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World leaders congratulate Biden after he's sworn in as the 46th president of the United States1h ago ( January 20, 2021 at 1:38 PM ) Joe Biden is sworn in as US President as his wife Jill Biden looks on during his inauguration on the West Front of the US Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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World leaders were quick to congratulate Biden and Harris after they were sworn in on Wednesday.
Biden has pledged to "repair our alliances and engage with the world once again."
Former President Donald Trump had a contentious relationship with traditional US allies.
Visit Business Insider's h...Tags: Europe, Politics, UK, News, France, Germany, Angela Merkel, US, America, Trends, Joe Biden, Iran, United States, Nato, Paris, World Health Organization 67 people like this. Like Survey: Joe Biden has the confidence of America’s major European alliesJanuary 19, 2021 at 12:40 PM According to a Pew Research Center survey, a majority have confidence in Biden to do the right thing in world affairs.Tags: America, Joe Biden, Biden, Pew Research Center 37 people like this. Like How to persuade your vaccine-skeptic friends to get the COVID-19 shot, according to a Nobel prize-winner who studies vaccine hesitancyJanuary 19, 2021 at 8:53 AM Dr. Abhijit Banerjee on November 16, 2012 in New Delhi, India. Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2019 along with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard professor Michael Kremer for their research on how to alleviate poverty, which has revolutionized the field of development economics.
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Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has studied what motivates vaccine-hesitant people to change their minds.
He's found that most people don't have "str...Tags: Science, News, India, US, Trends, Public Health, Harvard, National Institutes of Health, Pfizer, Portsmouth, New Delhi, Anthony Fauci, Pew Research Center, Bethesda Maryland, BANERJEE, Esther Duflo 93 people like this. Like Trump is starting his last full day in office hiding from the public and plotting to steal Biden's thunder, as his approval ratings plummet to historic lowsJanuary 19, 2021 at 7:00 AM President Donald Trump.
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President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated on Wednesday, meaning Tuesday is President Donald Trump's last full day in the White House.
Trump has spent the last days of his presidency hidden from public view, and with his approval ratings the lowest they have ever been.
Trump is not attending Biden's inauguration and is instead planning on stealing focus from the event, including by flying out early.
Vice President Mike Pence has tak...Tags: Facebook, Florida, Politics, Congress, Senate, White House, Trends, Joe Biden, Cnn, Analysis, Gop, Washington Dc, House, News UK, Mitch McConnell, Republican Party 51 people like this. Like The Trump administration gave more than $850,000 in PPP loans to prominent anti-vaccine groupsJanuary 18, 2021 at 2:26 PM An anti-vaccination fundraiser.
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Top anti-vaccine advocacy groups received PPP funding from the Trump administration, The Washington Post reported.
American distrust in the safety of COVID-19 vaccinations continues to pose a threat to public health.
K. "Vish" Viswanath, a professor of health communication at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told Insider that anti-vaccine groups are "likely to perpetuate the adverse impacts of the pandemic."
Visit Busi...Tags: Politics, UK, News, Washington Post, US, Trends, Healthcare, The Washington Post, PPP, Pew Research Center, Trump, Misinformation, Joseph Mercola, Small Business Administration, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, NVIC 137 people like this. Like NSSF: De-Platforming of Gun Sites Is a Dark HarbingerJanuary 18, 2021 at 11:32 AM By Joe Bartozzi
Open censorship of dissenting voices by Big Tech doesn't bode well for Americans. IMG iStock-1055867850
U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Throughout history, censorship has occurred whenever government or private groups attempt to impose their political or moral values on others. One would imagine that this could never happen in the freest and prosperous country in the history of the world.
This type of activity clearly seems incongruous with the founding principles – not to mention t...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Guns, Washington Post, Godaddy, United States, Aclu, New York Times, Jeff Bezos, Wall Street Journal, Pew Research Center, Isp, U S Supreme Court, Newsweek 96 people like this. Like Biden To Prioritize Legal Status For Approx. 11 Million ImmigrantsJanuary 16, 2021 at 11:28 PM SAN DIEGO (AP/CBS13) — President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to immediately ask Congress to offer legal status to an estimated 11 million people in the country has surprised advocates given how the issue has long divided Democrats and Republicans, even within their own parties.
According to four people briefed on his plans, Biden will announce legislation on his first day in office to provide a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the United States illegally.
The president-elect camp...Tags: Politics, News, Obama, Congress, Senate, Immigration, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Ap, United States, Ronald Reagan, Sacramento County, San Diego, El Salvador, Republican Party, Biden 8 people like this. Like Coronavirus vaccines are safe for people of color, despite online myths and mistrust of the healthcare systemJanuary 16, 2021 at 8:00 AM Sandra Lindsay receives the COVID-19 vaccine in New Hyde Park, New York.
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People of color, and Black Americans in particular, may be hesitant to get vaccinated in the US due to a history of racist medical experiments or overall mistrust of the healthcare system.
In Latinx communities, language barriers can also force people to receive health information through social media, where myths abound.
But clinical trials overwhelmingly show that coronavirus vaccines...Tags: UK, Science, News, New York City, US, Trends, New York Times, Native Americans, Philadelphia, Npr, Pfizer, Pew Research Center, People Of Color, Cnbc, Black, Princeton University 64 people like this. Like Trump leaves White House with his lowest-ever approval rating after Capitol riot, impeachmentJanuary 15, 2021 at 12:26 PM Nearly two-thirds, 68%, of the respondents in a new poll from the Pew Research Center said Trump should not remain a major national political figure.
[Author: USA TODAY]Tags: Usa, News, White House, Usa Today, Pew Research Center, Trump, Capitol 50 people like this. Like Trump's approval rating hits historic low of 29% after Capitol siege as his favorability with Republicans nosedives, new poll findsJanuary 15, 2021 at 12:43 PM President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Dalton, Georgia, on January 4.
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President Donald Trump's approval rating stands at 29%, a historic low, heading into his last week in office, a new Pew Research Center survey found.
Trump's approval with Republicans has plummeted by 17 percentage points since August, Pew said.
The president was impeached on Wednesday — for the second time — over his role in inciting the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.
Visit Busin...Tags: Politics, News, Congress, White House, US, Trends, House, Pew, Biden, Donald Trump, Pew Research Center, Trump, Capitol, Pew Research, Dalton Georgia, US Capitol 140 people like this. Like Trump's approval rating hits historic low of 29% as favorability with Republicans nosedives after Capitol siege, new poll showsJanuary 15, 2021 at 12:43 PM President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally in Dalton, Georgia, US, on January 4, 2021.
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President Donald Trump's approval rating stands at 29% — a historic low — in his last week in office.
According to a new Pew Research Center survey, Trump's approval with Republicans has plummeted 17 percentage points since August largely due to the US Capitol siege.
The president was impeached on Wednesday for a second time over his role in inciting the violent insurrection a...Tags: Politics, News, Congress, White House, US, Trends, House, Pew, Biden, Donald Trump, Pew Research Center, Trump, Capitol, Pew Research, US Capitol, Jim Acosta 107 people like this. Like Trump's approval rating hits historic low of 29% as favorability with Republicans nosedives after Capitol siege, new poll findsJanuary 15, 2021 at 12:43 PM President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Dalton, Georgia, on January 4.
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President Donald Trump's approval rating stands at 29%, a historic low, heading into his last week in office, a new Pew Research Center survey found.
Trump's approval with Republicans has plummeted by 17 percentage points since August, Pew said.
The president was impeached on Wednesday — for the second time — over his role in inciting the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.
Visit Busin...Tags: Politics, News, Congress, White House, US, Trends, House, Pew, Biden, Donald Trump, Pew Research Center, Trump, Capitol, Pew Research, Dalton Georgia, US Capitol 100 people like this. Like One-Half of Online Harassment Victims Attributed Their Experiences to Political DifferencesJanuary 13, 2021 at 5:40 PM Political differences are a driving force behind online harassment, as a new study from Pew Research Center found that 41% of U.S. adults have personally experienced some form of online harassment, and one-half of that group attributed that behavior to politics. The think tank surveyed 10,093 U.S. adults online from Sept. 8 through 13, 2020,...Tags: Politics, Advertising, Pew Research Center, Social Pro Daily 46 people like this. Like Marketers crank up the vaccine pushJanuary 12, 2021 at 7:51 PM Hi and welcome to this weekly edition of Insider Advertising, where I break down the big stories in media and advertising. I'm Lucia Moses, deputy editor.Remember you can sign up to get this newsletter daily here. This week: Marketers ramp up push to convince vaccine skeptics, all the media deals to watch, and inside Gab.
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Marketers try to convince vaccine skeptics The COVID-19 vacc...Tags: Apple, Media, Instagram, Youtube, Advertising, Disney, Trends, Bloomberg, Cnn, Netflix, Comcast, Nbcuniversal, M&a, Dell, Pfizer, Council 51 people like this. Like Study finds around one-third of Americans regularly get their news from FacebookJanuary 12, 2021 at 11:54 AM Around a third of Americans regularly get their news from Facebook, according to the latest study from Pew Research Center, whose surveys aim to better understand the current media landscape in the U.S. In the updated report, Pew Research found that around half of U.S. adults, or 53%, said they “often” or “sometimes” use social media to get their news. This is spread out across a number of sites, but Facebook is at the top of the list.
The study found that 36% of U.S. adults said they “regularly...Tags: TC, Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Tech, Snapchat, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitch, Pew Research Center, Trump, Twitter Facebook, Pew Research, Facebook In, U S Capitol, YouTube Instagram 127 people like this. Like Apps and web portals are streamlining vaccine rollout, but the digital strategies could leave vulnerable populations behind, experts warnJanuary 9, 2021 at 7:02 AM A healthcare worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine to an elderly Palestinian man at the Clalit Health Services in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Beit Hanina, in the Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, on January 7, 2021.
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Health systems are starting to give Americans aged 65 and older vaccine access, and some are using smartphone apps and online programs to streamline the process.
But some older people without smartphones or computers reportedly had difficul...Tags: Florida, Usa, News, Colorado, US, Haven, Jerusalem, America, Trends, Walmart, Hospitals, Tennessee, Healthcare, Food And Drug Administration, Philadelphia, Older people 60 people like this. Like Every state raising its minimum wage in 2021January 5, 2021 at 10:12 AM A group of BLM demonstrators protest about $15 minimum wage in Lower Manhattan's financial district on July 20, 2020.
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To kick off 2021, 20 states raised their minimum wages.
According to a report from the National Employment Law Project, a record-breaking number of jurisdictions are set to increase their minimum wages this year.
President-elect Joe Biden has previously expressed support for a national $15 minimum wage.
Visit Business Insider's...Tags: Florida, New York, Minnesota, Maryland, Colorado, California, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York City, Trends, Joe Biden, Chicago, Maine 144 people like this. Like Most vaccine skeptics are persuadable and will get the COVID-19 shot, says a Nobel prize-winner who studies vaccine hesitancyDecember 28, 2020 at 9:19 AM Dr. Abhijit Banerjee on November 16, 2012 in New Delhi, India. Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2019 along with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard professor Michael Kremer for their research on how to alleviate poverty, which has revolutionized the field of development economics.
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Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has studied what motivates vaccine-hesitant people to change their minds.
He's found that most people don't have "str...Tags: Science, News, India, US, Trends, Public Health, Harvard, National Institutes of Health, Pfizer, Portsmouth, New Delhi, Anthony Fauci, Pew Research Center, Bethesda Maryland, BANERJEE, Esther Duflo 88 people like this. Like Many Formerly-Skeptical Americans are Now Eager to Get Covid-19 VaccinesDecember 26, 2020 at 4:54 PM The New York Times reports:
Ever since the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine began last spring, upbeat announcements were stalked by ominous polls: No matter how encouraging the news, growing numbers of people said they would refuse to get the shot... But over the past few weeks, as the vaccine went from a hypothetical to a reality, something happened. Fresh surveys show attitudes shifting and a clear majority of Americans now eager to get vaccinated. In polls by Gallup, the Kaiser Family Fo...Tags: Tech, New York Times, Kaiser, Pew Research Center, Gallup, Kaiser Family Foundation, Moderna, Pfizer BioNTech 148 people like this. Like Congress approves $7 billion for aid on internet bills and efforts to close the digital divide, as part of the larger COVID-19 stimulus packageDecember 23, 2020 at 6:11 PM The spending allocates $3 billion for monthly rebates on internet bills.
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Congress on Monday approved $7 billion in aid to help lower-income Americans get internet access.
The bill would allocate rebates of up to $75 a month to help certain low-income Americans pay their internet bills.
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified concerns about the digital divide between Americans with and without high-speed internet access.
Americans are increasingly reliant on the interne...Tags: Post, Politics, Fcc, Congress, Washington Post, Trends, Internet Access, Pew Research Center, Trump, Federal Communications Commission FCC, Tech Insider, Stimulus Package, Business News Desk, Getty Images Congress, Isabella Jibilian 106 people like this. Like Lawmakers are fighting over the ethics of taking a COVID-19 vaccine before healthcare workers and the elderlyDecember 22, 2020 at 6:20 PM US Vice President Mike Pence receives the COVID-19 vaccine on December 18, 2020.
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A handful of both Republican and Democratic members of Congress are objecting to their colleagues receiving the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of more vulnerable populations.
The attending physician of Congress and the Supreme Court, Brian Monahan, has told members of Congress that "there is no reason why you should defer receiving this vaccine."
Public health experts told Insider that...Tags: Politics, Science, News, Minnesota, Supreme Court, Congress, Washington Post, Senate, White House, Massachusetts, US, Trends, Joe Biden, Cnn, Getty Images, Hawaii 109 people like this. Like People in these countries think their government did a good job of dealing with the pandemicDecember 22, 2020 at 3:51 PM How well did your country respond to the pandemic?It's a subjective question, the answers to which are reflected in new research recording the diversity of opinion around the world.Spoiler alert: globally, more people approved of their own country's response than disapproved.A Pew Research Center survey of more than 14,000 adults across 14 advanced economies in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, found 73% thought their own country had done a good job of tackling the coronavirus outbreak....Tags: South Korea, Europe, Japan, UK, Sweden, Australia, France, Government, US, Spain, Public Health, Canada, Netherlands, Innovation, Belgium, Denmark 76 people like this. Like America's miserable, K-shaped ChristmasDecember 22, 2020 at 1:13 PM The holidays aren't looking so happy this year.
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Christmas is going to be miserable for many Americans this year.
While higher-income Americans have seen jobs return and incomes grow, lower-income Americans are either still struggling or doing worse — the so-called "K-shaped recovery."
Relief in the form of a $600 stimulus check is on its way, but months of legislative gridlock mean even that help won't arrive until after the holiday.
Visit Business Insider's hom...Tags: Christmas, America, Trends, Poverty, Economy, Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Treasury, University Of Chicago, Grinch, Santa, Inequality, Anthony Fauci, Pew Research Center, Holiday Spending, University of Notre Dame 133 people like this. Like Data scientists are teaming up with influencers to fight dangerous conspiracy theories about COVID-19 as people shun experts' warningsDecember 22, 2020 at 8:57 AM Shauna Harrison
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Data scientists at Public Good Projects are partnering with a "network of micro-influencers" to spread facts on COVID-19 and vaccines on social media.
Public health officials worry misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines on social media could prevent Americans from getting the shots.
Just 129 accounts are predominantly responsible for misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines on Twitter, according to peer-reviewed PGP data.
Everyday social media use...Tags: Amazon, Facebook, Science, News, Instagram, US, Trends, Social Media, Pgp, Pfizer, Anthony Fauci, Pew Research Center, Cornell University, Influencers, Misinformation, Harrison 92 people like this. Like Influencers are being recruited to fight dangerous conspiracy theories about COVID-19 as people shun experts' warningsDecember 22, 2020 at 9:55 AM Shauna Harrison
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Data scientists at Public Good Projects are partnering with a "network of micro-influencers" to spread facts on COVID-19 and vaccines on social media.
Public health officials worry misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines on social media could prevent Americans from getting the shots.
Just 129 accounts are predominantly responsible for misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines on Twitter, according to peer-reviewed PGP data.
Everyday social media use...Tags: Amazon, Facebook, Science, News, Instagram, US, Trends, Social Media, Pgp, Pfizer, Anthony Fauci, Pew Research Center, Cornell University, Influencers, Misinformation, Harrison 87 people like this. Like How data scientists and influencers are joining forces to fight against dangerous COVID-19 conspiracy theories onlineDecember 22, 2020 at 9:55 AM Shauna Harrison
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Data scientists at Public Good Projects are partnering with a "network of micro-influencers" to spread facts on COVID-19 and vaccines on social media.
Public health officials worry misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines on social media could prevent Americans from getting the shots.
Just 129 accounts are predominantly responsible for misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines on Twitter, according to peer-reviewed PGP data.
Everyday social media use...Tags: Amazon, Facebook, Science, News, Instagram, US, Trends, Social Media, Pgp, Pfizer, Anthony Fauci, Pew Research Center, Cornell University, Influencers, Misinformation, Harrison 53 people like this. Like What a K-shaped recovery means, and how it highlights a nation's economic inequalitiesDecember 17, 2020 at 4:26 PM A K-shaped recovery is characterized by contradictory trends: Certain professions and classes of people thrive, while others continue on a downward path.
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A K-shaped recovery is an unusual scenario where certain industries and individuals pull out of a recession, while others stagnate.
A K-shaped recovery essentially splits an economy in two, with the divisions occurring along class, racial, geographic, or industry lines.
A K-shaped recovery exposes pre-existing...Tags: US, Trends, Recession, Economy, Economic recovery, Federal Reserve, Pew Research Center, Freelance, Justin Sullivan Getty, US Chamber of Commerce, Suzanne Clark, BI Graphics, Investing (Reference, Investing How To, Yuqing Liu, Elizabeth Aldrich 116 people like this. Like Survey Explores How the Pandemic Changed the Ways Americans WorkDecember 17, 2020 at 11:11 AM As the novel coronavirus swept the country this past spring and many workplaces abruptly closed, an era of remote work began for millions of employed Americans that may extend far into the future. According to a new survey by Pew Research Center, most people now working from home had rarely or never done so before the shutdowns. More than half say that, given the choice, they would continue working from home even after the pandemic ends.
Three-quarters of those now working from home say they hav...Tags: Work From Home, Pr, Pew Research Center, Thought Leadership, Greg Beaubien, Coronavirus, COVID-19 116 people like this. Like Instaread offers thousands of best-selling books you can read in just 15 minutesDecember 17, 2020 at 9:00 AM In 1982, 57% of Americans reported reading at least one work of creative literature in the preceding year. That number fell to 54% in 1992, then down to 47% in 2002. And, according to a Pew Research Center survey, over a quarter of Americans said they didn't read a book of any kind in print, electronic or audio form in 2018. — Read the restTags: Post, Shop, Pew Research Center 73 people like this. Like As Americans overall grow more worried about inequality, those making $100,000 and up are surging in consumer confidenceDecember 16, 2020 at 10:17 AM Stuart Malcolm, a doctor with the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, speaks with homeless people about the coronavirus in San Francisco on March 17, 2020.
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Axios reports that almost half of Americans are "very concerned" about rising inequality, citing a survey from research firm CivicScience.
The survey found 78% of Americans are "somewhat" concerned about the rise in inequality, while 48% are "very."
As Axios notes, Morning Consult data found that, while consumer co...Tags: San Francisco, Trends, Wealth, Economy, Billionaires, Income Inequality, Survey, Inequality, Jamie Dimon, Pew Research Center, Wealthy, Josh Edelson, Consumer Confidence, Morning Consult, CivicScience, Stuart Malcolm 110 people like this. Like |