same argument used against laws
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Okay. So the latest anti-trans @thesundaytimes piece by Lionel Shriver. And I would have tagged her in this tweet but looks like her account has been suspended. Not an encouraging
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Twitter has become like Scandinavian culture of yore. The Iron Law of Envy, the Law of Jante demanding 100% conformity not only in behavior and speech but in thoughts to,
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Yay, it's 2021!I know we have a lot of big, important things on our collective minds going into the new year, but...if you are thinking of doing a #SystematicReview in
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1/ Let's look at this paper: "Influenza Virus Aerosols in the Air and Their Infectiousness" from 2014 (we cannot claim this was unknown). We know now that we have a
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My first response to the phrase 'defund the police' was to think it was extreme. Then I read up on the idea, and I'm floored by what an elegant, thoughtful
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“SO YOU DON’T LIKE RACISM, BUT YOU’RE IN THE UK AND FEEL POWERLESS TO DO ANYTHING?”I have had several conversations with friends who have recently felt powerless as to what
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Local journalists, the vital work they do & the inadequate pay, credit & treatment they receive all reflect a deep structural inequality of journalism (plus research & regional "expertise" more
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Unless we pass laws which support people to enable them to self-isolate properly, any improvements to test & trace will have marginal impact and cases will simply spiral out of
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After covering the #covid19 vaccine rollout for the past 48 hours, the main thing I’ve learned is this: outside of frontline medical personnel, hospital system VIPs, & the separate federal
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The extent to which YIMBY folks have shifted the discourse over the last few years is impressive. Feels like they have the moral high ground and momentum now nationally. Credit
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Just under the wire again, but I continue my annual tradition -- my 10 favorite economics papers published in 2020, ordered alphabetically[Was pretty tough this year; might have to do
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So physicians and epidemiologists alarmed at rising cases urge @GovNedLamont to shut restaurants, bars, gyms in #Connecticut. He refuses to do so. @PMounds @JoshGeballe 1/https://www.theday.com/article/20201207/NWS12/201209531 NYC and Rhode
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We hear a lot about the unemployment rate as one number. But it’s not: It can be wildly different depending on your age, gender, education, income — and race. We
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