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Stress and burnout stoke churn in health care workforce

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 10, 2021
The U.S. has nearly 400,000 fewer workers in nursing and residential-care facilities than it did before the pandemic.
Nurses Klivia Brahja, left, and Kelley Cabrera work in the emergency room at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. Many veteran nurses, Cabrera said, have retired or "they’ve gone to something easier, because this is just unmanageable.”
Courtesy Klivia Brahja
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How a trivia-events company grew through the pandemic

by Andie Corban
Nov 10, 2021
Jess Evans, co-founder of Austin, Texas-based Get It Gals, says her business is on track for its biggest year yet.
Jess Evans at Get It Gals' five-year-anniversary quiz.
Candice Magen Photography/Courtesy Jess Evans
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Unemployment is unavailable to many who lose jobs over vaccination rules

by Blake Farmer
Nov 8, 2021
States are taking different paths on paying benefits to people who lose their jobs for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Employers from hospitals to meatpacking plants are pushing vaccination for their employees' and customers' safety. In some cases, the unjabbed have lost their jobs.
Blake Farmer/WPLN News
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Philadelphia program teaches carpentry skills to help youths build their futures

by Aaron Moselle
Nov 8, 2021
The goal is to put participants on a path to employment.
Greg Palmer leads a carpentry class for teens at the Dixon House community center in South Philadelphia. Rising gun violence has plagued the city.
Kriston Jae Bethel
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How can the U.S. government better distribute funding to tribal governments?

by Savannah Maher
Nov 4, 2021
A Harvard policy paper out this week on the government's pandemic relief effort calls on the Treasury Department to create a dedicated tribal affairs office.
The U.S. Treasury was widely criticized for how it distributed COVID relief funds to tribal governments.
Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images
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"Champing," or camping in a church, is a new U.K. travel trend

by Stephen Beard
Nov 4, 2021
A British church conservation charity is renting out space among the pews for vacationers to bed down for the night.
St. Mary the Virgin Church, located in Edlesborough, England, is now a place for “champers.”
Courtesy of Joseph Casey
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Airbnb takes a more conciliatory approach to communities

by Matt Levin
Nov 4, 2021
Where once the company fought regulations, now its pre-empting them with its own policies designed to curb bad behavior by renters.
Airbnb announced an extension of its ban on house parties this week.
Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images
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For hotels, leisure travel is roaring back

by Justin Ho
Nov 3, 2021
Pleasure travel has helped the hotel industry emerge from the depths of the pandemic. But business travel has been slower to bounce back.
The Marriott and Hilton hotel chains recently posted improved financial results, largely on a rebound in leisure travel. Health risks are among the issues still restraining business travel.
Justin Heiman via Getty Images
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A new recruitment-focused twist on an old festival in Stratford-upon-Avon

by Elizabeth Hotson
Nov 1, 2021
The English town, struggling with a labor shortage like many other parts of the world, revived an old local tradition to help solve the problem.
The mayor of Stratford-upon-Avon opens the Mop Fair.
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Why addressing economic inequality could help build pandemic resiliency

by Amy Scott and Maria Hollenhorst
Nov 1, 2021
“Our health is all interconnected and inextricable from the conditions in which we live,” says epidemiologist Dr. Sandro Galea.
“Most of “health” is about where we live, where we work, where we play,” says public health expert Dr. Sandro Galea. Above, a doctor puts on a mask before speaking to people without homes in San Francisco in 2020.
Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
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