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/0 Comments/in COVID Economy, Economic Opportunity, Featured, Press Releases: COVID, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity, rCOVID /by Editorial StaffSafely bringing employees back into workplaces presents a significant challenge for employers located in office buildings, particularly when it comes to elevator operations and building entry and exit. To address the challenge, managers must develop plans to control the flow of workers, according to a new study published by Pioneer Institute.
Drone Surveillance Technology – The Sky’s the Limit!
/0 Comments/in News /by Steve PoftakDrones have owned the world by their soft, almost inaudible buzzing. Yet, for all their innocence, drones are powerful tools that can be leveraged with success to serve many and different purposes. Where most existing technologies coined by humans have failed in the past, drones have succeeded and that is precisely what is happening in the 21st century. Drones are everywhere and they are helping the police, entertainment venues, and airports to keep the products they offer safe. Whether it's a live concert, your business, or your home, a drone can come to your aid and ensure that everything goes according to plan without any hiccups. Business Drone Surveillance Drone surveillance is used for many purposes these days. Some focus on […]
Acclaimed Poet & Former NEA Chairman Dana Gioia on Poetry & Arts Education
/0 Comments/in Academic Standards, COVID Education, Featured, Podcast /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard are joined by Dana Gioia, a poet, writer, and the former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, to talk about why the arts are so pivotal to the intellectual and civic development of America’s K-12 schoolchildren.
38.8 percent of the Massachusetts workforce and 28.3 percent of the U.S. workforce have filed unemployment claims over the past ten weeks.
/0 Comments/in Blog, Economic Opportunity, Featured, rCOVID /by Greg Sullivan and Andrew MikulaData released today by the U.S. Department of Labor shows that 38.8 percent of the Massachusetts workforce and 28.3 percent of the U.S. workforce have filed unemployment claims since the COVID-19 unemployment surge began ten weeks ago.
Once anchored by higher education, Hampshire County, MA finds itself out of work after a cancelled semester
/0 Comments/in Blog, COVID Education, Economic Opportunity, Featured, News, rCOVID /by Andrew MikulaThe 38,000 college and university students at the Five College Consortium in Western Massachusetts essentially increase the population of Hampshire County by 25% each fall. With this large student population comes the need for ancillary academic services, dining options, recreation opportunities, shopping options, and nightlife. Thousands of local residents are employed on or near these college campuses as custodians, college store and postal service clerks, retail workers, coaches, health care workers, and special event coordinators. So when COVID-19 moved the nexus of student activity from sprawling campuses to the internet, many of these jobs disappeared overnight. As a result, Amherst, home to three of the consortium’s five colleges, contains two of the three zip codes with the highest modeled […]