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Pelosi praises Senate budget plan as ‘bold, essential investments’ By Reuters

World hunger surged in 2020, with 1 in 10 people on Earth undernourished

CC BY-ND Nearly 10% of everyone on Earth – an estimated 768 million of us – were undernourished in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies, job markets and supply chains and inflated food prices.…

what’s behind China’s recent crackdown on big tech?

Over the past few weeks, the Chinese government’s crackdown on big tech companies has intensified. The giants have all felt the brunt of heightened regulatory scrutiny. At the end of last year, Ant Group (which…

China plans July launch of national emissions trade scheme By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A coal-burning power plant can be seen behind a factory in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, October 31, 2010. REUTERS/David Gray By Muyu Xu and David Stanway BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s long-awaited…

63% of workers who file an EEOC discrimination complaint lose their jobs

CC BY-NC-ND People who experience sex discrimination, race discrimination and other forms of discrimination at work aren’t getting much protection from the laws designed to shield them from it. That’s our main finding after analyzing…

UK financial sector slowly improving on diversity – BoE paper

The number of women in senior positions within UK banks has increased over the last 20 years, but little progress has been made on improving age and nationality diversity. These were the findings of new…

John Glenn’s fan mail shows many girls dreamed of the stars – but sexism in the early space program thwarted their ambitions

Pioneering spacefarer John Herschel Glenn Jr. would have turned 100 on July 18, 2021. When Glenn died in 2016, the famed astronaut was lauded as “the last genuine American hero.” NASA, the U.S. Marine Corps,…