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| By Mike Allen ·Jun 30, 2021 |
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| 1 big thing: Top 4 reasons workers are scarce |
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| Illustration: Megan Robinson/Axios |
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| There are around 10 million unemployed Americans and over 9 million open jobs. But few people are scrambling for those jobs, Axios' Erica Pandey writes. - Only about 10% of job seekers say they're actively and urgently looking for work, according to a new survey from the jobs site Indeed. Around 45% are passively looking for jobs, and another 30% plan to get a job in the near future but aren't looking at all right now.
Workers without college degrees — who also tend to be in lower-wage jobs — give these reasons for delaying the job search: - 25% are afraid of COVID, and are waiting for vaccination rates to climb before getting back to work.
- 20% say they have a financial cushion.
- 20% are staying home due to childcare responsibilities.
- 12% say their unemployment insurance is the reason they're not rushing to get a job.
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| 2. Workers offered bitcoin, signing bonuses |
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| Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios |
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| Fast-food franchises are frantically offering higher salaries and other perks to compete for food service workers, Axios' Kim Hart writes. - A McDonald's in Arlington, Va., touted $500 sign-on bonuses.
- At an Orlando location of the Cuba Libre restaurant chain, candidates were offered $1,000 bonuses, with the option to be paid in bitcoin.
- Wendy's is offering $100 signing bonuses, referral bonuses and same-day pay.
Photo: Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios Chipotle increased average pay to $15 an hour, and is offering opportunities for managers that include potential six-figure salaries. - A sign (above) at a Chipotle in San Francisco's Financial District, spotted by Axios' Kia Kokalitcheva, touted $20.50 an hour.
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| 3. Years of warnings: "The concrete deterioration is accelerating" |
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| A makeshift memorial outside St. Joseph Catholic Church, near the tower. Photo: Gerald Herbert/AP |
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| Less than three months before the Surfside condo collapsed, the president of its board wrote to residents that structural problems identified in a 2018 inspection had "gotten significantly worse," and owners needed to pay at least $15.5 million to get them fixed, AP reports. - The April 9 "Dear Neighbors" letter from Champlain Towers South Condominium president Jean Wodnicki hinted at an ongoing debate over the repairs — and a reluctance by some condo owners to pay.
- "A lot of this work could have been done or planned for in years gone by. But this is where we are now," she wrote. "Indeed the observable damage such as in the garage has gotten significantly worse."
Lots of residents were complaining about the cost. One owner, Nieves Aguero, said the assessment was the talk of the pool a week before the collapse: "Are you going to pay it? Are you going to refinance?" |
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| 4. All the new air conditioning will add to global warming |
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| Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios |
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| Call it a cooling reckoning: Dealing with all the heat caused by global warming is likely to increase greenhouse gas emissions even more, Axios' Ben Geman and Andrew Freedman write. - Why it matters: The world is going to need a lot more air conditioning. A 2017 study found that 30% of the world's population endures climate exceeding a deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year. By 2100, that could be 48%, even if drastic cuts are made in emissions — or 74% if they aren't.
What's next: "Building design, city design, cooling strategies all have to work to ensure the A/C doesn't have to work so hard," Rachel Kyte, dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University, told Axios. |
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| 5. As soon as next week: Biden moves to rein in big business |
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| President Biden orders ice cream in La Crosse, Wis., yesterday. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images |
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| President Biden plans "an executive order directing agencies to strengthen oversight of industries ... dominated by a small number of companies," The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription). - Why it matters: It's "a wide-ranging attempt to rein in big business power, " directing "regulators of industries from airlines to agriculture to rethink their rule-making process to inject more competition."
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| 6. U.S. general warns of Afghanistan civil war |
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| Armed men who oppose the Taliban stand yesterday at a check post in the Ghorband District, Parwan Province, Afghanistan. Photo: Omar Sobhani/Reuters |
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| The top U.S. general in Afghanistan warned yesterday that the country is at serious risk of sliding into a chaotic civil war, citing the "rapid loss" of district centers each day to Taliban fighters taking advantage of the U.S. drawdown, the N.Y. Times reports (subscription). - Why it matters: "The security situation is not good," Gen. Austin Scott Miller told reporters at U.S. and NATO headquarters in Kabul, in what may have been the last public news conference delivered by an American four-star general in Afghanistan.
Miller said that while the U.S. withdrawal is going "very well" from a military standpoint, a multi-factional civil war is "certainly a path that can be visualized if it continues on the trajectory it's on ... That should be a concern for the world." |
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| 7. NYC botches mayor vote count |
| Courtesy N.Y. Post The New York City Board of Elections made the embarrassing admission last night that 135,000 test ballots hadn't been removed from its vote-counting system, and were mixed in with real votes in preliminary results of the city's new ranked-choice voting system. - Why it matters: As Fordham political science professor Christina Greer told the N.Y. Post, voter confidence "is at an all-time low and I'm not sure I want to ask how much lower it can go."
Go deeper: Disarray in NYC vote count. |
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| 8. Tucker vs. NSA |
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| Screenshot: "Tucker Carlson Tonight" |
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| The National Security Agency, which rarely talks about anything, issued an extremely unusual statement last night to rebut Tucker Carlson's explosive claims that the Biden administration is "spying" on him in a conspiracy to take him off the air. - Carlson then responded on his show, calling the statement a "paragraph of lies written purely for the benefit of the intel community's lackeys at CNN and MSNBC" — while insisting that the NSA did not deny it has been reading his emails without his permission.
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| 9. First Teacher |
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| Photo: Annie Leibovitz for Vogue. Dress by Oscar de la Renta. Earrings by Tiffany & Co. |
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| Dr. Jill Biden continues to teach at Northern Virginia Community College, as described in this Vogue cover profile by Jonathan Van Meter: No one thought she could keep teaching. "I heard that all the time during the campaign," she told me. "Like, 'No. You're not going to be able to teach as first lady.' And I said, 'Why not? You make things happen, right?'" But as I traveled with Dr. Biden through much of April, I saw just how much time her day job took up: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the entire retinue of staff, Secret Service, and press held at our hotel until well into the afternoon, when the motorcade finally hit the road for a nearly three-hour drive and a long evening of events in Arizona — because Dr. B was teaching her classes over Zoom. Keep reading. |
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| 10. 🍗 Summer sneak: Crazy fair food |
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| Buffalo Chicken Doughscuits. Photo: Minnesota State Fair |
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| Food offerings at the Minnesota State Fair, back Aug. 26 after a COVID hiatus, include the Buffalo Chicken Doughscuit (above) — a doughnut stuffed with shredded chicken, then drizzled with Buffalo sauce icing and bacon bits, Axios Twin Cities' Nick Halter writes. Also on the menu: - The Spufull Puff by Potato Man & Sweety: Mashed sweet potatoes blended with sweetened cream cheese, wrapped in dough and fried.
- Herbivorous Butcher, the wildly popular meatless butcher in Minneapolis, will make its fair debut with a ChoriPop — meatless Chorizo dipped in corn-dog batter and fried.
- Fluffy's Hand Cut Donuts will serve donuts topped with soft-serve ice cream.
What we're not so sure about: The Blue Raspberry Blitzed, a "traditional hand pie filled with a raspberry, blueberry and apple blend infused with UV Blue Vodka and topped with cotton candy sugar." - Dig in: 27 new menu items for Minnesota State Fair.
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| Why Facebook supports updated internet regulations |
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