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☆ Assaults on German Politicians Raise Election-Year Worries
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Christopher F. Schuetze | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A spate of attacks on German officials and politicians has brought fresh worries over political violence and a breakdown of civility ahead of several critical elections this year, including in three states where the far-right Alternative for Germany party could make significant gains. In the latest attack, on Friday evening, four people assaulted a prominent Social Democratic politician who was hanging campaign posters in Dresden, leaving him with a broken cheekbone and eye socket that required emergency surgery. The official, Matthias Ecke, is running for re-election to the European Parliament. That evening a Green Party campaigner, whose name has not been released, was attacked in the same residential neighborhood, by what the police believe was the same group of people. A day earlier, on Thursday, Rolf Fliss, the deputy mayor of the city of Essen, 300 miles west, was punched in the face by a group of men with whom he had been having what he initially characterized as a “friendly exchange.”The violent attack on Mr. Ecke drew a sharp response from Chancellor Olaf Scholz, himself a Social Democrat, in Berlin on Saturday.

Persons: Matthias Ecke, Rolf Fliss, Ecke, Chancellor Olaf Scholz Organizations: Social Democratic, Green Party, Social Democrat Locations: Germany, Dresden, Essen, Berlin

☆ Teen hands himself into police after attack on German politician
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Stephanie Halasz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A 17-year-old boy handed himself in to police after admitting that he attacked a German politician on Friday. The SPD Saxony branch blamed the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) for the violence. “Yesterday our top candidate for the European elections Matthias Ecke was attacked while he was installing posters and seriously injured. The seeds sown by the AfD and other right-wing extremists are sprouting,” SPD Saxony said on X Saturday. We must stand together against them.”“I wish Matthias Ecke a speedy recovery,” Scholz said.

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☆ Small practices are struggling to stay afloat 3 weeks after the cyberattack that crippled the US healthcare industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

It's been three weeks since a cyberattack on an under-the-radar but critical technology company caused the payments that flow between healthcare providers and insurers to grind to a halt nationwide. The US healthcare system has been crippled by the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, the company owned by UnitedHealth Group that connects healthcare providers and pharmacies to insurers and facilitates 15 billion transactions each year. And some patients can't afford their prescriptions because pharmacies can't process drug coupons. For many healthcare providers, UnitedHealth and the federal government's response to the ongoing crisis has fallen short. Industry groups including the American Hospital Association and American Medical Association urged the federal government to provide emergency financial support to healthcare providers.

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☆ The remote work revolution is crashing into a cold reality: Research is finding workers are less productive at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Recent research found that fully remote workers were less productive than office workers. A recent analysis of multiple studies by the Stanford economist Nick Bloom, a leading remote-work expert, found that fully remote workers were 10% to 20% less productive than their in-office counterparts. But the research has found, on average, those working in the office at least some of the time are more productive . Even Zoom, which is synonymous with remote work, recently called some employees back to the office for at least two days a week. Bloom recently estimated 60% of Americans worked fully in person, 30% worked in person between one and four days per week, and 10% worked fully remotely.

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