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| By Mike Allen ·Feb 08, 2022 |
| Good Tuesday morning. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,191 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu. ⚡ Biden science adviser Eric Lander resigned after Politico revealed he bullied colleagues. Lander apologized for speaking to Office of Science and Technology Policy staff in "a disrespectful or demeaning way." - Why it matters: He's the first Cabinet-level official to resign or be let go from the Biden administration.
📱 At 12:30 p.m. today, please join Axios' Ina Fried and Sara Fischer for a virtual event on internet safety, including what TikTok is up to. Register here. |
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| 1 big thing: Jaw-dropping gender gap for jobs |
 Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chart: Baidi Wang/Axios Stunning stat: Over 1 million men surged into the labor force last month (taking a job or looking for one) — compared to just 39,000 women. - Why it matters: This appears to be about child care. Issues with schools and daycare centers kept women, who are typically primary caregivers to children, out of the workforce throughout the pandemic — and it's still happening, Axios Markets co-author Emily Peck writes.
That reality holds back the economic recovery, keeping women on the sidelines at a time when companies are desperate to hire. - Women with young children at home, who might have considered going back to work, likely couldn't because of unstable school and child-care schedules.
- "We don't have the data that says, 'it was because of child care,' but we can hear their voices screaming out behind the numbers," said Emily Martin, vice president for education and workplace justice at the National Women's Law Center, which published a report on this data.
What's next: Women are in a tough spot, as there's still a shortage of child-care workers — and the possibility of school scheduling snafus with future variants. - Child-care providers operate on tight margins and don't pay well, and in a tight labor market they're having a hard time finding workers — fueling the crisis.
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| 2. Press bullied at Olympics |
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| Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios |
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| A Chinese security official yanked a Dutch reporter out of his live shot during the Olympics opening ceremony. - Why it matters: The press environment in China has deteriorated dramatically in the past two years. Foreign journalists have been kicked out. Intimidation and physical violence have become more common, Axios' Sara Fischer and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian report.
The reporter — Sjoerd den Daas, a correspondent for Dutch broadcaster NOS — tweeted that just after going live, he was "forcefully pulled out of the picture without any warning by a plainclothes man wearing a red badge that read, 'Public Safety Volunteer.'" - "He did not identify himself," he wrote, "When asked, they couldn't say what we had done wrong."
Flashback: The atmosphere of intimidation is dramatically different from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Chinese authorities made it easier for journalists all around the world to enter China for months leading up to the Olympics and allowed them to travel freely, in what was seen as a sign of greater opening up to the world. - In 2022, leaders in Beijing seem less interested in garnering approbation from Western democracies and their reporters — and more interested in demonstrating that their rules matter most.
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| 3. Exclusive poll: COVID forever |
 Data: Axios/Ipsos poll. Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Only one in 10 Americans thinks COVID will be eradicated by this time next year, Axios managing editor Margaret Talev writes from the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index. - Why it matters: The new poll shows Americans are coming to terms with living with COVID. But it reveals zero consensus on how.
🗳️ Look at these party splits (1,049 polled; margin of error: ±3.3 points): - 21% of overall respondents (43% of Republicans but just 3% of Democrats) said "open up and get back to life as usual with no coronavirus mandates or requirements."
- 23% overall (14% of Republicans and 34% of Democrats) said "mostly keep coronavirus precautions and requirements."
- 51% of respondents support businesses requiring proof of vaccination to enter — 25% of Republicans, but 72% of Democrats.
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| A message from Google |
| Google and Khan Academy partner to teach online safety |
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| In addition to Google's $10 billion commitment to advancing cybersecurity, Google is contributing $5 million to Khan Academy to develop free online safety lessons that will help teach people how to protect themselves on the internet. Learn more. |
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| 4. 📷 Pic du jour |
| Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Speaker Pelosi joined a bicameral, bipartisan group of lawmakers last night for a moment of silence on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol for the 900,000+ Americans who have died from COVID. 🔔 The Washington National Cathedral tolled its funeral bell, the bourdon, 900 times. The ritual lasted 1 hour, 25 minutes. (YouTube) |
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| 5. First look: Biden to sell BBB in swing district |
| Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) greets supporters in Orange, Va., in 2020. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images President Biden will take his Build Back Better roadshow to the swing district of Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) on Thursday, Axios' Hans Nichols has learned. - Biden will highlight his proposal to reduce prescription-drug prices.
Why it matters: Spanberger was one of the most pointed critics of Biden's sweeping social agenda after Democrats were thumped in statewide elections in November. Democrats in swing states and vulnerable districts have been distancing themselves from Biden on social media as his poll numbers have hit their lowest point, Axios has reported. - The president's trip to Virginia will be his second jaunt out of Washington to tout his nearly $2 trillion plan since he said during a news conference last month he had to go out and sell his proposals more aggressively.
👀 What we're watching: On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the Consumer Price Index for January. It's expected to come in at 7.3% — the highest reading since 1982. - Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has cited surging inflation as one of the main reasons he declared the negotiations over Biden's spending bill dead back in December.
Share this story. ⚖️ Go deeper: How the White House is framing the Supreme Court selection. |
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| 6. Spanish-language misinformation mess |
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| Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios |
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| Spanish-language misinformation on social media platforms is flourishing, even as tech companies add more moderators, adopt stricter content rules, add context labels and block offending accounts, Axios' Ashley Gold and Russell Contreras write. - Why it matters: Latinos are increasingly turning to social media for news during the pandemic — including important elections where Spanish-language misinformation sometimes sits unchallenged, posing threats to health and democracies.
What's happening: Where platforms are quick to remove misinformation posts in English, some identical posts in Spanish remain online. Get more stories like this from our twice-weekly Axios Latino, a collaboration with Noticias Telemundo. |
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| 7. Coach fliers get new love |
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| Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios |
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| The coach passenger is king — perhaps for the first time ever — as airlines scramble for a larger share of the booming leisure travel market, Joann Muller writes in Axios What's Next. - What's happening: As the pandemic wanes, major carriers that traditionally make most of their money off premium business travel have shifted their attention to wooing vacationers.
Driving the news: Spirit Airlines and Frontier Group are merging in a $2.9 billion deal that will create the fifth-largest U.S. airline. - The airlines said the deal would save $1 billion a year for consumers through lower prices and create "America's most competitive ultra-low fare airline."
- The combination of the country's two largest budget carriers will help them compete against American, Delta, United and Southwest, which together control 80% of the U.S. air travel market.
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| 8. 📺 Charted: Tuning out Olympics |
 Data: Nielsen. Chart: Will Chase/Axios U.S. viewership of the Winter Olympics, like last year's Summer Games in Tokyo, is being hurt by the ban on fans, who add to the excitement of watching live, Axios Media Trends expert Sara Fischer writes. |
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| A message from Google |
| Google reduces account hijackings by up to 50% |
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| To help protect user data, Google has proactively auto-enrolled more than 150 million Google Accounts in two-step verification. People enrolled in Google's two-step verification were less than half as likely to suffer unauthorized account access than before enrollment. Learn more. |
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