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COVID-19: Baby Bump or Baby Dump?

The Lowe Down

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 ”. Countries suffering higher COVID mortality witnessed greater declines in fertility.

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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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See Yourself in Cyber – Protect Yourself from Phishing

The CIO Council

According to a 2021 FBI Internet Crimes Report , phishing was the number one crime reported over the past five years., Even worse, over the past three years it has grown exponentially with more than twice as many complaints received in 2020 compared to 2019. . These are sobering statistics. Click here.”.

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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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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2021 ; Gubits et al. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). More specifically, people leaving incarceration often are not adequately served by short-term planning, and instead would benefit from longer-term housing outreach and engagement ( Remster, 2021 ). Another key upstream strategy involves effective discharge planning.

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Gen Z has fewer Black federal employees than other generational groups

Partnership for Public Service

In 2021, Generation Z had fewer Black federal employees than the average for all age groups, and those employees saw higher rates of attrition than their Gen Z counterparts of other races. Those in Gen Z were born between 1997 and 2012, making them less than 25 years old in 2021. has ever seen, this trend is concerning.

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How to Prevent and Reduce Illegal Dumping

Center for Community Progress

And Illegal dumpers are hard to find and hold accountable, so they often return. The City of Camden reported spending $4 million a year responding to illegal dumping and removed 7,000 tons of illegally dumped material in 2019 alone. Cleaning up illegal dumping drains tax dollars.