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A Striving Government for a Thriving City
What can Mamdani’s Charter Revision Commission really accomplish? For many New Yorkers, government inefficiency is a personal experience. It is the months an apartment building waits for a permit — a delay that shows up later in higher rents. It is the extra time a family spends in a shelter because an intractable process cannot get them into an available home. It is sidewalk sheds that sit for years and road repairs that never come.
Abundance On a Budget
What pro-housing, pro-public service Mayor Mamdani ought to do with limited resources It is budget season and New York is arguing about the numbers as City Hall and its defenders and opponents frame their tax proposals. Is the mayor’s proposed tax increase on high earners 2% or 2 percentage points? (It’s two more percentage points on incomes over $1 million.) Is an alternative property tax increase 9.5% or 1.17 percentage points?
Why am I compared to an average? - Nature Reviews Neurology
Robert Joyce has lived with multiple sclerosis for over 30 years. Here, he highlights the problems with using standard test scores to assess changes in physical and cognitive function and calls for testing to ensure that individual baselines are recorded.
Authors Response: ‘Respiratory Function Monitor-Are We Ready for Its Use?’
Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.
Respiratory Function Monitoring and Visual Attention in Resuscitating Term Infants: A Manikin‐Based Randomised Crossover Trial
A respiratory function monitor (RFM) may help to optimise manual ventilation technique in neonatal resuscitation. In a randomised crossover simulation trial during which the visual attention of providers was monitored, having a RFM visible did not reduce the time taken to provide 30 s of effective PPV. A RFM introduces a competing interest for VA in a resuscitation and requires further study incorporating clinical training to justify its use.
Addressing the Humans in the Delivery Room-Optimising Neonatal Monitoring and Decision-Making in Transition
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Hours of work and the long‐run effects of in‐work transfers
1 INTRODUCTION The growth of ‘in-work’ transfers, such as Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the USA and Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) in the UK, has been a major development in transfer policy in developed economies in recent decades. These have been viewed as a tool for raising living standards among low-earning households, but also, crucially, for changing incentives.
Randomised cross-over study of thin catheters used for less invasive surfactant delivery in a newborn manikin
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Unpicking the weird child benefit tax risks a host of new problems
Child benefit used to be universal, in recognition of the extra costs of bringing up children – no matter your income. But in 2013, under the pressures of austerity, the coalition Government chose to focus scarce resources on those with lower incomes. Well, sort of. The “High Income Child Benefit Charge” is a highly irregular way of making a benefit income-related. Formally, it is a tax paid by the highest-income parent in the household. Currently it kicks in when their income rises above £50,000.
Evaluating public and patient involvement in interventional research - a newly developed checklist (EPPIIC) with application to the COB-MS feasibility trial | medRxiv
The authors have declared no competing interest. NA- this research is not reporting on a clinical trial. It is, however, evaluating PPI in a clinical trial - ISRCTN: ISRCTN11462710. Registered on 9 September 2019 and updated on 23 September 2020. https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-023-07080-y Yes I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.
[2309.06643] Semi-supervised Classification of Malware Families Under Extreme Class Imbalance via Hierarchical Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Automatic Model Selection
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Twenty‐five years of income inequality in Britain: the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This paper updates and extends the analysis in Belfield et al. (2017). The authors would like to thank the Nuffield Foundation for funding through the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, and members of the Deaton Review panel for helpful comments. The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance social well-being. It funds research that informs social policy, primarily in Education, Welfare, and Justice.
Technical Communications Corporation Reports Results for Original
CONCORD, Mass., May 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Technical Communications Corporation (OTCQB: TCCO) today announced its results for the fiscal quarter ended March 25, 2023. For the quarter ended March 25, 2023, the Company reported a net loss of $(629,000), or $(0.34) per share, on revenue of $27,000, compared to a net loss of $(522,000), or $(0.28) per share, on revenue of $565,000 for the quarter ended March 26, 2022.
Why Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon Film Was Never Made Original
Renowned film director Ridley Scott has been preparing an upcoming historical drama about Napoleon Bonaparte with Joaquin Phoenix playing the role of the controversial French military leader. The film, which was originally titled Kitbag before being changed to Napoleon, is said to cover Napoleon's ascension into his authoritative rule over the French Empire while also delving into the conflicted relationship with his wife Joséphine, who will be played by Vanessa Kirby.
Why Trey Edward Shults Is An Underrated Filmmaker Original
One of the most talented independent filmmakers to emerge in the past decade has managed to remain largely obscure to public audiences. His name is Trey Edward Shults, a Texas-born film director, writer, and producer whose three feature films have all gone on to receive massive acclaim from critics for their dense, emotional storytelling and technical expertise.
The Most Emotional Uses of Radiohead Songs in Film, Ranked Original
Famous for their atmospheric sound and melancholic tunes, this English rock band have managed to crop up in many notable films. Here are the best. Radiohead are often considered one of the most influential bands of the last 30 years, and are also regarded as major innovators in the alternative rock scene. Their highly-esteemed rock albums in the late 90s and early 2000s have led many to view them as a worthy successor to legendary bands like Pink Floyd and The Beatles.
The 10 Funniest Moments of Fawlty Towers, Ranked
Home TV Lists The 10 Funniest Moments of Fawlty Towers, Ranked With the announcement of a Fawlty Towers reboot, here's a look back at the classic sitcom's ten most hilarious moments. Fawlty Towers remains a celebrated touchstone of British comedy more than 45 years after its initial airing in 1975.
The long squeeze: rising inflation and the current government support package -
The existing package of support Back in May, the government updated their one-off package of support for households, which now totals £24 billion and comprised five main strands: £400 to all households labelled as an “energy discount” that will be subtracted from energy bills. £150 for all households in council tax bands A-D (around 80% of households). £650 for any family on means-tested benefits. £300 for pensioners on means-tested benefits. £150 for those on a disability benefit.
Underneath The Stars Festival
Now in its eighth year, the UTSf, organised by Kate Rusby and her family production team, has gone from strength to strength. This award winning small festival, held at Cinderhill Farm in a beautiful little corner of Barnsley, hosted an amazing rolling programme of music, learning workshops and arts for all ages. This is a truly family festival, which prides itself in attention to detail in every way.
Conservative candidates’ tax plans are increasingly similar, though still differ in scale and timing. -
Rishi Sunak has pledged that, should he become Prime Minister, the basic rate of income tax would fall to 16% by the end of the decade. That would be a 3 percentage point (ppt) cut on top of the 1ppt cut (from 20% to 19%) already planned for 2024-25. That 1ppt cut will cost about £6bn per year; the additional cut to 16% now proposed by Mr Sunak would cost an additional £19bn per year. This is a very substantial tax cut.
Why I became a patient researcher
Opinion: 'I could not have foreseen how sharing the impact of a negative in my life with strangers could be a positive experience for me' Multiple sclerosis is an illness with many symptoms, from funny sensations, like tingling fingertip, to cognitive problems. It also can lead to depression, as this cruel illness takes away your ability to live a normal life. In my case, I was lucky, as I had a medication which gave me a 10 year holiday from the many ways it had expressed itself in me.
Job opportunities after the pandemic -
Publications Commentary Research People Events News Resources and Videos About IFS Publications Commentary Research People Events News Resources and Videos About IFS Home Publications Job opportunities after the pandemic The coronavirus pandemic was an unprecedented shock to the labour market. Lockdown measures and general uncertainty led to a collapse in hiring across the economy, leading to sizeable and unequal impacts on people’s ability to work and to progress their careers.
Tax and spending policies of Conservative leadership contenders -
We are now down to the final two Conservative Party leadership contenders: Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. On 5 September we will know which of the two is the next Conservative Party leader - and therefore Prime Minister - so their visions for tax and spending matter. Below we provide some initial analysis of the plans that have been set out so far.
The cost of living crunch -
Rising inflation affects all our living standards. Together with planned tax increases it means that average take-home pay is likely to fall over the coming year. It also raises specific issues for benefits policy. Those on low incomes will tend to find it hardest to tide themselves over during a period in which their real incomes are eroded, which by default is what happens when inflation increases sharply because the major benefits go up in line with a lagged measure of inflation.
Inequality and the Covid crisis in the United Kingdom -
We review the effects on the Covid-19 pandemic on inequalities in education, the labour market, household living standards, mental health, and wealth in the UK. The pandemic has pushed up inequalities on several dimensions. School closures particular disrupted the learning of poorer children, leading to lower attainment. Mental health worsened for those groups (women and younger adults) who had poorer mental health pre-pandemic.
The impact of the NLW on wages, employment and household incomes -
The National Living Wage (NLW) is currently the government’s flagship policy aimed at helping the low-paid in the UK. It was introduced in 2016 and has been increased in each year since. In its first four years, it led to an increase in the ‘bite’ of the minimum wage (defined as its level as a fraction of the median wage) for those aged 25+ that was greater than the increase over the whole 16-year period prior to that, since the national minimum wage was introduced in 1999.
Advancing Malware Family Classification with MOTIF
Dataset provides expert-derived malware family labels Zeus. Poison Ivy. Conficker. Stuxnet. WannaCry. Even years after discovery, the names of these malware families are still infamous. But new digital threats are constantly arising. Malware production is booming. And that means network defenders must learn to categorize newly discovered malware in a blink. To succeed, they’ll need the right tools. Until now, crucial data has been unavailable.
IV Steroids Helped Me Walk Again with MS
The results weren’t permanent, but I’ll cherish the memory of regaining my mobility. Many people take walking for granted, climbing the stairs or walking into the kitchen to make a mug of coffee without thinking twice. But my multiple sclerosis (MS) has steadily been robbing me of this ability. There were 10 years when I had no symptoms of this condition — no fatigue, no sensory issues, and an ability to walk, cycle, and even run.
Pearl Harbor | StoriesBehindtheStar
2,335 servicemen died from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Our volunteers are writing ALL of their stories. Join us in honoring the WWII fallen. by Red Mulvanny, California Sgt. Rasmussen was one of the first three Americans killed at Pearl Harbor. by Robert Joyce, Florida Lt. Allen was a USS Enterprise fighter pilot who survived being shot down and parachuting into the harbor, but died of wounds. by Bobbie Jo Carter, Arizona Seaman First Class Rodgers was on the USS Arizona during the attack.
Worker mobility and labour market opportunities
We develop a measure of labour market opportunities for heterogenous types of worker, exploiting information on their suitability different jobs encoded in historical patterns of worker mobility. We provide a theoretical foundation for our measure, which features naturally in a general random search framework. Our measure is flexible in the sense that it admits general definitions of worker and job heterogeneity, and is easily implementable empirically with data on worker mobility and labour demand.
Job opportunities during the pandemic -
Reports of encouraging job vacancy numbers, and of serious labour shortages in certain sectors, dominate newspaper headlines as we emerge from the pandemic. These raise important questions. How does the highly variable situation across different sectors translate into different sets of opportunities and career prospects, and hence the likelihood of long-term economic ‘scarring’ from the pandemic, for different kinds of workers?
Job opportunities during the pandemic
Reports of encouraging job vacancy numbers, and of serious labour shortages in certain sectors, dominate newspaper headlines as we emerge from the pandemic. These raise important questions. How does the highly variable situation across different sectors translate into different sets of opportunities and career prospects, and hence the likelihood of long-term economic ‘scarring’ from the pandemic, for different kinds of workers?
Inheritances and inequality over the life cycle: what will they mean for younger generations? -
Inheritances have been growing as a share of national income in the UK since the 1970s. This trend looks set to continue as generations at older ages hold more wealth than their immediate predecessors but younger generations have no higher incomes than the generations born just before them. What will this mean for inequalities in living standards and wealth? Does the growth in inheritances mean people’s living standards will increasingly be determined by who their parents are?
Time for Cities, Counties, and School Boards to Redistrict, But No Numbers! - Coates' Canons
Update March 4, 2021: In the days since this blog was posted, readers have sent me corrections to my lists. I am very grateful. The post below is updated to fix the lists. I think they are right now, but if anyone spots problems, please let me know.
The temporary benefit uplift: extension, permanence, or a one-off bonus? -
In the immediate wake of the pandemic, the government announced a temporary increase in Universal Credit (UC) and Working Tax Credit entitlements by £20 per week (£1,040 p.a.), due to last for one year until March 2021 and benefiting around 6 million families per month.
The IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities: a New Year’s message -
A year and a half ago we launched the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities. When we did so, the chair of the Review, Nobel Laureate Sir Angus Deaton, raised the possibility that inequalities may prove a threat to our economic, social and political systems unless they are tackled effectively.
Inherited wealth on course to be a much more important determinant of lifetime resources for today’s young than it was for previous generations -
Recent decades have seen rising wealth-to-income ratios. In England, increases in wealth have been concentrated among older generations. Those born in the 1980s have accumulated no more wealth than those born in the 1970s had done by the same age, but the parents of those born in the 1980s hold 40% more wealth than the parents of those born in the 1970s held at the same age.
Inheritances and inequality within generations -
This report examines the inheritances that are likely to be received by those living in England who were born in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. We explore the age at which inheritances are likely to be received and the amounts that we expect to be inherited, focusing on key inequalities in each. All figures are in 2017–18 prices.
Career disruption caused by COVID-19 threatens prolonged cost for young workers -
There is growing evidence that the lockdown has had particularly negative impacts on young people’s labour market outcomes. New IFS research, funded by the Turing Institute, shows that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to severely disrupt the career progression of young workers, suggesting that negative economic impacts on this age group may last well beyond the easing of the lockdown.
COVID-19 and the career prospects of young people -
There is growing evidence that economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are particularly negative for young people. On the eve of the coronavirus outbreak, workers aged below 25 were more likely than other workers to be employed in sectors that have been effectively shut down as part of the UK lockdown and they are more likely to have lost their jobs since then.
The effects of coronavirus on household finances and financial distress -
The effect of the COVID-19 crisis on the economy has been huge. National income fell by 20% in April, to a level last seen in the early 2000s. But the impact of this vast aggregate shock on the finances of different households will vary widely. In this report, we use a novel source of real-time data on households’ finances from Money Dashboard, a budgeting app, to explore the impacts of the crisis so far on earnings, incomes and financial distress, and how they are evolving.
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2020 -
This report examines how living standards – most commonly measured by households’ incomes – were changing in the UK up to approximately the eve of the current COVID-19 crisis, using the latest official household income data covering years up to 2018–19. We particularly focus on how this differed for different groups, and what this meant for poverty and inequality.
Covid-19: the impacts of the pandemic on inequality -
Much of the debate about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, our responses to it, and the longer-term legacy that it will leave has quickly become a discussion about various forms of inequality. The purpose of this report is to bring together what has emerged so far about the impacts of the crisis on inequalities across several key domains of life and, in doing so, to make a few overarching points.
Getting people back into work -
We are going through the deepest recession in living memory. Even given current lockdown measures there are things government should do now to mitigate its long-term costs. First and foremost, it needs to provide as much forward guidance as it can confidently give. Uncertainty is in itself deeply damaging to business and the economy. Much uncertainty is inevitable. But some things seem relatively clear.
Household spending and coronavirus -
Many households are experiencing falls in their income as a result of the economic and health policy responses to the coronavirus crisis – often sharp falls. What they normally spend their money on will matter for how well they can weather this storm. If a household typically spends much of its budget on essential or inflexible items, it has less scope to adjust to a lower income by reducing spending without incurring relatively severe hardship.
If the cap doesn’t fit? -
On the eve of the economic crisis caused by the public health response to coronavirus, around 76,000 working-age families were subject to the benefit cap. The cap means that most of these families, and some of those who have since lost employment during the crisis won’t benefit at all from the temporary increases in benefits announced by the Chancellor.
Sector shutdowns during the coronavirus crisis: which workers are most exposed? -
The lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has effectively shut down a number of sectors. Restaurants, shops and leisure facilities have been ordered to close, air travel has halted, and public transport has been greatly reduced. Our analysis shows: The lockdown will hit young workers the hardest. Employees aged under 25 were about two and a half times as likely to work in a sector that is now shut down as other employees.
The challenges for labour market policy during the Covid-19 pandemic -
Covid-19 has led to sharp falls in labour demand in many sectors of the economy and to acute labour shortages in other sectors. Much more than in a typical downturn, the current crisis is not simply a general slowdown in economic activity but also a radical, but temporary, shift in the mix of economic activities. The policy response so far has focused on cushioning the blow to families’ finances and allowing workers to return to their original jobs once the crisis subsides.
Living standards, poverty and inequality: summary of the latest data, for 2018–19 -
The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to reduce household incomes as workers lose their jobs, earnings fall, and plummeting share prices and interest rates lead to lower incomes from savings and investments.
Relative Poverty in Great Britain and the United States, 1979-2017
Original Article ‡ We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the ESRC through the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS (grant number ES/M010147/1). This paper also builds on work funded over a number of years by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. We thank three anonymous reviewers and Hilary Hoynes for helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper. All errors are our own.
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