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Online Learning in Community Colleges – Tools to facilitate student success
Community colleges have embraced distance education as a means to provide increased flexibility and access to their large numbers of non-traditional students. Retention rates and student achievement measures alone may not reflect all of the benefits and opportunities that online learning, blended or hybrid learning, and technology-enhanced learning may afford these students. Online learning resources … Continue reading
Teleworking – How to be a successful and persuasive communicator
As social distancing becomes the new normal throughout the U.S. and the world, professionals across industries are making drastic and immediate changes to their work and presentation styles. Remote work was a rising trend before the COVID-19 pandemic, with regular work-at-home growing 173 percent since 2005. With so many additional businesses moving to a work-at-home structure … Continue reading
COVID – Lifting lockdowns and the economic recovery
The pandemic could give rise to a new era of human development. Otherwise, economic and social development may falter for decades. Exhibit 1 shows how different levels of physical isolation affect economic conditions. A recession could occur if faltering demand, restricted supply, and lost income reach critical levels. The differences between scenarios could be tenfold: … Continue reading
COVID and Jobs in Canada – Nearly 3 in 10 Canadians report that it affects their ability to meet financial obligations or essential needs
Nearly 3 in 10 (29.0%) Canadians reported that the COVID-19 situation is having a moderate or major impact on their ability to meet financial obligations or essential needs such as rent or mortgage payments, utilities and groceries. A further 23.8% said it was too soon to tell, while just under one-half (47.2%) reported minor or no impact. At the time of … Continue reading
COVID et l’Emploi au Canada – Un peu plus du tiers des travailleurs craignent perdre leur emploi au cours des quatre prochaines semaines dit Statistique Canada
Les arrêts de l’activité économique provoqués par la COVID-19 ont eu des répercussions soudaines et profondes sur le marché du travail canadien. Les données de l’Enquête sur la population active (EPA) de mars ont révélé que l’emploi a diminué de plus de 1 million de février à mars. De plus, 2,1 millions de Canadiens sont demeurés en emploi, mais avaient … Continue reading
COVID and Teleworking – 15 tips and tricks on How to use Zoom (free PDF) from TechRepublic
Video conferencing has become more important than ever, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic. Zoom, a popular social platform, has experienced a surge of new users ranging from remote workers to schools. Zoom combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration, enabling users to meet locally, nationally, and globally on any device, anywhere, at any … Continue reading
COVID and Work in Mexico- Killing workers at U.S. factories
Throughout March, even as business and manufacturing slowed to a halt across much of the world in an effort to contain the new coronavirus, work in foreign-owned factories in northern Mexico carried on as usual.Hundreds of thousands of workers continued to toil side by side in Juarez, Tijuana and other border cities, churning out electronics, … Continue reading
COVID ans Unemployment in LA – Less than half of Los Angeles County residents report having jobs, survey finds
According to a University of Southern California study, Los Angeles has been one of the American cities hit hardest by unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic, with just less than half residents reporting that they held a job in April. Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story @ Less Than Half Of Los Angeles County … Continue reading
COVID and UI in US – Changes in state Unemployment Insurance rules
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented expansion in unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility across states. While more than forty states had modified UI rules by the end of March, not all states responded in the same way. In this article, I summarize the changes to state UI rules in response to the crisis and explore … Continue reading
COVID, Jobs and Lockdown in UK – Can take more than 6.5m jobs out of the economy
Estimates produced by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex suggest the lockdown can take more than 6.5m jobs out of the economy -around a quarter of the total.The study led by Professor Matteo Richiardi with ISER researcher Diego Collado uses ONS data to predict job losses by sector.Using … Continue reading
COVID and Lockdown – The costs of constraining the virus and the benefits
Some economists and business leaders believe the costs of constraining the virus have exceeded the benefits. They point to unemployment totals not seen since the Depression and entire industries shut down, compared to virus death totals that may reach only the numbers from a bad flu season (55,000).As more data become available, the epidemiological trajectory … Continue reading
COVID and Health Insurance in US – 9.2 million workers likely lost their employer-provided health insurance in the past four weeks
We estimate that 9.2 million workers were at high risk of losing their employer-provided health insurance in the past four weeks. To avoid prohibitively costly insurance options, the federal government should fund an expansion of Medicare and Medicaid to all those suffering job losses during the pandemic period.Two weeks ago, when the two-week total of … Continue reading
COVID and Lockdown Lifting in US – 66% say they are more concerned that these restrictions will be lifted too quickly
With substantial limits in place on public activity in most states to combat the coronavirus outbreak, 66% of Americans say they are more concerned that these restrictions will be lifted too quickly, while 32% say they are more concerned they won’t be lifted quickly enough.With substantial limits in place on public activity in most states … Continue reading
COVID – Professor Johan Giesecke, advisor to the Swedish Government, on lockdowns
Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an advisor to the director general of the WHO, lays out with typically Swedish bluntness why … Continue reading
COVID, CERB and Social Assistance in Ontario – Reinstating benefits to those who lost them after receiving emergency relief payments
Ontario’s indecision over how to treat federal income support for workers on social assistance during the COVID-19 crisis has caused at least one person with disabilities to lose his benefits, including drug and medical coverage, the Star has learned.“We’ve been warning the government this would happen,” said Kyle Vose, co-chair of the ODSP Action Coalition … Continue reading
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