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The expanded BRICS bloc is exploring alternative payment systems and closer links between central-bank digital currencies. Supporters argue this could reduce dependence on the dollar, while critics point to political divisions, incompatible financial systems and the dollar's entrenched global role. BRICS itself is trending strongly in India today.
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Around 25,000 children lived or attended school near the World Trade Center during the attacks, yet most early health research focused on adult first responders. A major new study is now being established to investigate the long-term effects of childhood exposure to the dust and debris. The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is also trending globally today.
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A concise case for Taylor Swift as her generation’s defining artist, combining commercial dominance, critical recognition, cultural influence, unprecedented records, and praise from the artists who defined previous generations.
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It feels like AI content has hit a wall—there is now near-instant backlash against anything AI-generated, almost always centered on its hidden environmental costs. As public sentiment turns against the massive energy and water requirements of data centers, are we reaching a tipping point for the AI boom?
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Assesses empirical evidence on climate impacts on price indices in European countries.
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The UK’s adult social-care sector is facing a persistent workforce shortage, with tens of thousands of care positions remaining vacant across care homes, home-care services and other providers. Migrant workers have become an important part of this workforce, particularly following the expansion of the Health and Care Worker visa, which enabled overseas recruitment into eligible care roles. The debate has intensified following proposals to extend the standard pathway to permanent settlement (indefinite leave to remain) from five years to as much as 15 years for some migrants, including lower-paid workers. This represents a potential additional 10 years before eligible workers can obtain permanent status. Critics argue that the longer settlement period could make the UK less attractive to migrant care workers, encouraging existing workers to leave and discouraging potential recruits from coming to the country. The concern is that this could increase the number of unfilled social-care positions over the following five to ten years, worsening staffing pressures across the UK’s adult social-care sector. Supporters of the policy argue that stricter settlement requirements could reduce the UK’s dependence on migrant labour and encourage employers to recruit and retain domestic workers. The central question is therefore whether extending the settlement pathway will strengthen immigration control or further deepen the social-care workforce shortage.
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Humans working alongside AI is not necessarily the future of work. In many cases, AI will work alongside humans first, and then take over some of the tasks humans currently perform. AI doesn't necessarily need to eliminate your entire job to reduce the amount of human labor required. If your job consists of 20 tasks and AI can reliably perform 12 of them, your employer may still need you, but potentially needs fewer people, fewer hours, or different skills.
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Minimum wage increases are intended to raise the earnings of low-paid workers, but the result of increasing the minimum wage is not always what is intended in sense of the effect on employment. The claim here is that increasing a legally mandated minimum wage causes affected employers to reduce employment, hours, or hiring among low-wage workers. This depends on various factors such as the size of the wage increase, the workers, the industry(ies) affected, and the economic conditions in which the policy is introduced.
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