Laura Delano recognized that she was “excellent at everything, but it didn’t mean anything,” her doctor wrote. She grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, one of the wealthiest communities in the country. Her father is related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and her mother was introduced to society at a débutante ball at the Waldorf-Astoria.
While prisoners have the only confirmed American right to healthcare, the quality of services are at times lacking and unreliable. The dire need for mental health services especially for our prison population poses a grave challenge to finite resources.
With the impending decline of private prisons combined with the little known world of prison healthcare administration, the future health of our most indigent is at stake. We’ve never had a greater need for innovation in the provision of large scale healthcare and mental health.
Calls for the replacement of human labor continue but jobs really just change form. The flexible and creative continue to thrive and survive.
How can you know if you’re about to get replaced by an invading algorithm or an augmented immigrant? “If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated,” Anders Sandberg, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, tells Oppenheimer. “If it can’t, it won’t.” (Rotten luck for people whose job description is “Predict the future.”) Baldwin offers three-part advice: (1) avoid competing with A.I. and R.I.; (2) build skills in things that only humans can do, in person; and (3) “realize that humanity is an edge not a handicap.” What all this means is hard to say, especially if you’ve never before considered being human to be a handicap.
WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday the most substantial changes in a generation to the tough-on-crime prison and sentencing laws that ballooned the federal prison population and created a criminal justice system that many conservatives and liberals view as costly and unfair.
The First Step Act would expand job training and other programming aimed at reducing recidivism rates among federal prisoners. It also expands early-release programs and modifies sentencing laws, including mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, to more equitably punish drug offenders.
New York (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey asked American voters Sunday night to end Donald Trump’s presidency with a “landslide” victory for his opponent in 2020.
“All of us should use every breath we have to make sure the lies stop on January 20, 2021,” Comey told an audience at the 92nd Street Y on New York City’s Upper East Side. He all but begged Democrats to set aside their ideological differences and nominate the person best suited to defeating Trump in an election.
We’ve been using machine learning across Amazon for more than 20 years. With thousands of engineers focused on machine learning across the company, there are very few Amazon retail pages, products, fulfillment technologies, stores which haven’t been improved through the use of machine learning in one way or another. Many AWS customers share this enthusiasm, and our mission has been to take machine learning from something which had previously been only available to the largest, most well-funded technology companies, and put it in the hands of every developer. Thanks to services such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Polly, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Lex, tens of thousands of developers are already on their way to building more intelligent applications through machine learning.
Trade unions are harnessing the same force that caused their decline
“If they stall, we will hit them where it hurts.” Jörg Sprave is a jovial German with a winning smile but he leaves no doubt that he is serious. If Google, YouTube’s owner, does not budge, he will call a strike. Mr Sprave runs “The Slingshot Channel”, dedicated to rubber-powered weapons, which boasts over 2m subscribers. He is also the founder of the YouTubers Union, which counts over 16,000 members. He launched the organisation in March after YouTube stopped showing adverts alongside many of his and others’ clips, following pressure from advertisers. It caused his income to drop from $6,500 to $1,500 a month. The group’s main demand is to stop such “demonetisation”.
Improvements in technology, artificial intelligence, and the managerial and scientific focus on automation and robotics will lead to a transformations in what we build and how we work. Continued increases in labor productivity, wealth, and changes to the definition of work will result. Simultaneously, there will be a widening divide between the earning power of high and low skilled workers and fundamental shifts in the types of tasks that constitute their jobs. Technology will displace existing jobs and lead to great dislocations especially with automation susceptible jobs. This will necessitate a comprehensive review of how we prepare and support individuals for work and result in major changes to how we make decisions, structure safety nets, evolve our educational systems, and redistribute the gains that arise.
Labor Productivity and Real Compensation per Hour
History shows that technology has created large employment and sector shifts, but also creates new jobs.
US Labor force growth will remain low for the foreseeable future
Automation will affect 80% of workers through wage suppression and job loss
Innovation for helping women through the criminal justice system are more important than ever. Interesting measures to help bring mothers and young women back into society after they’ve served their time:
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