Pandemic

Could a more streamlined, digital approach solve the construction industry’s payment problem? After the pandemic, many industries are still recovering from supply chain issues. The construction industry perhaps knows this more than most. With complex supply networks that rely on prompt delivery and payment to run smoothly, construction has suffered…

LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte: President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Friday boldly declared that the "darkest hours of the pandemic are over" as he vowed government's support to boost the country's domestic tourism industry. Marcos issued the statement as he joined thousands of his fellow Ilocanos in celebrating the annual…

It’s a well-established fact that children’s and teens’ mental health took a hit during the pandemic. But new research suggests that teen girls in particular are suffering in unprecedented ways. A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was published in early February 2023 found that, in 2021,…

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Map of Waquoit Bay showing locations of the BayWatcher Citizen Science and System-Wide Monitoring Programs run by the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (A). The green shading (A) represents the 1951 eelgrass extent adapted from Costa et al. (1992), and the pink shading (A) represents the 2019–2022 eelgrass extent…

Were a space alien to have visited the U.S. in late 2020, it might have gotten a very skewed idea about the employee-employer relationship in the world of corporate America. Companies were sending their white collar workers money to buy desks and chairs for their work-from-home offices, and gift baskets…

The Resilience Education to Advance Community Healing program in Illinois was launched in December 2020 through a partnership between the Center for Childhood Resilience at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago and the Illinois State Board of Education. Its primary goal is to equip schools with resources…

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. When the Covid-19 pandemic reached US shores roughly three years ago this month, it changed everything, including how we handled the medical needs of those who were…

Friday 17 February 2023 5:00 pm Ofgem has announced it will almost double the allowance it grants energy suppliers to recover some of the bad debt costs from the pandemic, a move which will increase consumer bills. The pandemic left many customers in Britain not being able to pay their…

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facepalm: Praveen Seshadri, founder of the "no-code development platform" AppSheet, has left Google at the end of a three-year mandatory retention period after his company was acquired by Mountain View. The reason, Seshadri now explains,…