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“From the research of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, so far, one thing is absolutely clear: Technological change is transforming our work, our lives, and our society and fortunately, the harsh societal consequences that concern us all are not inevitable,” said MIT President L. Rafael Reif at the start of “From Research to Action: Work of the Future,” on Feb. 19.
The event was the second in the MIT Forefront series, which seeks to find bold, new answers to urgent global problems. It reached more than 33,000 people from all over the world and featured discussion among industry, labor, and education leaders about how to create greater shared prosperity.
Mar. 12, 2021
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights the racial and gender divides of the coronavirus pandemic, this time among a group of people who have been considered relatively safe from covid-19′s worst impacts: young adults.
According to the analysis, among young people between the ages of 15 and 24, women of color were most likely to contract the virus over the last year.
The report, based on data collected from 16 U.S. jurisdictions, looked at fluctuations in covid cases since the start of the pandemic. At the outset, young people of color were much more likely than their White peers to contract covid. As the pandemic progressed, some of those gaps have closed, but overall, young women of color tested positive for covid at higher rates than others in their age group.
For some special interests, a fading coronavirus pandemic poses a problem, but not always an insurmountable one.
Big Labor and its acolytes cite the virus as a compelling reason for doubling the minimum wage and forcing businesses to provide more paid sick leave, while the Biden administration is using the pandemic as part of its justification for overhauling immigration toward eventual amnesty
for undocumented migrants.
Meanwhile, the left-leaning Brookings Institution has successfully persuaded the federal government to allocate more money to child care programs in the name of pandemic safety.
These changes have long been on the policy wish lists of advocates, but in a time of pandemic they evoke words widely attributed to Winston Churchill: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Or as a headline this week might sum up a new urgency: “The U.S. Is Edging Toward Normal, Alarming Some Officials.”
Today, we have the likes of Kamala Harris, Tsai Ing-wen, Naomi Osaka, Sarah Al-Amiri a few of the many women who have won the respect of the international community with inspiring leadership and achievements in their respective fields. Whether it’s showing how to effectively fight a pandemic, restoring peace in a polarised democracy, triggering important social movements or charting a new course in space exploration, here are some female world leaders who are giving us hope for a better tomorrow.
Kamala Harris, Vice President, US
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Kamala Harris has been a trailblazer in US politics. She was the district attorney general of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011 and attorney general of California from 2011 to 2016; and she is the first woman and the first African American to hold both posts. During this period, she made headlines for criminal justice reforms.