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☆ Opinion: Campaign despair is crushing our mental health
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Opinion Maggie Mulqueen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

So now, rather than staying up to date with current events, my patients are withdrawing as much as possible from the news. Withdrawing from political information or solicitations is an active stance as contrasted with the more common idea of disengagement or apathy, which is a passive stance. Their sense of purpose comes from maintaining an active stance of withdrawal as a silent protest against a system that feels broken and unfair. Having a sense of agency is better for mental health than acquiescence, but it can be tricky to find the line between being informed versus overwhelmed. However, developing a sense of purpose is a more effective antidote to despair than active withdrawal.

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☆ To avoid talking politics with friends or co-workers, try the 'white flag approach,' Stanford communication expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

As November's general election creeps closer, it's likely that more political discourse will seep into your social gatherings. For many Americans, these discussions can be uncomfortable, especially if their political leanings differ from those of their friends. In 2020, almost one-fourth, 22%, of registered voters said they have friends who support a presidential candidate they do not, according to data from Pew Research Center. There are a few ways to handle unwanted political talk, says Matt Abrahams, a Stanford University lecturer and communications expert. The key to seamlessly navigating political discourse when you don't want to discuss your views is to "signal understanding, but not necessarily agreement," he says.

Persons: November's, Matt Abrahams Organizations: Pew Research, Stanford University

☆ Opinion: The dangers in leaving TikTok at Beijing’s disposal
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —For many of the 170 million TikTok users in the United States, Wednesday’s vote in the House of Representatives to effectively ban the social media platform is worrisome. That’s just one reason why it’s laughable to hear China’s foreign ministry claim that the TikTok bill would disrupt market operations and undermine investor confidence. Most of the world’s most popular social media apps, incidentally, are banned in China unless they — or their user data — are locally based and thus easily overseen by the government. She has had multiple meetings with legislators and has spoken with Trump about protecting TikTok, according to the Washington Post. The government needs to develop oversight rules for all social media.

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☆ The House Vote to Force Tik Tok’s Sale Is a Mistake - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Julia Angwin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But there is an issue on which both sides agree: We need more privacy and TikTok should not be banned. And only 31 percent of Americans favor a nationwide ban on TikTok, according to a February Associated Press-NORC opinion poll. Despite public sentiment, the U.S. House passed legislation on Wednesday by an overwhelming majority that could force TikTok to divest from control by its Chinese parent company or be banned. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is based in China, and American lawmakers say they are pursuing a ban in the name of protecting U.S. data from the Chinese government. But lawmakers are not pursuing comprehensive federal privacy legislation that would protect Americans’ data across all the apps they use.

Persons: TikTok Organizations: Pew Research, Associated Press, U.S . House Locations: China

☆ Equal Pay Day highlights an up to $1.2 million salary shortfall for women of color
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Based on today's wage gap, a woman just starting out will lose $399,600 over a 40-year career, according to the National Women's Law Center. The pay gap worsens significantly for Black and Latina women. For Black women, the lifetime wage gap adds up to $884,800, and for Latina women, the losses total $1,218,000, the nonprofit advocacy group found. Why the gender pay gap persistsThere is no single explanation for why progress toward narrowing the pay gap has mostly stalled, according to a separate report by the Pew Research Center. What it takes to achieve progressNo "one thing" is going to close the wage gap, Tucker said.

Persons: Jasmine Tucker, Tucker, Ofronama Biu, Biu Organizations: Census, National Women's Law, National Women's, Center's, Black, Latina, Pew Research Center, Urban Institute, Employers

He has repeatedly accused three Black prosecutors investigating him of “reverse racism.” He told a gathering of Black Republicans that Black people like him because he, too, has been charged by the criminal justice system. There’s a fundamental tension in Donald J. Trump’s attempts to woo Black voters. Public polling shows him faring better with Black voters than any Republican presidential candidate has in decades. Mr. Trump currently receives nearly four times the support from Black voters in polling than the 6 percent who actually voted for him in 2016, according to Pew Research Center data. The margins of victory are expected to be small in those four states, where Mr. Trump hopes to offset his potential weaknesses with independent voters and suburban women.

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☆ Polls Missing US Economy's Strength Will Make the Next Recession Worse
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( George Pearkes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

By underweighting the experience of certain groups — especially lower-income or frontline workers — policymakers could learn the wrong lessons from the post-pandemic economy. The Great DivergenceIf you ask Americans how the economy is doing, the general sentiment can be summed up in one word: bad. Similarly, the Conference Board's consumer confidence data isn't quite at its post-Great Recession lows, but it's far below its 2017-19 average. The ASEC data uses a very large sample to provide the best possible insight into households' economic well-being, with more than 75,000 households participating. Similarly, the focus on the prospect of a recession soared, even outdoing the period in 2020 when the economy was actually in a recession.

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☆ More than a third of teens say they spend too much time on their phones, new study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Around 40% of teenagers say they have cut back on their time on social media, according to a report published Monday by the Pew Research Center. Nearly the same proportion of teens acknowledge that they spend “too much” time on their smartphones (38%) and social media (27%). However, some revealed mixed emotions, as 44% of the teens surveyed said they feel anxious when they’re without their phones. Many parents also say they are keeping tabs on their teens’ smartphone and social media use, with half of parent respondents reporting they’ve looked through their children’s phones, particularly parents of younger teens. (And in most cases, their children seem to know it: 43% of teen respondents said their parents had looked through their phones.)

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☆ Meet the typical retiree: A married woman in her 70s living on $30,000 a year in Maine or Florida
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

They're likely married, stopped their education after high school, and are making up a bigger share of the population in states like Maine and Florida. Even when they've been married once, women are still more likely than men to hold no retirement savings. Per Gallup, the average retirement age in the US has been rising. Similarly, Americans' "target" retirement age increased from 60 in 1995 to 66 in 2022. The "full" retirement age to receive maximum Social Security benefits is 67 for those born after 1960.

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☆ The pandemic forced many women to leave their jobs. Hybrid work is bringing them back.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A rise in remote and hybrid jobs has allowed many women to seek higher-income roles. A narrowing of gender labor force gap since 2019 has added about $1.5 trillion to global income. Many women were forced to leave their jobs during the pandemic, thanks to poor market conditions and a rising need for childcare and older adult care. In the US, around 70% of working-age women participated in the labor force in 2020. Remote jobs also offer more flexibility.

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☆ Inside a Michigan Town's War Over a Chinese-Owned Battery Plant
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Brent Crane | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +24 min

This was nothing short of a communist invasion, in his eyes, and the patriots of Green Charter needed to rise up and confront the Red Peril. But the backlash in Green Charter represents something seldom seen since the Red Scare: a quasi-militant, homegrown resistance to the perceived threat of communism at home. But as the war over Gotion began to consume Green Charter, Riebow began to feel that the township board was behaving "too secretly." It's easy to dismiss what's happened in Green Charter as yet another sign of America's descent into dangerous incivility. Asked about Gotion's plans in Green Charter, Panetta replied, "I don't think there's any question that they are going to take advantage of that situation."

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☆ Atheists are still reluctant to ‘come out’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Just like people of faith, not all atheists believe the same things. Because atheists are defined by what they don’t believe, it’s difficult to generalize what they do believe. What do atheists believe? Nearly a third of atheists believe humans have souls or spirits in addition to their physical body. It's hard to talk about atheists as a large group because they're defined by what they don't believe in.

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☆ What dream job? Gen Z and millennials are being forced to confront a difficult job market.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The unemployment rate rose to 3.9% last month, the highest level in two years. AdvertisementGen Z and millennials entering the job market or in the early stages of their careers are facing a much tougher job market than in recent years, and many are adjusting their expectations for a dream career as the hiring landscape worsens. Despair about the ailing job market looks most acute among recent graduates, or students quickly approaching their graduation dates. AdvertisementOnly 44% of workers under 30 said they were "very satisfied" with their job, according to a 2023 Pew Research study. The job market boomed during the pandemic, with the unemployment rate going from 6.4% at the beginning of 2021 to 3.5% at the end of 2022.

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☆ Opinion: Biden gave the speech of his life
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Opinion Cnn Contributors | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +29 min

CNN —CNN Opinion asked political and policy contributors to weigh in on President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. David Gergen: Biden just rewrote the presidential racePresident Joe Biden not only delivered perhaps the best speech of his life last night; he may have also changed the race itself. Roxanne Jones: Biden finally sounds like he’s ready to fightPresident Joe Biden finally has my attention. At the end of his speech, Biden reminded voters that he “grew up among working people” in Scranton. In his State of the Union speech, Biden had to answer the mail on all of these.

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Tech firms and Silicon Valley billionaires have been pouring money into nuclear energy for years, pitching the sustainable power source as crucial to the green transition. While generative AI has grown at lightning speed, nuclear power projects are heavily regulated and usually advance at a plodding pace. That's raising questions about whether advances in nuclear energy can cut emissions as swiftly as energy-guzzling AI and other fast-growing technologies are adding to them. The nuclear power industry hasn't meaningfully expanded its share of the U.S. energy mix for decades. By one estimate, up to 800 gigawatts of new nuclear power will be needed by 2050 to meet current green energy targets.

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☆ China is getting hyped over a suggestion that people get more than 5 days of paid time off
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Current laws give employees five days of annual paid time off, which increases to 10 days after they have worked 10 years, and 15 days if they have worked for 20 years or more. Fok's proposal would let young workers scale their annual leave from five to 10 days until they hit the 10-year mark. His suggestion sparked hopes on Weibo, China's version of X, that the country might soon align with international paid leave standards. The International Labor Organization recommends three weeks of paid annual leave. AdvertisementShanghai-based outlet The Paper ran an informal poll on Tuesday, asking if its readers felt they could take vacation days.

Persons: —, Kenneth Fok, Fok, we've, Jack Ma Organizations: Service, People's, China Youth, International Labor Organization, China, Daily, Business, Ministry of Human Resources, Social Security, Pew Research Center Locations: China, Hong Kong, Kong, Beijing, Weibo, Shanghai

☆ AI deepfakes are poised to enter court proceedings at time of low trust in legal system
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Rachel Curry | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"The chances of someone abusing this technology today is likely already happening," said Jay Madheswaran, CEO and co-founder of AI legal case assistant Eve. This is a threat to the judicial system around the world. The risk of alteration in the judicial processIn addition to the risk of altered evidence, streamlining court reporting with AI opens up the doors to alteration. Traditional court reports take an oath of accuracy and impartiality, something that could be lost with AI without appropriate legislation. According to the National Artificial Intelligence Act of 2020, AI can "make predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing real or virtual environments."

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☆ Where Electric Vehicles Are (and Aren’t) Taking Off Across the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Nadja Popovich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Where Electric Vehicles Are (and Aren’t) Taking Off Across the U.S.Last year, Americans bought more than one million fully electric cars, trucks and SUVs, a record and a milestone for the country’s transition away from gas-powered vehicles. To fight climate change, the Biden administration and many state governments want to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. experience from pretty easy and kind of hard,” said Ken Kurani, a researcher focused on electric vehicles at the University of California, Davis. Only two electric vehicles in the analysis, both made by Tesla, cost the same or less than similar gas models. But for now, “there are some very real ways in which, in comparison to conventional vehicles, electric vehicles either really are still struggling to be as good or better, or are struggling against the imagination that they’re not as good or better,” he said.

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☆ Retirement prospects for women can be ‘pretty bleak,’ expert says — but there are ways to prepare
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

About 50% of women ages 55 to 66 have no personal retirement savings, a higher share than men (47%), according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Those who do have retirement savings are less likely to have $100,000 or more (22% vs. 30%). "The picture is pretty bleak for women" who don't save enough for retirement, Cindy Hounsell, founder and president of the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement, said Tuesday at CNBC's Women & Wealth event. watch nowThey may become burdens on their children if they have kids who can offer financial support, she said at the Women & Wealth event. Compounding the problem: Caregiving, especially for a spouse, has a "more detrimental economic impact" on women, according to the National Institute on Retirement Security.

Persons: Momo, Cindy Hounsell, Marianela Collado, Collado Organizations: Stone, Getty, Census, Women's Institute, CNBC's, Pew Research, Security, Financial, National Institute on Retirement Security Locations: U.S, Plantation , Florida

☆ 11 shows Gen Z missed out on that millennials were obsessed with
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Skylar Celeste Boone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Between the '90s and the 2010s, millennials loved shows like "Sister, Sister" and "Moesha." Here are the shows that millennials loved growing up. For millennials, shows like "Sister, Sister" and "Gossip Girl" were key to their pre-teen and teenage years. A millennial is defined as someone born between 1981 and 1996, according to the Pew Research Center, while members of Gen Z were born after 1997. That range means that some millennials loved shows that came out in the mid-'90s, while others enjoyed shows that premiered in the 2010s.

Persons: millennials, —, Gen Z, Gen Organizations: Service, Pew Research Center, Business

While a number of AI systems have been found to discriminate, tipping the scales in favor of certain races, genders or incomes, there’s scant government oversight. Those bills, along with the over 400 AI-related bills being debated this year, were largely aimed at regulating smaller slices of AI. The use of AI to make consequential decisions — what the bills call “automated decision tools” — is pervasive but largely hidden. The AI was trained to assess new resumes by learning from past resumes — largely male applicants. Requirements to routinely test an AI system aren’t in most of the legislative proposals, nearly all of which still have a long road ahead.

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☆ TikTok faces more heat in Washington, as House members introduce legislation demanding ByteDance divestiture
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The bill says TikTok is controlled by a foreign adversary and poses a threat to U.S. national security. Earlier attempts to ban TikTok in the U.S. appear to have stalled, leaving some states like Montana to try and impose their own bans. The Pew Research Center released a survey in December showing that support for a U.S. government ban on TikTok is declining. The survey showed that 38% of U.S. adults support a TikTok ban as of October compared to 50% in March. WATCH: The Biden campaign joins TikTok, despite ban on app on government phones.

Persons: Mike Gallagher, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Gallagher, ByteDance, Shou Zi Chew, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, TikTok, Biden's, Z Organizations: Lawmakers, TikTok, U.S, Chinese Communist Party, Apple, Google, Pew Research Center, Biden Locations: U.S, TikTok, Washington ,, United States, Montana

☆ Just over half of Americans over the age of 65 are earning under $30,000 a year, and it shows how stark the retirement crisis is
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Many older Americans are financially vulnerable, with over half living on incomes of $30,000 or less a year. And, as Sanders' report notes, about 10% of older Americans live in poverty, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Without Social Security income, around 38% of Americans 65 and older would be living below the poverty line. Even so, America's Social Security benefits lag behind many other wealthy countries; benefits amount to, on average, 51.8% of workers' earnings across the OECD. All of that comes as older Americans see their adult children leaning on them financially, as Gen Zers and millennials weather their own economic storms.

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☆ Immigration is 'taking pressure off' the job market and U.S. economy, expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said the increase in foreign-born workers is "taking pressure off the economy." The growth in foreign-born workers comes amid a contentious immigration policy debate in the U.S. Immigrants' share of the labor force has increased since 1996, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began collecting such data. A growing population and labor force are key components of a healthy economy and the nation's ability to pay its bills, economists said. In other words, the economy is both absorbing immigrants and generating job opportunities for U.S.-born workers, the institute said.

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☆ Top executives say they’re training workers on AI. Managers and employees disagree
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Rachel Curry | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

There's a disconnect between the level of AI training that leadership teams believe they're giving their employees and the level of training that managers and employees think they're getting, research shows. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of C-suite executives believe their company fully embraces generative AI, including training for the technology, according to a 2023 Upwork survey. "Executives sometimes have a broad-brush approach to AI training," said Apratim Purakayastha, chief technology officer at Skillsoft. Plus, they were 1.9 times more likely to have a formal generative AI skills program in place for their workforce, as well as 3.8 times more likely to have a well-defined generative AI strategy. Generative AI, Monahan notes, can usher in a new era of productivity — if we let it.

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