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Topics will include addressing health equity, social determinants of health, incentives for increased innovation, and AI and the opportunities and challenges it presents in promoting equitable workforce development systems.

by Susan A. Hughes May 19, 2021 The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard Kennedy School hosted the first town hall organized by the Future of Tech Commission, an independent and bipartisan group of civic leaders whose goal is to inform the Biden administration about challenges related to technology and to create a comprehensive blueprint for forward-looking, inclusive tech policy. The event, titled “A Public Discussion on Creating Safe, He...

6 While Deval Patrick fell well short in his bid for president, the former Massachusetts governor is still working to influence policy coming out of the White House. As the country emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, Patrick is spearheading an effort to advise President Joe Biden’s administration on the knotty and sweeping subject of technology as one of the three co-chairs of the newly formed Future of Tech Commission. The private, bipartisan group is planning to spend the next few months ho...

The Electronic Frontier Act is designed at helping the United States compete with China.

It’s going to be a rough week for Providence schools The Senate oversight committee will be scrutinizing hiring practices, and the president of the American Federation of Teachers will be in town to tour schools By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated May 17, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten speaks during a rally for Scranton school board candidates in Scranton, Pa. on Saturday, May 15, 2021.Christopher Dolan/Associated Press If you ...

Michigan dips (and since this is a one-week average, this might be meaningful). Minnesota follows Michigan’s upward trend. Illinois emerging from the pack? MI: “Feds won’t play ‘whack-a-mole’ by sending more vaccines to Michigan” [Detroit Free Press]. “The federal government will not change its COVID-19 vaccine distribution strategy, “playing whack-a-mole,” by sending more doses to Michigan, said Andy Slavitt, White House senior adviser for COVID-19 response, during a Monday m...