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• The two biggest mandatory spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, account for most of the increase in noninterest outlays, whereas discretionary spending is assumed to remain constant as a share of GDP through 2050.
• Close to 3 million people will most likely die of Covid-19 globally by the end of the year if countries do not place a greater focus on wearing masks and tightening restrictions on social distancing.
• Social media sites such as Instagram are one of the most effective ways to target youth, and likely will be a more successful option for delivering CM messaging to them than the more traditional print, radio and TV media.
• Spend on print advertising was predicted to fall by 6% to US $ 69 billion, putting it in fourth place behind television, paid search (19% of global ad spend) and social advertising.
• By 2050, CBO projects, US federal spending for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (the federal health care program for people with limited income and resources) for people age 65 or older would account for about half of all federal noninterest spending, rising from about one-third in 2020.
• Growth in spending for Social Security, the major health care programs, and interest would reshape the spending patterns of the U.S. government by 2050.
• Even with Sub-Saharan Africa having the smallest portion of older people, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs estimates a 10% increase in the number of older people (over 60 years of age) by 2030.
• Outlays for US Social Security are estimated to increase by $52 billion in 2020, primarily as a result of growth in the number of beneficiaries and the average benefit payment.
• The forecast of 2.5 Mt lithium demand in 2029 make us all in the global community responsible for developing sustainable extraction and recycling of lithium and other battery metals in order to contribute to solid state battery technology over the next 5-10 years.
• NHSX is developing a Data Strategy for Health and Social Care in Autumn 2020, which will aim to build on the permissive approach to data sharing for care seen during the coronavirus response, while still protecting the absolute need for patient confidentiality.
• A strong sense of white identification predicts negative attitudes toward immigration and positive attitudes toward Social Security, Medicare, and the policies of the Trump administration.
• To help drive the consistent adoption of social value across central government, a new social value framework developed by the Cabinet Office is due to be released in summer 2020 and will give social value a mandatory minimum weighting of 10% in all government contract awards going forward.
• By 2020, more than 5 billion people will use social media platforms - that' s roughly two-thirds of the world's population.
• Whilst the EU, if the current employment trend were to continue, may be on track to meet its Europe 2020 target of a 75% employment rate, progress in reaching the target of lifting 20 million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion has been slower and has occurred with a lag.
• Mass inoculation with an effective vaccine, not expected until sometime next year, coupled with a return to activities where social distancing is not an option, will be the crucial steps to unlocking steady economic growth.
• Over the next five years, the health care and social assistance industry is forecast to have the largest employment growth of all industries in Western Australia, with the number of disability and aged care workers needing to double to meet demand.
• Society faces a dual challenge of increasing supplies of energy to meet the demand of a growing world population while also addressing the risks of climate change.
• Continued, widespread melting of glaciers during the coming century will lead to floods, water shortages for millions of people, and sea level rise threatening and destroying coastal communities and habitats.
• Tackling the climate emergency will require significant investment at all levels of society, with Dorset Council needing to invest large sums of money over the next 20 years just to become a Carbon Neutral Council.
• Over the past year, regional Federal Reserve banks in San Francisco, Dallas and New York outlined potential financial losses, economic disruption and slowing productivity in their communities.
• In the haste to provide new protected spaces for residents, entire communities have been excluded from public process, leaving little opportunity for discourse over the fact that people of color are criminalized in the name of social distancing.
• UNDP's COVID-19 crisis response is designed to help decision-makers look beyond recovery, towards 2030, making choices and managing complexity and uncertainty in four main areas: governance and agency, social protection, green economy, and digital disruption.

Last updated: 04 October 2020