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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Russia’s New Commander in Ukraine Could Change the War</strong> - Why has Vladimir Putin promoted Valery Gerasimov, who helped plan the disastrous initial invasion last year, to lead the fight? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-russias-new-commander-in-ukraine-could-change-the-war">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Eric Adams Started Mentoring a Con Man</strong> - Eric Adams’s friends and allies have puzzled over his relationship with Lamor Whitehead, a fraudster Brooklyn church leader. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/how-eric-adams-started-mentoring-a-con-man">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans’ Rocky Road Ahead</strong> - With members of the House G.O.P. caucus still pulling in all directions, does anyone know where the Party is headed? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/23/kevin-mccarthy-and-the-republicans-rocky-road-ahead">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Origins of Joe Biden’s Document Mess</strong> - At the end of his Vice-Presidency, all official documents should have been transferred to the National Archives. How did some end up elsewhere? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-origins-of-joe-bidens-document-mess">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What to Do When It Rains on the Winter Games</strong> - Governor Kathy Hochul’s ambitious climate plan for New York. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-to-do-when-it-rains-on-the-winter-games">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>How China came to regret its one-child policy</strong> -
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A young girl rides on a man’s shoulders as they walk along a street in Beijing on October 7, 2022. China has announced its first overall population decline in recent years amid an aging society and plunging birthrate. | Mark Schiefelbein/AP
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Why the world’s most populous country (for now) is experiencing population decline.
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More than 60 years ago, something rare happened in China: More people <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/birth-death-china-great-leap-forward-famine">died than were born</a>.
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That estimated one-year drop in population was due to the Great Famine, perhaps the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/">worst human-made catastrophe in history</a>, resulting in the deaths of as <a href="https://www.npr.org/2012/11/10/164732497/a-grim-chronicle-of-chinas-great-famine#:~:text=From%20his%20research%2C%20Yang%20estimates,people%20behave%20in%20inhuman%20ways.">many as 45 million people</a>. Combined with a <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=CN">short but drastic drop in the birthrate</a>, China <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=CN">shrank</a> by roughly 700,000 people between 1960 and 1961. Once Chinese leader Mao abandoned the forced industrialization policies that led to the Great Famine, however, China’s fertility rate quickly rebounded and deaths fell, and today <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=CN">more than twice as many Chinese</a> are alive as were in 1961.
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But now,<strong> </strong>for the first time since that year, China’s population is again shrinking. And this time, it’s not likely to rebound — not soon, and perhaps not ever. On Tuesday, the Chinese government <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/16/economy/china-population-decline-sixty-years-intl-hnk/index.html">reported</a> that 9.56 million people were born in China last year, while 10.41 million people had died. You don’t have to be a demographer to know what that means — all you need to do is subtract.
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China <a href="https://time.com/6247720/india-most-populous-country-china/">may have already lost</a> its position as the world’s most populous country to a still-surging India. While Covid played some role in those numbers — though how much is hard to say, given Beijing’s <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-05/china-defends-covid-transparency-after-who-s-call-for-more-data">lack of transparency</a> around the full toll of the pandemic — this isn’t like the early 1960s. China’s population drop isn’t the result of a single, acute crisis, but years of policy decisions and cultural and economic shifts that have led this nation of 1.4 billion people to where it is today: facing an aging and shrinking population for the foreseeable future.
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This doesn’t mean that China as a country or as a world power is locked into irreversible decline. What’s happening in China is happening at varying speeds in most countries, as the world — with the exception of still-young regions like sub-Saharan Africa — completes the transition from high fertility to low, with <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/07/1122272">two-thirds of the planet</a> living in nations that do not have enough children to replace their population through reproduction alone.
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Many of these demographic forces are positive, the result of economic growth that has given people, especially women, the freedom to live the life they want, including one with fewer or even no children. But it does mean — as Wang Feng, a sociologist at the University of California Irvine who specializes in Chinese demographics, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/business/china-birth-rate.html">told</a> the New York Times — “in the long run, we are going to see a China the world has never seen.”
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As much as China’s aging and eventual shrinking was a demographic inevitability as it became richer and more modern, the particular speed at which that transition is occurring, and the particular challenges that pace will present, are Beijing’s own doing.
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Demographic regrets
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23436211/overpopulation-population-8-billion-people"></a> In 2015, the Chinese government did something it almost never does: It admitted it made a mistake, at least implicitly.
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The ruling Communist Party <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/world/asia/china-end-one-child-policy.html"><strong>announced</strong></a> that it was ending its historic and coercive one-child policy, allowing all married couples to have up to two children.
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The one-child policy had helped lead to the mother of all demographic dividends, the term for the economist boost created when a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/business/china-birth-rate.html">country’s birth and death rates both decline</a>. Between 1980 and 2015, China’s working-age population <a href="https://www.asiapacific.ca/publication/chinas-demographics-and-growth-potential-age-machine#:~:text=As%20background%2C%20between%201980%20and,demographic%20boost%20to%20aggregate%20growth."><strong>grew from 594 million to a little over 1 billion</strong></a>. China’s dependency ratio — the total young and elderly population relative to the working-age population — fell from over 68 percent in 1980 to less than 38 percent in 2015,<strong> </strong>which meant more workers for every non-working person.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/xJzDp2sfa7rq5567ZSuKMuuccEQ=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24367490/GettyImages_515586532a.jpg"/> <cite>Bettmann Archive</cite>
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Giant billboards erected throughout China — like this one seen in Beijing in 1983 — encouraged Chinese couples to have only one child in the modernization drive to limit China’s population to 1.2 billion people by the year 2000.
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Having more young workers who had fewer young or old dependents to care for was the <a href="https://china.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/china_dd_study_abstract-en.pdf"><strong>fuel in China’s economic rocket engine</strong></a>. But no fuel burns forever, and over the past decade, <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/250612/number-of-retirees-covered-by-pension-insurance-in-urban-regions-in-china/"><strong>hundreds of millions</strong></a> of Chinese <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/05/china-change-retirement-age/"><strong>have hit retirement age</strong></a>, with a plummeting number of young people to replace them. So the <a href="https://qz.com/2015205/chinas-propaganda-journey-from-one-child-to-three-child-policy#:~:text=China's%20propaganda%20journey%20from%20%E2%80%9Conly,to%20the%20three%2Dchild%20policy&text=%E2%80%9COne%20is%20too%20few%2C%20while%20two%20are%20just%20right.%E2%80%9D&text=The%20Chinese%20government%20has%20had%20a%20long%20history%20of%20controlling%20women's%20wombs."><strong>slogans went</strong></a> from “Having only one child is good” to “One is too few, while two are just right.”
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How did the Chinese people react? Not by having more children. By 2021, China’s total fertility rate (that is, the number of expected births per woman over the course of their reproductive lifetime) <a href="https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/1003452/china-s-population-falls-for-first-time-since-1960s-1003452.html"><strong>had fallen to just 1.15</strong></a>, nearly a full child below the replacement rate of 2.1. (That’s two to replace each parent, plus a slight extra to make up for children who might die before they reach adulthood — demographics is <a href="https://www.wri.org/research/achieving-replacement-level-fertility">a dismal science</a>.) For the people of China, if not the government, it seems two was <em>not</em> just right.
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Total births in China have now fallen for six straight years, and the United Nations’ <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/12/05/key-facts-about-chinas-declining-population/#:~:text=The%20UN%20forecasts%20that%20China's,of%2Dthe%2Droad%20projection.">middle-of-the-road projections find</a> that by the end of the century, the country’s total population will have fallen below 800 million people, a level it hasn’t been <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=CN">since the late 1960s</a>. Unlike then, when the median Chinese was in <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-productivity-more-important-than-its-ageing-population-kemp-2021-05-12/">their highly productive early 20s</a>, that smaller China will be far older.
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That’s not, on its face, a bad thing — population aging is a result not just of fewer babies, but of people <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN?locations=CN">surviving infancy and childhood at higher rates</a> and living longer lives. (<a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=CN">Life expectancy in China has risen</a> from a shocking <em>33 year</em>s in 1960 to 78 today — higher, in fact, than <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2022/08/31/u-s-life-expectancy-drops-sharply-the-second-consecutive-decline/">the far richer US</a>.) But with fewer young workers and more elderly dependents, it will be far more difficult to keep China’s economic engine humming. Chinese economic growth in the last three months of the year <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/business/china-gdp-fourth-quarter-2022.html">fell to just 2.9 percent</a>, its lowest record level since Mao’s death in 1976. That was largely a result of the double whammy of months of Covid lockdowns followed by widespread outbreaks when those restrictions were suddenly lifted, but it also presages a broader and longer-term slowdown.
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Why China’s aging challenge is so grave
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Just about every developed country, the US very much included, will need to grapple with the effects of an aging population, but China faces particular challenges.
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For all its power and aggregate wealth — it is by <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-11-08/what-s-happening-in-the-world-economy-which-economy-is-the-biggest">most accounts the world’s second-largest economy</a> — on a per capita basis, it’s still a <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=CN">middle-income country at best</a>. To reach anything like a per capita parity with a country like the UK, let alone the US, would require years more of high-powered economic growth that will be increasingly difficult to pull off in an aging nation. In the end, China could <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/china-could-be-the-first-country-to-get-old-before-it-gets-rich-and-the-implications-are-profound-20210517-p57sj6.html">get old before it gets rich</a>.
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And if China can’t grow faster, the elderly will bear the brunt of the cost. A 2013 study estimated that nearly a quarter of China’s seniors <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2013/05/31/news/economy/china-elderly/">live below the poverty line</a>, and the country — like many others in East Asia, including richer nations like Japan and South Korea — has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/world/asia/japan-workers-retirement.html">little in the way of old-age support</a>. That was less of a problem when older adults could count on being taken care of by their children, but decades of the one-child policy has left an inverted pyramid <a href="https://time.com/5523805/china-aging-population-working-age/">known as “4-2-1,”</a> with four grandparents and two parents depending on one child.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/zatr65CjBP1P8l81fXLvafApcek=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24367570/GettyImages_1246301228a.jpg"/> <cite>Jiang Wenyao/Xinhua via Getty Images</cite>
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A girl high-fives her grandfather, who came to pick her up at Kunming Changshui International Airport in southwest China’s Yunnan Province on January 15, as families travel to be with their loved ones amid the Spring Festival travel rush.
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As more and more young Chinese choose to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/world/asia/china-vasectomies.html">go without children altogether</a> — pursuing the “double income, no kids” lifestyle — more and more elderly Chinese will have no familial support whatsoever, with one survey <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8906474/">projecting</a> 79 million childless older adults in China by 2050. And those trends will reinforce each other — younger Chinese <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/31/chinese-couples-react-to-three-child-policy">are already citing</a> the burden of caring for elderly parents as one reason to have fewer or no children.
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It’s worth repeating that this state of affairs was, for the most part, inevitable. The fertility transition — the drastic drop in fertility as countries become richer — is as close to an iron law as demography has. There is no foreseeable situation where China could have developed as it has if its <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=CN">mid-1960s fertility rates</a> of six to seven children per woman had continued, and much of that drop was due to improvements in infant mortality that gave parents confidence their children would live to adulthood.
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But while the ultimate destination of a demographic transition may be largely set, how fast you get there matters a lot — and years of the one-child policy, well past the point at which it made economic or demographic sense, have hurt China’s ability to manage that transition.
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More out of less
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Beyond ending the one-child policy, the Chinese government has begun offering financial inducements to couples to have more children, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/have-four-or-more-babies-in-hungary-and-youll-pay-no-income-tax-for-life.html">following in the footsteps</a> of other countries that have faced demographic deficits.
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Shanghai <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/17/china-population-shrinking-decline-crisis/">will give</a> mothers 60 days of additional parental leave, while Shenzhen has joined other Chinese cities in giving subsidies — $1,476 in its case — to couples who have a third child. But don’t expect these moves<strong> </strong>to make a major difference in birth rates. While such financial incentives might prompt couples to have a child earlier than they had planned, there’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/baby-bonuses-fit-the-nationalist-agenda-but-do-they-work">little evidence</a> the programs can convince a childless couple to have a kid, or lastingly increase birthrates.
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Instead, China will need to focus on increasing worker productivity and the benefits of automation, while improving its social safety net, in order to manage its demographic transition as smoothly as possible. It won’t be easy — while it’s advancing rapidly in AI and its manufacturing know-how is top-notch, one of China’s biggest advantages is still its large pool of young workers. That pool is drying up, though, while the country lacks the resources of already old neighbors like Japan that could help support its growing elderly population.
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But a worse outcome might be if China’s authoritarian government <a href="https://twitter.com/profsciubba/status/1615343806454317057?s=20&t=CbV0hlhP9CwwOKvBIqgAzQ">tries to compel</a> its citizens to have more children with the same heavy hand it once used to prevent them from doing just that. Already, <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2021/07/15/how-nationalism-is-making-life-harder-for-gay-people-in-china">growing discrimination</a> against China’s LGBTQ citizens is being framed as a response to the country’s <a href="https://twitter.com/profsciubba/status/1615343806454317057?s=20&t=CbV0hlhP9CwwOKvBIqgAzQ">supposed demographic crisis</a>.
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A better future would be one where Beijing does everything it can to support the demographic choices its citizens want to make — and, in doing so, provides a more solid foundation for those Chinese who actively want to have more children. That will take plenty of work. The rising costs of having a family, the Darwinian competition for educational resources and jobs, and<strong> </strong>the lingering effects of years of harsh Covid crackdowns have left China’s young people in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/16/china-university-students-crawling-groups/">state of existential crisis</a>. As one young Shanghai protester <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/17/china-population-shrinking-decline-crisis/">told</a> coronavirus workers in a video that went viral last year, “we are the last generation.” It’s up to the Chinese government to ensure that’s not the case.
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After years of population loss, people are coming back to the Bay Area. | Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
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There’s a big sign that San Francisco may be making a comeback.
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Unsurprisingly, people are still moving to Austin, Texas. More surprisingly, people are also moving to San Francisco.
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Over the last 12 months, San Francisco has seen the second-biggest worker population gain of any area in the United States, according to LinkedIn. The January data, which measures when people update their locations in their profiles, showed that for every 100,000 LinkedIn users, <a href="https://economicgraph.linkedin.com/en-us/resources/linkedin-workforce-report-january-2023">83 moved to San Francisco in the last 12 months</a>. The workers largely <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/blog/linkedin-workforce-report-january-2023-san-francisco-ca">came from</a> Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Washington DC.
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Where people are moving to — and leaving — has huge repercussions for the financial success of those cities and what industries can thrive there. Remote work bore the promise that high-paying jobs could spread from superstar coastal cities like New York and San Francisco to more affordable and economically struggling Heartland areas. To some extent, <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/superstars-rising-stars-and-the-rest-pandemic-trends-and-shifts-in-the-geography-of-tech/">that’s happened</a>, but the new data from LinkedIn shows the pull of major cities could still be strong, even ones hard-hit by the pandemic.
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The data represents a significant shift in population trends for San Francisco, which hadn’t seen notable net gains in LinkedIn’s data <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/linkedin-and-wti-data-reveal-persistent-patterns-and-surprising-trends">since 2017</a>. The San Francisco metropolitan area had some of the biggest population declines from 2020 to 2021, losing more than 125,000 residents, <a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/population-estimates-counties-decrease.html">according to the latest available Census data</a>.
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One of the reasons for the decline was a lack of affordable housing, which meant that even tech workers with six-figure salaries <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/3/19/18256378/tech-worker-afford-buy-homes-san-francisco-facebook-google-uber-lyft-housing-crisis-programmers">couldn’t afford to live there</a>. When the pandemic hit, the Bay Area’s high concentration of people working in remote-friendly tech jobs made it so that many could leave to seek cheaper and greener pastures. Other reasons to leave maybe include<strong> </strong>high rates of <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Maps-show-the-detailed-S-F-areas-where-17655467.php">homelessness</a> and <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/income-inequality-San-Francisco-17462495.php">income inequality</a> the area is facing,<strong> </strong>although it’s also likely that reports of an <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/">urban hellscape</a> in San Francisco might have been overstated.
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Indeed, more people are now coming to San Francisco than leaving. By the end of last year, nearly two people were coming to the metropolitan area for every one that left (LinkedIn wasn’t able to provide the net change in area members since the start of the pandemic). The area was still bested by Austin, where prices are still relatively cheaper and where there’s no income tax, but that’s been the case for years now.
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Why are people moving to San Francisco? In some sense, it’s a matter of popular cities continuing to be popular. That means people still find value and jobs there. The Bay Area is culturally rich, with people — and culture and food — from around the world. While tech companies have been cutting back on hiring lately, the area is still the home base to their giant and lucrative businesses, meaning there’s still plenty of opportunity for workers.
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There’s reason to believe that people aren’t just moving back to San Francisco because they want to. The move back also represents a solidification of remote work policies, in which many companies have come down on the side of hybrid work, where people are still expected in the office some of the time. In other words, people who may have wanted to move elsewhere permanently have been forced back to the Bay Area, though perhaps in different locations than they had been.
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The decision to return to the Bay Area could also come from employees who are hoping to put in face time with their bosses ahead of a potential recession. Studies have shown that bosses view people who work in the offices more favorably and are more likely to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220713-is-it-up-to-employees-to-fix-the-remote-work-promotion-gap">consider them for promotion</a>.
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Even still, it only looks like people are going into the office some of the time. Offices in San Francisco and nearby areas have some of the lowest office occupancy rates in the country, according to data from <a href="https://www.kastle.com/safety-wellness/getting-america-back-to-work/">Kastle</a>, which provides building-access swipe cards to companies across the country and thus has visibility into when people go to the office. During the week of December 29 to January 4, office occupancy was about 20 percent of pre-pandemic levels there, while the national average was 33 percent.
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Rather than leave cities, many people have moved to more suburban areas, where home rental prices are more affordable. They might still have to commute to the office, but a longer commute doesn’t seem as bad if they only have to do it a few days a week. On average, office workers are expected to continue working from home an average of 2.3 days per week, according to a <a href="https://wfhresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WFHResearch_updates_January2023.pdf">December survey</a> of employer plans post-pandemic by WFH Research.
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The LinkedIn data, of course, only includes people who update their profiles, so it’s limited in its scope to professionals who stay up-to-date on their LinkedIn profiles. A reversal in population decline hasn’t yet shown up in other data sources, but lagging data from the US Postal Service does show a lot fewer people are leaving the San Francisco Bay Area than had been earlier in the pandemic. The number of people leaving San Francisco based on the number of change of address forms filed in the city declined to 12,000 last year, down from about 48,000 in 2020 and 18,000 in 2021, according to change of address data from the US Postal Service collected by Riordan Frost, senior research analyst at Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
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“It’s fair to say there’s some recovery happening in terms of people moving there,” Frost told Recode.
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California as a whole saw more people leave the state than enter in 2022, with a deficit of 343,000, but that was down from nearly 500,000 net people leaving in 2021. County-level Census data for 2022 will be out in March, but so far there’s only visibility through 2021.
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Perhaps all of this represents a natural middle ground, as people try to find both a better quality of life and opportunity. For many, that might <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/pandemic-suburbs-are-best/613300/">once again</a> be in the suburbs outside big cities.
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<li><strong>The sexual battery allegations against conservative power broker Matt Schlapp, explained</strong> -
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Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2019. | Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images
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A powerful Republican insider has been accused of groping a staffer on Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign.
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A lawsuit was filed by an anonymous accuser Tuesday against Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes, two prominent Republican insiders in Washington, DC, alleging sexual battery and defamation. The two are a conservative power couple at the intersection between traditional movement conservatism and the MAGA wing of the GOP.
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The lawsuit originates from October 2022, when Schlapp allegedly groped and propositioned a male staffer on Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign while appearing at events for the Georgia Republican. The incident, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-staffer-matt-schlapp-groped-my-crotch">first reported by the Daily Beast</a>, was promptly reported to senior officials on the Walker campaign, which Vox has been able to confirm.
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The lawsuit not only targets Schlapp for what is described as “aggressively fondling [the plaintiff’s] genital area in a sustained manner,” but for what it describes as an organized effort by Schlapp and his wife to discredit and defame the accuser. The lawsuit also alleges that the accuser was defamed by Charlie Spies, Schlapp’s lawyer, and Caroline Wren, a Republican operative involved in the infamous January 6, 2021, rally in Washington, DC, in addition to the Schlapps. The lawsuit includes a text that Mercedes Schlapp sent to a neighborhood group chat that falsely described the accuser as “a troubled individual who has been fired for lying.”
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Who is Matt Schlapp?
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Schlapp is at the center of the conservative establishment in Washington. The former political director in the George W. Bush White House, in 2014 he became head of the American Conservative Union (ACU), the right-wing group that puts on the annual, highly influential Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) conference. Schlapp’s prominence grew during the Trump administration when he became a vocal ally of the former president, appearing regularly on Fox News, and Mercedes Schlapp became a top staffer inside the Trump White House. At the same time, Schlapp, a father of five, maintained an active lobbying presence through his firm Cove Strategies and raked in millions during the Trump administration. As authors <a href="https://twitter.com/lachlan">Lachlan Markay</a> and <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/film-review-grown-ups-2-two-words/">Asawin Suebsaeng</a> described them in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sinking-Swamp-Minions-Poisoned-Washington-ebook/dp/B07SGMVL9S">their critically acclaimed book <em>Sinking in the Swamp</em></a><em>, </em>“the Schlapps have carved out a niche for themselves as a Trump-era power couple, wielding influence in the president’s inner circle and translating that influence into lucrative lobbying deals.”
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Why does he matter?
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Schlapp matters because of the ACU and CPAC. There are a lot of well-connected Republicans inside the Beltway, and certainly a number of Trump allies, who have tried to leverage their connections with the former president into becoming right wing media personalities. But what separates Schlapp from your average Tom, Dick, or Seb Gorka is his control over CPAC. The conference is the annual measuring stick of the conservative movement’s id and has followed the <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/the-new-foreign-flavor-of-cpacs-red-meat.html">right’s drift into Trumpism</a> as <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21398132-posobiec-denied-cpac">figures once banned</a> from the conference as extremists now are <a href="https://twitter.com/cpac/status/1587070635011776512?lang=en">featured speakers</a>. It’s the place that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cpac/mcconnell-brings-gun-prop-cpac-n45961">establishment politicians appear</a> when they need to woo conservatives and where conservative politicians <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2011/02/10/ted-cruz-wrangles-donald-trump-at-cpac-calls-obama-a-communist/">show up to get noticed</a>.
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CPAC also is a profit-making center where sponsors try to get the conservative movement to embrace their policy goals. In the Trump era, traditional corporate sponsors <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/business/media/paul-schweizer-google-facebook.html">have backed away</a> for more <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/02/trump-allies-at-cpac-2021/">MAGA-inclined groups and companies</a>. The fights over what topics are and aren’t discussed at CPAC are heated. Most recently, traditional social conservatives complained that abortion <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1501697185834053636">had been sidetracked</a> in favor of MAGAworld favorites like targeting big tech and “wokeism.”
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Finally, CPAC is a scene. It draws Republican officeholders, aspiring officeholders, operatives, consultants, grifters, and just plain weirdos from across the country. It’s a place where attendees show up dressed as George Washington, a disgraced Congress member has <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/03/cpac-2014-steve-stockman-s-awesome-hot-tub-party.html">a hot tub party</a>, and where a lot of the sausage-making of Washington networking gets done. While other conservative groups like TPUSA have held buzzier events with high-profile speakers as well, CPAC still maintains a unique convening power on the right.
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The suit raises questions about whether Schlapp will be able to retain his highly prominent role as head of the ACU and comes only weeks before CPAC’s annual conference in early March, which typically draws international attention. The conference has partnered with conservative LGBT groups in the past, like GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans, although it also hosted speakers like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2022/08/05/shunned-from-state-gop-convention-gay-republicans-say-they-feel-more-welcome-at-cpac/">denounced same-sex marriage</a> on stage at last year’s conference in Texas.
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What happens now
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In a statement to Vox, Tim Hyland, a lawyer for the accuser, said: “Our client is the victim of a sexual assault by Mr. Schlapp … Mr. Schlapp has not directly denied our client’s allegations and with good reason — they are unmistakably true and corroborated by extensive contemporaneous evidence. Instead, he has through his friends and associates started a whisper campaign and leveled social media attacks spreading lies about our client.
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“We intend to keep a singular focus to demonstrate that Matt Schlapp is a sexual predator who assaulted our client. Because Mr. Schlapp has refused to own up to his behavior, this suit aims to make Mr. Schlapp and those who lie for him accountable for their actions.” The suit asks for at least <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/politics/matt-schlapp-groping-accusation.html">$9.4 million</a> in damages.
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In a <a href="https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1615430319871516693">statement</a> posted by Schlapp on Twitter, Spies said: “This anonymous complaint demonstrates the accuser’s real agenda, working in concert with [the] Daily Beast to attack and harm the Schlapp family. The complaint is false and the Schlapp family is suffering unbearable pain and stress due to the false allegation from an anonymous individual. No family should ever go through this, and the Schlapps and their legal team are assessing counter-lawsuit options.”
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Neither Schlapp nor Spies responded to follow-up requests for comment from Vox.
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Reviewer buys 16TB portable SSD for $70, proves it’s a sham</strong> - What’s 15,936GB between friends? - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1910529">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>70% of drugs advertised on TV are of “low therapeutic value,” study finds</strong> - Ads often tout new, pricey drugs that are not much better than old, cheaper ones. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1910684">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>“Talented but crazy”: Potential jurors give court their opinions on Elon Musk</strong> - Jury selection in Tesla trial proceeds as Musk lawyer expresses “grave concerns.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1910686">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>More malicious packages posted to online repository. This time it’s PyPI</strong> - It’s not always easy to spot malicious impostors posing as legit downloads. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1910644">link</a></p></li>
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He picks her up and brings her home where he makes love to her, after ten minutes of fucking he asks her “are you finish?” To which she replies “no”
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Determined not to leave his lady companion unsatisfied; he gets on top of her and and fucks her until she moans loudly, he goes for another ten minutes until they are both sweating
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“Are you finish?” He asks her
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“No” is her answer
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This time he breathes deeply, slaps himself in the face with both hands and starts giving her the shagging of her life, she moans almost screams, fifteen minutes later they are both covered in sweat and panting heavily
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“Are.. you … finish?” He asks her one more time
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“No… I’m…. Norwegian” she answers
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>I asked the gym trainer what type of machine i should use to get the best looking women</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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He said the ATM outside
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Budget_Builder_979"> /u/Budget_Builder_979 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10eyvg6/i_asked_the_gym_trainer_what_type_of_machine_i/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10eyvg6/i_asked_the_gym_trainer_what_type_of_machine_i/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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There were three couples, one elderly, one middle aged, and one newlywed, that wanted to join a church. So the minister tells them that in order to be members they must abstain from sex for two whole weeks.
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After two weeks, the minister asks the elderly couple if they had abstained. “Yes, no problem!”So the minister welcomes them to the church.
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Then he asks the middle aged couple the same question “Well, after one week, the husband had to sleep on the couch, but we made it!” So the minister welcomes them to the church.
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Then the minister asks the newlywed couple if they had abstained from sex for two weeks.
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“We were unable to abstain. On the third day, my wife dropped a can of corn and when she bent over to pick it up, LUST and PASSION overcame me! I took her right there.”
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“I’m sorry,” the minister says, “but you are both banned from this church!”
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“We understand,” says the husband, “We were banned from the grocery store, too.”
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[I remembered this one when another grocery store joke was posted. Far from OC. H/T <a href="https://www.reddit.com/u/TheNewsGlogal">u/TheNewsGlogal</a>. I would post the link but then this will be immediately taken down by the mods.]
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Waitsfornoone"> /u/Waitsfornoone </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10edf4m/young_couple_gets_banned_from_church/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10edf4m/young_couple_gets_banned_from_church/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A guy catches his best friend smelling his sister’s panties and gets really mad.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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It didn’t help that she was still wearing them.
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It made the rest of the funeral very awkward.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Individual_Ad_4899"> /u/Individual_Ad_4899 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10efj7v/a_guy_catches_his_best_friend_smelling_his/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10efj7v/a_guy_catches_his_best_friend_smelling_his/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Are we sure the first person to discover CPR…</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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Wasn’t just a very surprised necrophiliac?
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kanecastlecastle"> /u/kanecastlecastle </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10emg35/are_we_sure_the_first_person_to_discover_cpr/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10emg35/are_we_sure_the_first_person_to_discover_cpr/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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