New York City’s economy survived the pandemic shutdown in 2020 because an unprecedented increase in jobless benefits buoyed households. The city avoided a fiscal crisis because a surge in capital gains for the richest taxpayers bolstered income tax collections.But the income and tax liability data released by the city Independent Budget Office (IBO) Tuesday also revealed some darker news: the number of New Yorkers making between $150,000 and $750,000 declined by almost 6% between 2019 and 2020 — and the number of those making more than $750,000 dropped by almost 10%. The loss of high-income taxpayers coincided with the worst of…
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“This calls for more connectivity; and less digital fragmentation. More bridges across digital divides; and fewer barriers. Greater autonomy for ordinary people; less abuse and disinformation”, Secretary-General António Guterres underscored during a session devoted to the theme of Digital Transformation. Threat of destruction From the suppression of free speech to malicious interference across borders, and the online targeting of women, he spelled out that “without guidance and guardrails”, digital technology has “a huge potential for harm”. To counter this, he proposed that during the UN Summit of the Future, in September 2024, governments should endorse a Global Digital Compact for…
An estimated 24,000 people have arrived at the camp complex since the end of September, some of the more than 80,000 taken in there during the past two years, according to UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov. He told journalists in Geneva that despite a recent drop in the pace of daily arrivals at Dadaab, an arid part of northeast Kenya, “adequate space in the camps …is running out”. This has forced many to construct makeshift shelters along the outskirts of the camps, “where clean water and sanitation facilities are either grossly insufficient or non-existent”. Deadly cholera fears Even more alarming is…
MADISON, Wis. — The Maryland men’s basketball team got off to a soaring start under Coach Kevin Willard. The Terrapins cruised past some quality opponents, then deftly navigated their first tight contest to defeat a ranked foe in their Big Ten opener. But Maryland had not yet experienced a sizable deficit like the one it faced in its first conference road test at Wisconsin.After a lethargic start against the physical Badgers, Willard’s team rallied with force Tuesday night at Kohl Center. But when his No. 13 Terps needed to seize control in the second half, they succumbed to sloppy play…
When a country song makes you tap your toe, that’s your body sending your brain a hint that this song is only pretty good. Toe tapping isn’t dancing the same way that chewing gum isn’t eating. It’s a reflexive expression of the mildest satisfaction, and at best, a confirmation of the world beneath your feet while your mind floats away.Kelsey Waldon doesn’t write toe-tapping country songs. If you need proof, buy a concert ticket and get there early enough to stake out some turf up front. You’ll see the 34-year-old Kentucky native doing a different kind of footwork onstage while…
ISLAMABAD — Afghan girls will be allowed to take their high school graduation exams this week, an official and documents from the Taliban government indicated Tuesday — even though they have been banned from classrooms since the former insurgents took over the country last year.According to two documents from the Taliban ministry of education, obtained by The Associated Press, the decision applies to 31 out of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces where the winter school break starts in late December.Ehsanullah Kitab, head of the Kabul education department, said the exams would take place on Wednesday. He provided no other details and it…
Boeing has appointed Dr. Brendan Nelson AO as President of Boeing International (BI). The former Australian diplomat and government minister will lead the company’s international strategy and corporate operations when he succeeds Sir Michael Arthur who will retire from Boeing in early 2023 after five decades of service in the public and private sectors, including the past four years at the helm of Boeing International. Brendan, the second non-U.S. citizen to lead the organization, will join the company’s executive council and report to Dave Calhoun, Boeing President and CEO. An Australian citizen, Brendan has been president of Boeing Australia, New…
The H201 SHIFT shower head is an aromatherapy solution for enhancing a bathroom environment and making everyday relaxation a part of one’s regular routine. The shower head works by being installed into a bathroom where it will go to work with a filter and scent capsules to invigorate the environment every time the shower is turned on. The shower head can be purchased as part of The Starter Kit, which comes with at least three-months worth of scent capsules and filtering to help a person get started quickly.The H201 SHIFT shower head works with the built-in filter to remove chlorine,…
This is an edited extract from Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani. Two of my grandparents were Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to Australia as displaced people, refugees or stateless – in the words they chose to use in their landing documents and naturalisation applications. I thus find myself drawn to thinking about Behrouz Boochani’s project of writing the histories of Manus Prison as being part of the same project of history-writing as the writing about the ghettos, camps and bureaucracies of violence that made up the Holocaust. This is not to say that the two “events”…
As GOP lawmakers double down on their vow to hold the economy hostage to force cuts to popular federal programs such as Medicare and Social Security, progressives are reiterating their call for Democrats to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and take away Republicans’ leverage before they assume control of the House next month.”If the debt ceiling is not raised, our economy will come to a crashing halt.””If the debt ceiling is not raised, our economy will come to a crashing halt,” Social Security Works tweeted Tuesday. “Republicans are set on using your earned Social Security benefits as a bargaining chip.…