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COVID-19: Baby Bump or Baby Dump?

The Lowe Down

In 2020, many academics predicted that the incidence of a pandemic (COVID) would have a negative effect on birth rates. Expected deaths are calculated based on comprehensive models that account for previous demographic trends. Data on the % change in births across these 178 nations from 2019 to 2021 comes from “ Our World in Data ”.

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Cybercrime is on the rise, is your business prepared?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Reports of ransomware attacks increased over 3000% from 171,000 in 2019/20 to more than 5.5 million in 2020/21 ( Source: ActionFraud ). They often include weak points such as admin accounts with insecure passwords or come without multi-factor authentication enabled. Secure Configuration. User Access Control.

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See Yourself in Cyber – Protect Yourself from Phishing

The CIO Council

Even worse, over the past three years it has grown exponentially with more than twice as many complaints received in 2020 compared to 2019. . This information could be their social security number, bank account information, or their user ID and password. These are sobering statistics. Click here.”.

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Smart, safe and sustainable cycling: how AI-powered insights will encourage the next generation

Open Access Government - Technology News

The total value of the UK bicycle market was estimated to be around 47% higher in 2021 than in 2019, and the latest DfT Road Traffic Estimates suggest that cycle traffic in 2021 was 15.7% higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Over the last two years the UK has seen a cycling ‘boom’. Inspiring the next generation.

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Eviction practices across subsidized housing in New York State

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). 2020; Preston & Reina, 2021) compared public housing authorities to private landlords in individual markets. One study (Gromis et al.,

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The Sisyphus Files – Repeated Issues in Performance Audits

Barrett & Greene

Consider the December 2022 audit of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, which pointed out that the department did not “promptly or properly deactivate 17 terminated employees’ access” to the state’s criminal justice and accounting systems. A similar problem was also found there in 2020.

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Data Update: Analysis Of Renters At Risk As Eviction Moratorium Expires

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Rather, since the New York City Housing Court began to accept new eviction filings again on June 20, 2020, certain types of cases moved forward despite a complex intersection of Local, State, and Federal protections. Since March 17, 2020 (through the most recent data update of January 9, 2022) there have been 78,652 new eviction filings.

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