JG Adult Family Home willfully violated federal overtime, minimum wage regulationsEmployer: JG Adult Family Home LLC 1922 28 St. SE Auburn, WA 98002Investigation findings: A U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation found the owners of two Auburn adult care homes did not pay 22 caregivers overtime rates for hours over 40 in a workweek, a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The employer instead paid a daily rate regardless of how many hours employees worked. Investigators also found the employer denied some employees the required federal minimum wage.Back Wages recovered: $97,980 in overtime and minimum wages $97,980 in liquidated damagesPenalties assessed: …
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Listen on Spotify Apple Music Acast Straight from the European Council summit, we bring you the latest news and analysis on a range of tough issues on the leaders’ agenda. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by POLITICO colleagues Barbara Moens and Aitor Hernández-Morales to discuss how EU leaders agreed on who they want to lead the top EU institutions over the next five years. With Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a special guest at the summit, EU leaders also talked about Ukraine — following the official opening of accession talks between Brussels and Kyiv earlier this week. Finally, we speak…
Students at Stonewall Elementary in Lexington, Kentucky, try to figure out whether text was written by fellow students or generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT in a class exercise on Feb. 6, 2023. (Timothy D. Easley/AP) As some teachers start to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in their work, a majority are uncertain about or see downsides to the general use of AI tools in K-12 education, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in fall 2023. A quarter of public K-12 teachers say using AI tools in K-12 education does more harm than good. About a…
Most think social media has made it easier to manipulate and divide people, but also say it informs and raises awareness (Getty Images) This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on technology use and views of internet and social media in the context of democracy and society. The survey was conducted in 19 advanced economies in North America, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. For non-U.S. data, this report draws on nationally representative surveys of 20,944 adults from Feb. 14 to June 3, 2022. All surveys were conducted over the phone with adults in Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece,…
Obesity affects roughly 42% of U.S. adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And about two-thirds of Americans (65%) say willpower alone usually isn’t enough for most people who are trying to lose weight and keep it off, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Put those two facts together, and it should come as no surprise that a new class of drugs to help people lose weight – including Ozempic, Wegovy and similar medications – has soared in popularity. In the Center survey, about three-quarters of Americans say they have heard or read at…
(SDI Productions via Getty Images) New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced that she will introduce legislation to ban smartphones in schools during her state’s 2025 legislative session. She cited the impact that social media and technology can have on youth, including leaving them “cut off from human connection, social interaction and normal classroom activity.” Hochul’s legislative push comes as K-12 teachers in the United States face challenges around students’ cellphone use, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in fall 2023. One-third of public K-12 teachers say students being distracted by cellphones is a major problem in their…
In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece of an elbow joint jutting from the dirt in a gully. It proved to be the first of 47 bones of a single individual – an early human ancestor whom Johanson nicknamed “Lucy.” Her discovery would overturn what scientists thought they knew about the evolution of our own lineage. Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, an extinct hominin – a group that includes humans and our fossil relatives. Australopithecus afarensis lived from…
As of 25 June, there have been a further 19 cases associated with the recent outbreak of STEC O145 since the last update a week ago, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 275 in the UK. All currently confirmed cases had symptom onset dates before 4 June. Although case reporting rates are declining, we expect to see more cases linked to this outbreak as further samples are referred to us from NHS laboratories and whole genome sequencing is conducted. Confirmed case totals: 182 in England 58 in Scotland 31 in Wales 4 in Northern Ireland (evidence suggests that…
Yaoundé – On 19 and 20 June 2024, IOM provided the Cameroon Humanitarian Organisations Initiative (C.H.O.I) with a workshop to help them gain an in-depth understanding of SPHERE standards and multi-sectoral needs assessment methods. The aim was to increase the effectiveness of humanitarian action while strengthening resilience. With the move towards a localised approach to aid, national civil society organisations (CSOs) are increasingly being asked to play a key role in the distribution of humanitarian assistance. Based on the principles set out in the SPHERE handbook and the Humanitarian Charter, during this workshop IOM improved the skills of national CSOs…
The promised artificial intelligence revolution requires data. Lots and lots of data. OpenAI and Google have begun using YouTube videos to train their text-based AI models. But what does the YouTube archive actually include? Our team of digital media researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst collected and analyzed random samples of YouTube videos to learn more about that archive. We published an 85-page paper about that dataset and set up a website called TubeStats for researchers and journalists who need basic information about YouTube. Now, we’re taking a closer look at some of our more surprising findings to better…