tagesschau (25.05.2017) Schluss mit Obamacare - das hat US-Präsident Trump versprochen. Laut einer unabhängigen Schätzung könnte seine Reform der Krankenversicherung jedoch 14 Millionen Amerikaner die Absicherung kosten - innerhalb eines Jahres. Auch andere Zahlen sprechen für Obamacare.
Washington Examiner (18.05.2017) Total continuing claims for unemployment benefits ran at the lowest level in 28 years at the beginning of May, the Department of Labor reported Thursday morning in a new sign that the jobs market is still improving.
Big Data’s Impact on Social Services
By Lindsey Getz
Social Work Today
Vol. 14 No. 2 P. 28
The amount of data being produced and used on a daily basis has exploded, and that increasing volume has required new solutions for processing and managing it. Nicknamed “Big Data,” the generation of all this information and how to analyze it have implications that affect the social work profession.
Ride-hailing company partners with nuTonomy in latest battle with US rival
Ride-hailing company Lyft, Uber’s chief US rival, will begin its first pilot programme for self-driving taxis in Boston later this year in conjunction with nuTonomy, the autonomous car start-up.
The partnership will present a new competitive challenge to Uber, which recently fired its top self-driving engineer and is in the middle of a trade secrets lawsuit from Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet.
What will the workforce of the future look like, and how can we accelerate the transformation of institutions, organizations, and human skills to keep up with the quickening pace of digital innovation? The IDE helps businesses understand how the digital economy will improve job creation and wage equality in the years to come. Our research also seeks to create a better method of measuring the health of an economy in the context of the digital age.
Le Monde (25.05.2017) Le bureau du budget du Congrès a expertisé le texte abrogeant et remplaçant l’Affordable Care Act de 2010. Il doit encore être examiné et voté par le Sénat.
tagesschau (25.05.2017) Schluss mit Obamacare - das hat US-Präsident Trump versprochen. Laut einer unabhängigen Schätzung könnte seine Reform der Krankenversicherung jedoch 14 Millionen Amerikaner die Absicherung kosten - innerhalb eines Jahres. Auch andere Zahlen sprechen für Obamacare.
The week (16.05.2017) Everybody has his or her own view of retirement. Does yours involve working beyond a typical retirement age, or even failing to retire at all? A recent survey from CareerBuilder shows that a substantial number of Americans are expecting something other than a traditional retirement.
Aux Etats-Unis, l'introduction d'un robot pour 1.000 salariés détruit 5 à 6 emplois, selon une étude de chercheurs du MIT et de la Boston University.
