The initiative to reshape the geography of employment in eastern Kentucky entices remote workers to relocate to Appalachia and receive financial incentives.
Five counties in Eastern Kentucky have embraced a new economic development tool that focuses on people who can bring their jobs and significant economic value with them, according to a
A study commissioned by CES reveals that the scratch card player profile includes people with less education, less income and worse mental health indicators.
Lockdown increased smoking and drinking
A University of Minho study has concluded that alcohol, tobacco and junk food consumption increased from the first to the second lockdown, and that stress and anxiety had similar levels at the beginning of both.
The conclusions of the study, led by researchers at the Medical School of the University of Minho (UMinho) Pedro Morgado and Maria Picó-Perez, to which Lusa had access, indicate that the consumption of gambling and cannabis also recorded an increase from the confinement started in March 2020 to the one started in January 2021.
The same research highlights the adaptation to the confinements as it took place, since in both stress levels, anxiety and depressive symptoms, which reached identical levels in 2020 and 2021, were decreasing over time .
Scratch cards to fund cultural heritage By TPN/Lusa, in News, Curiosity · 05-03-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
The Government is to create a new scratch card to finance investments in the country’s cultural heritage however this move has been criticised for funding projects through “addiction”.
The president of the Economic and Social Council (CES), Francisco Assis, will be promoting a study on the social impact of scratch card addiction and will inform the Government in the hope that it will respond in relation to the launch of the new instant lottery (scratch card).
“The Government should reconsider the launch of a new instant lottery, which is foreseen in the State Budget. (.) If I had government responsibilities, I would wait, at least, for the study that CES will conduct”, said Francisco Assis to Lus