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| By Mike Allen ·Oct 28, 2021 |
| Happy Thursday. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,178 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu. ⚡ Breaking: President Biden today will announce a revised "framework" for social spending that he expects will pass Congress after weeks of whittling, The Washington Post reports. 💰 At 12:30 p.m. ET today, Axios' Hope King and Dan Primack host a virtual event on the future of personal finance. Guests include Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Financial Literacy for All co-founder John Hope Bryant. Register here. |
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| 1 big thing: "Build Back Better" goes global |
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| Photo: Brendan Smialowski /AFP via Getty Images |
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| As President Biden flies to Rome today, the global debate awaiting him at the G20 economic summit has a lot in common with the one he's leaving behind in Washington. - The G20's priorities echo Biden's domestic agenda — economic restructuring amid climate change, with a push for social equity, Axios' Zachary Basu writes.
Why it matters: This is the first time since the start of the pandemic that the U.S. president and other leaders of top world economies will meet in-person. Leaders of China, Russia, Japan and Mexico will be missing. - With Xi and Putin out, the U.S. and Europe will be "energized," "united," and "driving the agenda," Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said this week.
Reality check: Biden has a friendly meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican tomorrow, but then steps into a web of geopolitical tensions. - Biden will meet with French President Macron for the first time since a secret U.S.-U.K. submarine deal with Australia scuppered a multibillion-dollar submarine contract with France.
- As Biden turns his focus to the Indo-Pacific, Russia has resumed its cyberattacks on U.S. companies ... cut off all communications with NATO ... and is threatening to use energy as a political weapon against Europe, which is facing fuel shortages.
Turkey's President Erdogan threatened to expel 10 Western diplomats this weekend ... Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was accused of another assassination plot ... and a Brazilian commission recommended criminal charges against President Bolsonaro for his COVID response. - Biden has avoided meeting with all three.
The bottom line: The road to a green global recovery runs through the G20. Biden will need all his diplomatic skills to produce results. |
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| 2. Hot jobs |
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| Illustration: Eniola Odetunde/Axios |
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| Interest in IT and media jobs is surging, but no one wants to fill sorely needed child-care and home-health roles, Axios' Erica Pandey writes. - Why it matters: Workers hold unprecedented power at the moment, and some industries are struggling way more than others, according to a new report from the jobs site Indeed.
- Labor shortages will continue to hobble the economy.
Interest in civil engineering jobs and IT operations jobs has surged the most since the pre-pandemic era. Postings for both types of jobs are getting 59% more clicks on Indeed now than in February 2020. - People are eager to secure those jobs for their work-from-home flexibility, says Indeed economist AnnElizabeth Konkel.
- IT and civil engineering are also welcoming to career-switchers.
- Employers in those fields will often hire applicants who have taken short-term skill-building courses, even if their educational background is not in tech.
Indeed's report shows interest in loading and stocking jobs at warehouses has cratered 40%. Clicks for food service jobs are down 18%. |
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| 3. Axios interview: Fauci's advice to parents |
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| Anthony Fauci fist-bumps Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) in July. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times via Getty Images |
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| Anthony Fauci tells Axios' Eileen Drage O'Reilly that even though the chances of young children getting seriously ill from COVID are small, parents should immunize them once a vaccine is authorized. - Fauci told us that if his three adult daughters were that age, "I would vaccinate them in a second."
- "[W]hy do you want to take a chance of that with your child, when you can essentially protect the child by an intervention that is proven to be both highly effective and very safe?" Fauci said.
What's happening: An FDA expert panel on Tuesday endorsed an emergency use authorization for a lower dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine for 5 to 11-year-olds. Fauci said he hopes to make the rollout "as convenient as possible for parents" by having the shots available at pharmacies, pediatricians, children's hospitals and community centers. |
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| 4. Reason for hope: COVID cases drop 20% |
 Data: N.Y. Times. Cartogram: Kavya Beheraj/Axios The number of new COVID cases continues to plummet all across the U.S., Axios' Sam Baker and Kavya Beheraj report. - The U.S. is now averaging roughly 70,000 new cases per day, a 20% drop over the past two weeks.
Deaths fell 15% over the same period, to an average of 1,400 per day. - That's still a lot — equivalent to a 9/11 roughly every two days. But that number has been steadily coming down throughout the fall, and likely will continue to drop.
👀 What we're watching: The pace of new infections has fallen over the past two weeks in 45 states. The West is at most risk of a flare-up. - Alaska still has the largest number of cases relative to its population, followed by Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and Idaho.
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| 5. 🎓 Stat du jour: College students set voting record |
| College students voted in record numbers in 2020, the Boston Globe writes from a national college voting study published today by Tufts. - 66% of college students voted for president last year, up 14 points from 2016 — a much greater increase than among voters at large.
Why it matters: This could signal a surge in civic engagement as Gen Z comes of age. |
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| 6. 🗳️ GOP poll watchers dot Virginia |
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| Republican Glenn Youngkin holds a campaign concert in Blacksburg last night with country singer John Rich. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images |
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| Across Virginia, a GOP "election integrity" push has driven an influx of election observers ahead of Tuesday's gubernatorial election, The Washington Post reports. - Usually, poll-watchers — who observe voter check-in, ballot drop boxes and nightly tallies — turn up only on Election Day, and mostly during presidential elections.
- This year, Loudoun County General Registrar Judy Brown says, "we have had poll watchers here every day, all day long."
- She said Republicans often outnumber Democrats 2 to 1.
Democrat Terry McAuliffe campaigns at Bible Way Church in Danville, Va., yesterday. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images |
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| 7. First look: Mike Bloomberg and the next climate summit |
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| John Kerry, President Joe Biden's climate envoy, is on the cover of TIME ahead of the global summit. Interview here. Cover: TIME |
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| As world leaders head for rainy Scotland this weekend for the global climate summit, many capitals already expect disappointing results, writes Axios' Andrew Freedman. - So a gathering later in November — this time in hot and humid Singapore, sponsored by former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg — is already drawing attention as "what's next" for climate commitments.
Axios got the first look at the lineup for his Bloomberg New Economy Forum, which runs Nov. 16-19: - The forum, with a heavy focus on climate change, includes Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, whose company has embarked on an ambitious decarbonization agenda, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO David Solomon.
- A senior Chinese leader is also expected. China's drive to reduce its emissions is a focus of the meeting, said a person familiar with the summit planning.
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| 8. 🎄 1 for the road: Now the store nags you |
| Retailers are nudging us to shop now for the holidays, offering crash courses on supply chains and staff shortages, The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription): - "Best time to order? Right now!" read a banner near the top of the Lands' End home page.
- L.L. Bean's website says: "We want to be real with you: we're facing some unique challenges this year."
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