An emerging economic crisis in the UK has led to builders being forced to down tools amid what is being described as a “perfect storm for construction”. As the latest figures from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy show, material…
Given that agricultural land is expanding at the expense of forests, marine stocks are being decimated by overfishing and coral reefs are getting clogged by plastic, it comes as no real surprise that plant and animal species are getting decimated. The …
Social safety nets obviously vary as widely across the world as development status, but apart from that, different regions also show different preferences for whom they think most deserves to receive support from the government.A new report by the Inte…
According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 28,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States in the past 28 days. As of September 3, 2021, Florida suffered the most losses at 4,900 or 17 percent of deaths.Texas recorded 4,166 deaths over…
Big tech is notorious when it comes to the usage of customer data for advertising and tracking users across the web. The regulatory framework of the GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, in the EU aims to give users more control over their own d…
The torrential rains that tropical storm Ida brought over the Northeast of the United States on Wednesday and Thursday have once again exposed how vulnerable our infrastructure is to extreme weather events that are becoming more frequent due to climate…
A social safety net is synonymous with a failsafe for many, but in the case of the U.S. Social Security system, additional action is needed to ensure it stays that way.The annual OASDI trustees report by the Social Security Administration, covering old…
Hurricane Ida, the fourth and to-date strongest storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, has made its way to New York City, albeit as a much weaker tropical storm. Nevertheless, Ida caused widespread flooding and a state of emergency declaration in…
10 percent of the richest people in the United States own almost 70 percent of the country’s total wealth. As of Q1 of 2021, the top 10 percent held 69.8 percent of total U.S. net worth (which is the value of all assets a person holds minus all their l…
As part of a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit from U.S. app developers against Apple, the Californian tech giant announced a couple of changes to its contentious App Store policies on Thursday. “The terms of the agreement will help make th…
