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Your Table Is Ready: Reopening New York City Food and Hospitality, featuring Amanda Cohen, Russell Jackson, Jonathan Tisch, and Corby Kummer Event information Contact The COVID-19 pandemic hit the food industry hard, affecting every aspect of food services from restaurant owners and workers to caterers, food banks, hotels, and schools. We invite you to a conversation with two New York City restaurant owner-chefs who helped not only their own staff but the national restaurant industry navigate t...

White Americans must own-up to the ongoing injury racism creates and the broken society it bequeaths to our children.

Diners eat lunch and have a few drinks at The Fours near North Station on the first day restaurants were allowed to serve patrons on their premises outdoors following the pandemic shutdown in 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) As vaccination rates rise and the country reopens, diners are returning to restaurants in record numbers. But what can restaurants and diners do to remain safe? And how do the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions new mask guidelines mesh with the restaurant industry? Well, C...

As restrictions fall away, operators weigh safety and economic risks of easing mask and physical distancing policies After federal health officials on Thursday gave vaccinated people a green light to ditch their face masks and sit closer together, restaurant operators were left with some difficult decisions to make. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to say vaccinated people in most settings no longer have to wear masks or remain socially distant, unless r...

We must stay safe to stay open.

Domenika Lynch Domenika Lynch is a purpose-driven, strategic and inspirational leader, a champion for women’s rights and social equity, and a longtime advocate for the Latino community.  Over the course of two decades in leadership roles, Lynch has overseen strategic planning, policy advocacy, and public affairs campaigns for nonprofits and corporations, increasing donor and stakeholder support and raising millions of dollars for organizational endowments. She skillfully facilitates internal...

Giving Restaurant Workers a Seat at the Table May 7, 2021  • David K. Gibson Restaurant workers have been hit hard by COVID-19 and the associated upheaval. According to a National Restaurant Association survey, two-thirds of workers had lost their jobs by April 2020, just two months into the pandemic. As the advocacy organization One Fair Wage notes, the industry includes seven of the 10 lowest-paying jobs in the country, and its workers are three times likelier to live in poverty than the ...

The Evolving Future of Work What makes for a decent job in the 21st century? In recent years, topics such as Artificial Intelligence, automation, and the Gig Economy frequently featured in discussions of the future of work, first as technological innovations, and then, increasingly, as potential disruptions to livelihoods and the social fabric writ large. And all of that was before the arrival of COVID-19. Do the further disruptions unleashed by the pandemic mean that the future of work is no l...

Comments Off on Vaccine Science and Policy Experts Call for Transformation of Vaccine R&D Enterprise WASHINGTON, May 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As the world continues to grapple with the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global community faces an urgent need to develop an efficient, coordinated and sustainable model for a healthy and well-functioning vaccine research and development (R&D) ecosystem. In a new report, “Powering Vaccine R&D: Opportunities for Transformation,...

(0) WASHINGTON, May 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the world continues to grapple with the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global community faces an urgent need to develop an efficient, coordinated and sustainable model for a healthy and well-functioning vaccine research and development (R&D) ecosystem. In a new report, "Powering Vaccine R&D: Opportunities for Transformation," the Sabin-Aspen Vaccine Science & Policy Group uses lessons learned from the rapid development of COV...