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Forget highways, Bay Area s biggest traffic jam right now is on the bay
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There were 15 huge cargo ships anchored south of the Bay Bridge at midweek. Nine more big ships were waiting in the Pacific, steaming up and down offshore between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay.Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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Container ships sitting idle in the bay just outside the Port of Oakland face long delays in part because of a pandemic-related shortage of dock workers.Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
For the past few weeks, San Francisco Bay has been packed with huge cargo ships. There were 15 of them anchored south of the Bay Bridge at midweek. There is so much ship traffic that there is not enough room inside the bay for them all to anchor safely. Nine more big ships were waiting in the Pacific, steaming up and down 20 to 30 miles offshore between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay.
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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
NorthBay Healthcare nurse Joy Duropan gives the Covid-19 vaccine to Malia Bolko at a mass vaccination event at The Salvation Army Kroc Center in Suisun City, Monday, March 15, 2021. (Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic)
Kroc Center home to Suisun City vaccination clinic
Some stood in a gentle afternoon rain while waiting to check in.
Inside the building was a well-organized system with the goal of administering 1,500 vaccinations, said Ben Gammon, Solano County’s EMS coordinator.
More than 750 had been vaccinated by 1 p.m. The last check-in would be 4 p.m., he said.
“We are completely booked,” Gammon said. “If they meet the criteria, we try to fit them in.”
From a 2020 paper in the
Quarterly Journal of Economics by Raj Chetty on college admissions to Ivy League colleges (plus Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Duke). It features Chetty’s usual immense sample sizes from theoretically secret data sources (IRS, Census, testing agencies, etc.) that nobody had the chutzpah before to think that they could data mine:
Chetty et al write:
The impacts of income-neutral allocations at the most selective colleges differ from those in the broader population. At Ivy-Plus colleges, the fraction of students from the bottom quintile remains essentially unchanged under income-neutral allocations in absolute terms (rising from 3.8% to 4.4%), but the fraction of students from the middle class (the second, third, and fourth income quintiles) rises sharply, from 27.8% to 37.9%, as shown in Table VI. Figure V, Panel A shows why we see the biggest effects on the representation of the middle class by plotting the parental income distribution of high SAT/ACT (≥1300