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• [New] Digital labour platforms have created unprecedented opportunities for workers, businesses and society by triggering innovation on a global scale.
• [New] California's new privacy rules, known as the California Privacy Rights Act, take force in 2023, and will see the regulator share enforcement powers to the local attorneys general.
• [New] In the Global South, a vacuum of economic opportunity has been filled by a microfinance industry that lends at interest rates few can afford; private-sector debt in the Global South has doubled in the last decade - and quintupled since 1970 alone.
• [New] For no other reason than proximity, Australia has taken the threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia more seriously than the United States.
• [New] Republicans have roundly rejected President Joe Biden's $2.2 trillion opening bid for an infrastructure, tax, and jobs plan.
• [New] The aviation industry is working aggressively to reduce carbon emissions, with the ambition to reach net-zero by 2050 with a focus on sustainable aviation fuel as the key near - and long-term technology to achieve decarbonization.
• [New] The hydrogen economy can generate as much as $140bn per year in revenue and create 700,000 US jobs by 2030.
• [New] Zoom fatigue could continue to plague remote workers, especially women and people of color, depending on the choices that companies make to prevent it.
• [New] The United States Government should, whenever possible, procure goods, products, materials, and services from sources that will help American businesses compete in strategic industries and help America's workers thrive.
• [New] If the United States is going to compete successfully against China and other countries trying to get the upper hand in the information domain, it must have a secure GEOINT information supply chain.
• [New] Millions of Americans will be faced with the task of translating their experiences into entirely new jobs and industries.
• [New] Led by UNICEF UK, it aims to help fund almost two billion Covid-19 vaccines for health workers and the most high risk and vulnerable people on our planet.
• [New] People migrate because of poverty and lack of opportunities and India is one of the major labour migration destinations for Nepali workers.
• [New] The work to reduce emissions this decade could create more than 3 million jobs and increase economic output in the U.S. by nearly $500 billion a year by 2030, and $1 trillion by 2050.
• [New] The Biden Administration seeks to boost investments in worker training as part of its American Jobs Plan, and the federal government's premiere legislation guiding workforce development - the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act - is due for reauthorization in 2021.
• [New] American business leaders are warning a corporate tax rate hike proposed by President Joe Biden could make it harder to hire workers and increase their wages.
• [New] Future work by the Berkeley Lab team will expand the library of membranes and screen it for enhanced transport properties for other ions and molecules of interest in clean energy technologies.
• [New] A recent report by University College London researchers argues that early vaccinations in prisons would not only protect the health of an at-risk group, but restore prisoners' access to education, work, and rehabilitation programmes, as well as lower the risk of reoffending.
• [New] V odacom Group, part of Vodafone, will work with Auda-Nepad to build digital infrastructure to manage vaccinations across up to 55 countries, following successful deployments in South Africa - to manage COVID-19 vaccinations - and in Mozambique, Tanzania and Nigeria - to manage infant inoculations.

Last updated: 18 April 2021