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The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has been allocated Rs 13,539 crore in the 2024-2025 budget, an increase of 37 per cent from the 2023-2024 revised estimates of Rs 9,853.32 crore. This increase is primarily focused on enhancing <keyword id="20312810" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="welfare-programmes" source="keywords">welfare programmes</keyword> for <keyword id="21384605" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="marginalised-communities" source="keywords">marginalised communities</keyword> and improving infrastructure for social services. The key areas of funding include Rs 9,549.98 crore for the 'Umbrella Scheme for Development of Scheduled Castes', a significant increase from the Rs 6,780 crore in the previous financial year. For achieving social justice comprehensively, the saturation approach of covering all eligible people through various programmes, including those for education and health, will be adopted, Finance Minister <keyword id="19916618" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nirmala-Sitharaman" source="keywords">Nirmala Sitharaman</keyword> said on Tuesday while presenting the 2024-25 Union Budget in Parliament. She said to ensure <keyword id="22517725" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="inclusive-human-resource-development" source="keywords">inclusive human resource development</keyword>, a social justice saturation approach will be adopted. Social justice through the saturation approach refers to a strategy where the government aims to ensure that all eligible individuals are covered by various programmes and initiatives. The department has been allocated Rs 2,150 crore for the 'Umbrella Programme for Development of Other Vulnerable Groups' and Rs 314 crore for the National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction. The establishment expenditure of Rs 145.80 crore for the central administration includes allocations for the secretariat and national commissions. The amount is a slight decrease from the previous year's Rs 152.60 crore. The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has been allocated Rs 38 crore and the National Commission for Backward Classes Rs 21 crore. The budget of the Development and Welfare Board for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities remains at Rs 5 crore. Central sector schemes and projects are among the focus areas of this budget, with the <keyword id="22517726" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="scholarships-for-higher-education" source="keywords">Scholarships for Higher Education</keyword> for Young Achievers Scheme for Scheduled Castes being allocated Rs 428 crore. This scheme encompasses various sub-schemes, including the National Fellowship for SCs, Free Coaching for SCs and OBCs, Top Class Education for SCs and the National Overseas Scholarship for SCs. The Scheme of Residential Education for Students in High School in Targeted Areas for SCs has been allocated Rs 133.07 crore. The department also prioritises <keyword id="22024434" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="economic-assistance" source="keywords">economic assistance</keyword> and <keyword id="20068989" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="skill-development" source="keywords">skill development</keyword> through initiatives like the Pradhan Mantri Dakshta Aur Kushalta Sampann Hitgrahi Yojana -- that has been allocated Rs 130 crore -- and the <keyword id="20245482" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="venture-capital-fund" source="keywords">Venture Capital Fund</keyword> for SCs and OBCs -- that has bee allocated Rs 50 crore. Additionally, the Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers, which previously had allocations, does not feature in the current budget, indicating a possible reallocation of funds or a change in strategy. Support for marginalised individuals, particularly through the Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise programme, which includes comprehensive rehabilitation for persons engaged in begging and welfare of transgender persons, has been allocated Rs 98.46 crore. This marks a substantial increase from the previous year's Rs 32.82 crore, highlighting a growing commitment to addressing these vulnerable groups' needs. Transfers to states and Union Territories under centrally sponsored schemes form a major part of the budget.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>New data from the Census Bureau reveals construction spending by US manufacturers more than doubled from last year.</li><li>The US government has offered billions of dollars in subsidies in the electric vehicles, semiconductor, and solar panels industries.</li></ul>Last year, production at American factories increased — and so did the production of factories themselves.According to <a href="https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/monthlysubnational.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data from the Census Bureau</a> released last week, construction spending by US manufacturers more than doubled over the past year. For April 2023, the annual rate reached nearly $190 billion compared with $90 billion in June 2022, with manufacturing accounting for around 13% of non-government construction.The US government has offered billions of dollars in subsidies for the production of electric vehicles and solar panels to compete with countries such as China and to fortify US leadership in sectors including clean energy. <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.CD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to the World Bank</a>, China makes up around 30% of global value added from manufacturing, about double the US. Over the last few decades, Asia has taken up a greater share of global factory manufacturing.Factories are being constructed everywhere from deserts to resort towns as the US tries to bring back manufacturing of goods commonly imported from lower-cost countries. Many battery and electric vehicle factories have popped up in the Rust Belt, while solar panel and renewable energy factories now span much of the South and Southeast.The US has added around 800,000 jobs in manufacturing employment over the last two years, employing around 13 million workers per the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report</a>. However, according to the <a href="https://www.nam.org/2-1-million-manufacturing-jobs-could-go-unfilled-by-2030-13743/?stream=workforce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Association of Manufacturers</a>, the manufacturing skills gap — caused by the labor market's struggle to find workers with highly technical and manual expertise — could lead to 2.1 million unfilled jobs by 2030.Manufacturing, though, has accelerated its move back to the US from other countries over the past year. According to Kearney's 2022 Reshoring Index, 96% of American companies have shifted production to the US or are evaluating reshoring operations — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/made-in-america-companies-bringing-manufacturing-back-to-us-2022-7">a spike from 78%</a> in the 2021 index.The sudden rise in factory construction corresponds with passage of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-advances-chips-plus-semiconductors-china-bill-2022-7">CHIPS and Science Act</a> in July 2022, which provided $280 billion in funding to boost manufacturing of semiconductors, as well as the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-inflation-reduction-act-means-finances-tax-health-climate-democrats-2022-8">Inflation Reduction Act</a> in August 2022. The IRA has sought to create new jobs in manufacturing, construction, and renewable energy, estimated to create up to <a href="https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Modeling-the-Inflation-Reduction-Act-with-the-US-Energy-Policy-Simulator_August.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1.5 million jobs</a> by 2030.Construction spending in most areas of the US economy has fallen in contrast, including office, health care, and educational construction. Residential construction has also declined amid a big cooldown from the pandemic housing market boom.Census Bureau data reveals manufacturing construction spending has escalated from January 2020 until April 2023 in every region except New England and the Mid Atlantic.While the spending boom could lead in turn to a future manufacturing boom, the new factories need to actually get built first. Much of this spending may go toward legal setbacks or delays from the National Environmental Policy Act, requiring projects with federal involvement to conduct environmental impact reviews.Some Chinese companies have recently <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-supply-chains-moving-companies-outside-mainland-2023-4#as-southeast-asias-second-largest-economy-thailand-is-an-established-auto-hub-2">moved supply chains out of the country</a>, following in the footsteps of some Western countries following the 2018 trade war with China. Tensions with the US and rising costs have pushed some Chinese companies to look to India, Thailand, and Vietnam for manufacturing.

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New Delhi, Nov 18 () Collecting agricultural data in a decentralised economy is a big challenge and there is a need to adopt new technologies like big data and artificial intelligence to get more scientific information for policy making, Chief Statistician Pravin Srivastava said on Monday.
To produce quality data, there is a need to look at how data is collected, he noted.
Addressing the global conference on agricultural statistics here, Srivastava said: "Even though agriculture contributes about 17 per cent to the country's GDP, almost 50 per cent of the workforce is dependent on agriculture. ...We have huge informal economy and measuring an informal economy is a big challenge that the statistical system faces".
The country's decentralised economy and statistical set up pose a challenge in developing and collecting data. The machinery in the state and central government is facing these challenges on a day-to-day basis, he said.
As the demand for traditional data continues to increase, there is a need to look at the respondent burden in terms of how data is collected, Srivastava said, adding that quality data is required as decisions are taken based on that information.
Srivastava, secretary in the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation (MoSPI), further said, "If you want to look at climate change and its impact on agriculture and farmers, we really need to look at getting data from non-inclusive methods using big data, artificial intelligence, and whatever new contemporary techniques coming. Adopt that and we can get more scientific information for policy making".
Echoing views, Niti Aayog member Ramesh Chand said India has produced some globally reputed statisticians and consequently could set up a set of statistical system.
"However, that is now a thing of the past, I feel we could not keep pace with the agriculture statistics in developed countries," he noted.
During the last couple of decades, a big gap has risen between developed and developing countries in terms of availability of statistical data, indicators, quality and statistical application in almost all fields, he said.
"It is more glaring in agriculture where real time data on most of the variables is not available. For instance, we often talk of food waste. But, there is no official estimate how much food production is wasted in developing countries. Simple land use statistics are available in time gap of 4-5 years. Same in case of data on irrigation," he said.
One of the reason for considerable time gap in availability of quality data, Chand said that the welfare country is still depend on manual reporting from revenue officials.
"We have made so much advance in remote sensing and satellite for collecting data. Their use in agriculture data is very low," he added. LUX BAL

Need to adopt AI, new tech for collecting more scientific agri-data: Chief Statistician

<ul><li>Industries across sectors are now falling into the umbrella of <keyword id="6357343" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Data-Science">data science</keyword> and analytics — adopting statistical evaluation and tools to gather insights from unstructured data. </li><li>Healthcare, BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance), Retail and Telecom are broadly the sectors luring the most <keyword id="1096926" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Data-scientists">data scientists</keyword>. </li><li>This emerging technology also opens up opportunities for statistical brains and insolvency professionals as banks look to crack down on debt and bad loans. </li></ul>Grocers and doctors alike are rushing to offer their services ‘digitally’. It means they are also gathering data which can be analysed and converted into a business proposition. It is needless to say that more and more businesses and industries across sectors are — adopting statistical evaluation and other tools to gather insights from unstructured data. The sectors which are wooing away the most data scientists are the usual suspects - healthcare, banking and financial services, insurance, retail and telecom. “In healthcare and pharmaceuticals, data science can supply solutions for problems where there is scope of manual error. For instance, it can assist the procedure of diagnosis and depicting cancer, neurotechnology and biosciences,” Ashish Malhotra, director at bitgrit Japan — a global data science community, told Business Insider. <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/5-industries-becoming-defined-by-big-data-and-analytics-e3e8cc0c0cf">Government healthcare departments</a> too can use it to analyse data of food safety inspection and other disease patterns. The number-crunching sectors - banks and financial enterprises too - are beefing up their data scientist teams. “Data needs statistical evaluation. Treasury, depicting credit default rate of a country or a city is important to banking systems,” Malhotra said. This science also helps <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/resolution-professionals-can-make-as-much-as-1-5-lakh-a-month-and-are-in-demand/articleshow/72136059.cms">insolvency professionals</a> to crack down on bad loans. Data analytics has become a tool for new-age retailers to disrupt the market. “Food outlets that have image recognition systems can draw predictions to understand the behavioural patterns — which in turn helps offer more customer satisfaction,” he added. It can also be used to predict inventory and stock. Telecom — to crack down on internet systems Large datasets in the telecom industry can also benefit from the technology. Telecom companies leverage it for 5G operations, and also fraud detection by identifying call patterns. “If we predict the behaviour of the people using the internet in the last six months using data analytics then we can specifically switch of those internet systems that are creating a nuisance in the system,” said Malhotra. And, there is a huge opportunity for growth. According to a <a href="http://bwcio.businessworld.in/article/Importance-of-Data-Science-ML-and-AI-in-Telecom-Industry/01-08-2018-156370/">study by McKinsey</a>, merely 30% of telcos invested in big data technologies. “I think, if we can use <keyword id="294572" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="20" keywordseo="machine-learning">machine learning</keyword> and <keyword id="107950" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="20" keywordseo="artificial-intelligence">artificial intelligence</keyword> to predict a fault, we can make a more proactive network which is error-free and can predict faults rather than let faults happen,” Randeep Sekhon, chief technology officer at Bharti Airtel <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/telecom/telecom-news/telcos-plan-to-use-ai-data-analytics-to-make-networks-smarter-more-efficient-ahead-of-5g-deployment/articleshow/68506355.cms?from=mdr">told</a> ET. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/become-a-data-scientist-in-3-months-if-you-are-a-software-engineer/articleshow/73044672.cms">It takes just three months for a software engineer to become a data scientist. Find out how</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/python-r-machine-learning-sql-top-skills-to-become-a-data-scientist/articleshow/70738261.cms">Three data scientists reveal what it takes to transition from physics to a data science career</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/checkout-top-10-most-popular-online-courses-in-india-in-2019-according-to-coursera/articleshow/72506599.cms">Two million took online AI courses in 2019 — and that includes CEOs as well</a>

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Introduced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the health insurance scheme with a grand vision is named as <keyword id="6199405" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="ayushman-bharat">Ayushman Bharat</keyword> providing the subscribers a medical expenses cover of up to Rs 5 lakh. Here is what you must know about the scheme and the eligibility criteria that will help you benefit from the scheme. Called by other names such as the National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) or Modicare, this government-sponsored health insurance scheme offers free coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year for medical care availed of at any government hospital or an empanelled medical care facility in India. The scheme is meant only for poor families and the economically deprived segments of the society. The scheme aims to cover about 10.74 crore beneficiary families and around 50 crore Indian citizens. Key aspects of <keyword id="6199968" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ayushman-Bharat-scheme">Ayushman Bharat scheme</keyword> The medical insurance cover will provide a maximum of about Rs 5 lakhs per family per year on secondary as well as tertiary medical care availed of from medical facilities. Eligibility is strictly based on the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) database and those that are eligible will be covered by the program automatically without having to register for it. If a person from an eligible family is hospitalized, the family need not spend on the treatment when they visit a government or an empanelled private hospital for treatment. The policy covers all kinds of diseases and the benefit offers coverage both for pre and post hospitalization expenses. Unlike other kinds of medical insurance schemes, there is no waiting period for pre-existing ailments. Though Aadhaar card is not a mandated requirement for availing of the medical care under the Ayushman Bharat scheme, the beneficiaries will have to produce a prescribed ID at the hospital to receive free treatment. Eligibility criteria for Ayushman Bharat scheme in rural areas 1. Families inhabiting a single room or a domicile with “kuchcha walls and kuchcha roof" 2. Families in which there is no adult member in the age group 16 and 59 3. Family headed by a female with no adult male member belonging to the 16-59 age group 4. Families in which there is at least one disabled member and no able-bodied adult member 5. SC/ST households 6. Landless households making a majority of their earnings from manual casual labour 7. Extremely poor and those individuals surviving on alms 8. Families of manual scavengers 9. Families belonging to primitive tribal groups Eligibility criteria for Ayushman Bharat scheme in urban areas As per the guidelines issues as part of the Ayushman Bharat scheme, the following 11 occupational categories of workers are included in the list automatically. 1. <keyword id="6470258" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Domestic-worker">Domestic worker</keyword> 2. Street vendor, cobbler, hawker, and other service providers working on the streets 3. Construction worker, plumber, mason, labour, painter, welder, security guard, coolie and other head-load workers 4. Sweeper, sanitation worker, and gardener 8. Home-based worker, artisan, handicrafts worker, and tailor 9. Transport worker, driver, conductor, helper to drivers and conductors, cart puller, and rickshaw puller 10. Shop worker, assistant, peon in small establishment, helper, delivery assistant, attendant, and waiter 11. Electrician, mechanic, assembler, and repair worker 12. Washer-man, and chowkidar 13. Homeless people

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<ul><li><keyword id="6355127" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="employment">Employment</keyword> in the <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword> dropped by the most since 2009, signalling that more pain may lay ahead for British-based workers, data released Tuesday showed.</li><li>The number of UK employees on payrolls fell in July by 730,000 from March, when the <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> crisis had just begun.</li><li>"The alarm bells couldn't be ringing any louder. Ministers must act now to protect and create <keyword id="11018" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jobs">jobs</keyword>," the general secretary of the national federation of trade unions said. </li><li>Those claiming <keyword id="6358907" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="unemployment">unemployment</keyword> benefits, which includes universal credit and jobseeker's allowance, rose about 117% to 2.7 million in July from March 2020.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Jobs in the UK have seen the largest quarterly drop since the 2009 global financial crisis, according to <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/august2020">data released</a> by the national statistics agency Tuesday. Early indicators showed that the number of employees on payroll in July dropped by 730,000 as compared to March, when the COVID-19 crisis began, the Office of National Statistics said.Data showed about 33 million people were employed in Britain between April and June — an annual jump of 113,000, but a drop of 220,000 from the prior quarter.<div type="image" title="Screenshot 2020 08 11 at 9.39.43 AM" height="360" width="374" msid="77483016" hostid="261"></div>"The alarm bells couldn't be ringing any louder. Ministers must act now to protect and create jobs," <a href="https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/ministers-must-extend-job-retention-scheme-save-jobs-says-tuc">said</a> Frances O'Grady, general secretary at the Trades Union Congress, which represents the majority of UK trade unions."That means extending the job retention scheme for businesses with a viable future who can't operate because of virus restrictions. It means investing in the jobs we need for the future in green industries, social care and across the public sector. And it means ensuring a decent safety net is in place to help those who lose their jobs get back on their feet."Read More: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-sold-wells-fargo-stock-david-kass-2020-8">Warren Buffett may have dumped his entire Wells Fargo stake last quarter, finance professor David Kass says</a>Data showed the UK's headline unemployment rate stood at 3.9% for April to June, the period that covered the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, unchanged from a previous reading.But the figures mask the true picture of job losses, as many employees were temporarily safeguarded under the UK government's furlough scheme that supported wage continuity.Economists at consultancy Capital Economics predict the unemployment rate will reach its peak at around 7% by mid-2021."The cracks evident in the latest batch of labour market data are likely to soon turn into a chasm with the unemployment rate rising from 3.9% to around 7.0% by mid-2021," Capital Economics said in a <a href="https://www.capitaleconomics.com/publications/uk-economics/uk-data-response/labour-market-jun-jul-2/">report</a>. The UK's claimant count, or those who applied for unemployment benefits, more than doubled, rising by about 117% to 2.7 million in July from March 2020."A large number of people are estimated to be temporarily away from work, including furloughed workers; approximately 7.5 million in June 2020, with over 3 million of these being away for three months or more," the ONS said."New analysis shows that the youngest workers, oldest workers and those in manual or elementary occupations, were those most likely to be temporarily away from paid work during the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> (COVID-19) pandemic."Read More: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/investing-advice-4-small-cap-sectors-to-buy-amid-coronavirus-2020-8">A Wall Street expert breaks down why investors should be giving more weight to small companies in their portfolios — and says these 4 sectors are set to boom amid the pandemic fallout</a>

The number of people employed in the UK dropped by the most since 2009 — a sign the jobs market may face yet more pain from the COVID-19 crisis

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="45304" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Stimulus">Stimulus</keyword> checks and enhanced <keyword id="414451" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="unemployment-benefits">unemployment benefits</keyword> are making it harder for companies to hire.</li><li>"Why work when you can get more staying home?" said a <keyword id="6378093" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mcdonalds">McDonald's</keyword> franchisee. </li><li><keyword id="6357342" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hiring">Hiring</keyword> for some unskilled jobs was difficult pre-pandemic and could get worse in the coming years.</li></ul>Companies are struggling to hire, and some say the stimulus package is to blame. In March, Congress passed a stimulus package that included <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/third-stimulus-check">up to $1,400 in direct payments for individuals.</a> The package also included weekly payments of $300 in federal <keyword id="6358907" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="unemployment">unemployment</keyword> aid through September, in addition to unemployment benefits paid out by states."The biggest challenge out there is the federal government and the state government are going to continue with this unemployment," Blake Casper, who owns 60 McDonald's locations in Florida, recently told Insider. "That is truly creating the incentive to not work right now," added Casper, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-pays-50-for-job-interviews-highlighting-hiring-struggles-2021-4">who has tested giving away $50 for anyone who comes in for a job interview.</a> "And, how do you blame somebody? You can make more money on unemployment." A federal program that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-benefits-may-be-higher-than-wages-for-some-workers-2020-4">paid $600 a week in unemployment benefits</a> for part of 2020 meant that two-thirds of people collecting benefits made more than they had when they were employed, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-benefits-boosted-economy-cares-act-coronavirus-make-more-jobs-2020-7">according to economists at the University of Chicago.</a> While the current $300 in federal benefits is less substantial, it still has the potential to make up for lost wages, especially when combined with enhanced state benefits, business owners said.Jake Abramson, a chef in Brookline, Massachusetts, told Insider that unemployment benefits paid him roughly $400 more per paycheck than his job after he was laid off in March 2020.He said he took a significant pay cut when he lost his unemployment benefits several months later because he returned to work to avoid a career setback.If he was working in another job where he was simply clocking the hours, Abramson said, his calculus would be different. "I would definitely take the unemployment over that," Abramson said. <h2>Companies are struggling to hire, and some blame stimulus benefits</h2><div type="image" title="McDonald's worker" height="1899" width="2532" msid="82183261" hostid="261"></div>John Motta, a <keyword id="597891" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dunkin">Dunkin</keyword>' franchisee who serves as chairman of the Coalition of Franchisee Association, said the math just doesn't add up for many people deciding between unemployment benefits and working at a fast-food chain. <a href="https://www.wpri.com/business-news/its-hard-to-compete-with-unemployment-ri-restaurants-struggle-with-staffing/">In Rhode Island, for example,</a> the average weekly unemployment check is $270 from the state, plus $300 in federal benefits - $570 total. In 2020, the median weekly earnings in the the restaurant industry was $582 nationally, <a href="https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag722.htm">according to US Bureau of Labor and Statistics data. </a>"It's gotten to a crisis status today," Motta said. A McDonald's franchisee told Insider that he had been unable to open dining rooms because he didn't have enough workers to staff locations."Why work when you can get more staying home?" the franchisee said. "Stimulus and unemployment are killing the workforce."Staffing struggles <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployed-workers-arent-returning-to-the-labor-force-jobless-benefits-2021-4">extend far beyond the fast food industry. </a>"There is an insatiable appetite in America for unskilled labor," said Marc Wulfraat, the president of logistics consulting firm MWPVL. Ryan Alovis, the CEO of LensDirect, told Insider that the vision care company is struggling to hire employees, particularly for shipping, inventory, and distribution positions. The company is facing "chronic no-shows," with only 50 percent of candidates showing up for scheduled interviews. Only half of those who are hired ultimately show up on their first day."It's ghosting," Alovis said. "It's very rare that we'll get a reason." Alovis said that a number of factors are making hiring difficult. He said he supports federal benefits, but believes that the higher unemployment payments and stimulus checks are playing a role. "I think that the government needs to be more methodical with how they're offering these benefits and to whom they're offering these benefits," Alovis said. "I think that the government needs to incentivize people to get back to work." <h2>Critics say that employers are too quick to blame benefits</h2><div type="image" title="Outback Steakhouse" height="800" width="1067" msid="82183264" hostid="261"></div>Last week, an Outback Steakhouse in Memphis sparked backlash online over a sign that said "people just do not want to work," due to "stimulus money and tax time." Tami Sawyer, a local county commissioner, posted a photo of the sign to Twitter."For the Outbackers that do show up for work, we ask for your understanding and patience," the sign read. Sawyer told Insider that she was disappointed by the sign. (A representative for Outback told Insider the sign was posted by an employee without approval from the restaurant or company, and was quickly removed.) "I've been very involved with COVID-19 public health and economic recovery as a commissioner," Sawyer said. "People who were working low wage jobs before the pandemic struggled as their places of employment closed. They had to pivot to other work like Amazon."Sawyer said that assumptions about why people do not return to the same job or industry as businesses reopen make her bristle, especially when there are accusations of laziness. "It's racially and economically coded," Sawyer said. "Misperceptions and prejudice assumes working class people are just sitting around buying beer with their $1,400 and that's just not the story." Credit Suisse analyst Lauren Silberman told Insider that, while the stimulus is a factor in why it's difficult for companies to hire, it is not the root cause. Many industries were facing labor shortages before the pandemic. "People want to work, if they have the opportunity," Silberman said. Pre-pandemic, the unemployment rate <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-low-unemployment-rate-in-us-has-created-worker-deserts-2019-8">dropped to less than 3% in some states</a>, a figure that would be typical for a labor shortage. Unemployment is currently 6%, which would historically indicate plenty of people are looking for jobs. But, pandemic-era childcare concerns and fears of catching coronavirus have made returning to work less enticing for some employees. "I think there's a fear element," Silberman said. <h2>A fundamental shift in American labor could be brewing</h2>Some employers are considering raising wages to entice people to return to work.Casper, the McDonald's franchisee, said that he is considering raising starting wages from $12, which is more than $3 above Florida's minimum wage, to $13 per hour. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-subway-struggle-to-find-workers-forcing-changes-2021-4">Motta said</a> that companies are going to be forced to raise pay to compete, rendering higher minimum wage regulation obsolete.Higher pay will likely be offset with higher prices for consumers. In states that have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/15-minimum-wage-higher-menu-prices-waffle-house-potbelly-2020-11">passed minimum wage regulation,</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-waffle-house-other-chains-open-to-15-minimum-wage-2020-11">CEOs say the chains have passed on the costs to customers.</a>"It'll put people out of business, that's for sure," Motta said. "Will people pay $5 for a cup of coffee at Dunkin' Donuts? I don't know. I really doubt if they would. Would you pay six bucks for a hamburger at McDonald's?" Some employers will likely try to hold out on raising pay in hopes that more people will apply for lower-paying jobs as federal enhanced unemployment benefits expire in September. But Wulfraat said he expects hiring unskilled, inexpensive labor to only get worse in the coming years. The percentage of the US that is 65 or older is swiftly growing as Baby Boomers enter retirement age, cutting into the labor force. Younger workers are more likely to be tech savvy, Wulfraat said, making them more prepared to apply for skilled jobs that do not involve the manual labor of a warehouse or restaurant. "Think about all of the the trades where it's heavy, dirty, smelly - all those nasty jobs that have to get done," Wulfraat said. "Nobody wants to do that work anymore, cause there's other things they want to do. Their priorities are different."

Some companies are blaming stimulus benefits for their hiring struggles, saying workers can earn more money on unemployment

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>The Uighurs are a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in western China. The Communist Party sees them as terrorists, and has detained at least 1 million of them in recent years.</li><li>Leaked internal documents, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-detention-directive.html">published by The New York Times</a>, show the extent of Chinese efforts to suppress the Uighurs and deflect criticism.</li><li>A seven-page manual instructs officials to tell Uighur students returning home to find their relatives were imprisoned because they had been "infected" by "religious extremism."</li><li>The officials are instructed to liken the relatives' conditions to cancer or other diseases.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>China's Communist Party has a special manual instructing officials on how to deal with Uighur students who get back from university to find that their families have been imprisoned as part of the mass repression of the Uighur people.It includes help for dealing with questions on how and why their families were taken away, according to leaked internal documents <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-detention-directive.html">published by The New York Times</a>.The Uighurs are a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority largely based in Xinjiang, western China. Many Uighurs call the region East Turkestan.Under President Xi Jinping, China has installed a hi-tech police state in the region and detained at least 1 million Uighurs in prisons and camps. Former detainees have described physical and psychological torture in those centers.The 403 pages of internal documents, published by the Times on Saturday, detail the extent of China's efforts to deflect questions and criticism of unprecedented crackdown.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>One of the most striking parts is a question-and-answer briefing to explain to family members left behind why their relatives are gone.The documents encourages officials to liken the detained relatives' mental state to having a serious, contagious disease like SARS, which required the "quarantine" of the Uighur detention camps."If you were careless and caught an infectious virus like SARS, you'd have to undergo enclosed, isolated treatment, because it's an infectious illness."<h2>'A chillingly bureaucratic guide' to repression</h2>The documents include instructions for local officials to corner Uighur students returning home for the holidays, as soon as they arrive, to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-uighurs-tiktok-douyin-communicate-oppression-2019-8">stop them from speaking more widely</a> about what is going on.The cache of documents include a seven-page guide for officials in Turpan City, east Xinjiang, on what to tell students when they ask about their vanished families.The guide includes 13 questions and model answers. The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html">described</a> it as "chillingly bureaucratic."When students ask where their relatives are, officials are told to say: "They're in a training school set up by the government to undergo collective systematic training, study and instruction."Many Uighurs are arrested or forced into detention on flimsy charges, such as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/family-of-uighurs-in-china-say-are-blocked-deleted-by-scared-family-2019-2">texting people outside Xinjiang</a> or <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-gives-these-excuses-to-imprison-uighur-ethnic-minority-2018-9">setting their clocks to two hours ahead of Beijing's time zone</a> to align with Xinjiang's natural daylight schedule.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>The document also tells officials to say detainees "have very good conditions for studying and living there," and that tuition, food, and living costs are all free of charge.Former detainees have described detention centers as being <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/muslim-woman-describes-horrors-of-chinese-concentration-camp-2019-10">overcrowded and having almost nonexistent hygiene standards</a>. They have also recalled being <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/life-inside-china-internment-camps-for-uighur-minority-in-xinjiang-bbc-report-2018-8">shackled to chairs and forced to sing propaganda songs</a> to get food.Officials are also instructed to tell Uighur students that their relatives had been sent away "because they have come under a degree of harmful influence in religious extremism and violent terrorist thoughts," which could lead to "severe" consequences if they acted on them.If asked why relatives have to be detained to receive their "training," officials are told to liken their condition to a disease or a cancer that requires a quarantine."If you were careless and caught an infectious virus like SARS, you'd have to undergo enclosed, isolated treatment, because it's an infectious illness," the officials are told to say, referring to the deadly respiratory disease."If you weren't thoroughly cured, as soon as you returned home you would infect your family with this virus, and your whole family would fall ill."Another part of the document says that the "training" has to be done being closed doors because "otherwise, they will never be able to thoroughly eradicate this stubborn cancer in their thinking and could easily again be swindled and exploited."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>Officials are also instructed to tell students that to be grateful that their family members are receiving this "free education.""Treasure this chance for free education that the party and government has provided to thoroughly eradicate erroneous thinking, and also learn Chinese and job skills," officials are told to say. "This offers a great foundation for a happy life for your family."Many relatives of detained Uighurs in Xinjiang say their relatives are professionals - such as doctors and editors - and do not need vocational training.China has acknowledged the existence of some "re-education camps," but repeatedly denied any reports of torture.The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement activist group <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-uighur-prison-camp-suspected-locations-maps-2019-11">published the locations of 465 prisons and detention centers</a> last week. The group noted that at least 72 of those camps had not been declared before, suggesting Chinese authorities may be expanding the detention program.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>The Times' tranche of documents also contain other shocking details about China's crackdown, including:<ul><li>Xi had been warning officials as early as 2014 to ignore criticism about Xinjiang.</li></ul>He told a closed-door meeting in May 2014, according to The Times: "Don't be afraid if hostile forces whine, or if hostile forces malign the image of Xinjiang."Officials have repeatedly batted away foreign criticism - including from the US and UN - over its human-rights record, insisting that what happens in Xinjiang is an internal matter, even though many of those detained are actually citizens of other countries.Last month, China's UN ambassador also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/30/china-warns-us-criticism-of-uighur-detentions-is-not-helpful-for-trade-talks">warned</a> that criticism over Xinjiang could jeopardize <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/us-china-trade-war">US-China trade talks</a>.<ul><li>Authorities set numeric targets for Uighur detentions in various parts of Xinjiang.</li></ul>Regional officials were under "relentless" pressure to detain Uighurs and prevent ethnic violence, The Times said.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div><ul><li>One official had private misgivings on the crackdown - and his confession, likely signed under duress, was circulated among the Communist Party as a warning to others.</li></ul>The government opened more than 12,000 investigations into officials in Xinjiang for not closely following its instructions to monitor and detain Uighurs, The Times reported, citing official statistics. But the story of Wang Yongzhi, an official in the western Yarkand county, was circulated most widely.According to The Times, Wang had complained that the Party's detention targets did not align with its economic ambitions for Xinjiang and secretly ordered the release of 7,000 Uighur prisoners.He disappeared from public in 2017, and the Party investigated him shortly afterward for "gravely disobeying the party central leadership's strategy for governing Xinjiang," the Times said.He later signed a confession, likely under duress, saying that he drank heavily on the job and "broke the rules" of the Communist Party.The document was later circulated widely and read aloud to Xinjiang officials to warn that any infractions could lead to a similar demise, according to The Times.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>The document leak to The Times hugely undermines Xi's grip on power. He rules the Communist Party with an iron fist, and has since his ascension to the presidency in 2012 purged dozens of officials in a nation-wide "anti-corruption" drive.The leaker was not named, but identified by The Times as "a member of the Chinese political establishment."They "expressed hope that their disclosure would prevent party leaders, including Mr. Xi, from escaping culpability for the mass detentions," The Times reported, paraphrasing its source.<h2><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html">Read the New York Times report here.</a></h2><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read Business Insider's coverage of the Uighurs:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-uighurs-tiktok-douyin-communicate-oppression-2019-8" data-read-more-link="" data-e2e-name="read-more-link">Muslims in China's most oppressed, closed-off region are turning to China's version of Gen Z favorite TikTok to communicate with the world</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/family-of-uighurs-in-china-say-are-blocked-deleted-by-scared-family-2019-2" data-read-more-link="" data-e2e-name="read-more-link">Relatives of China's oppressed Muslim minority are getting blocked online by their own family members, who are terrified to even tell them how bad their lives are</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/muslim-woman-describes-horrors-of-chinese-concentration-camp-2019-10" data-read-more-link="" data-e2e-name="read-more-link">Rape, medical experiments, and forced abortions: One woman describes horrors of Xinjiang concentration camps</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mans-family-vanished-saw-son-2-years-later-in-china-propaganda-video-2019-2" data-read-more-link="" data-e2e-name="read-more-link">This man's family vanished in China's most oppressed region. The next time he saw his son was 2 years later, in a Chinese propaganda video.</a></li></ul>

China tells Uighur Muslims they are abducting their families so they can cleanse their brains like they have a disease, leaked documents show

<div type="image" title="weinstein long bundy sex addiction" height="900" width="1200" msid="81609256" hostid="261"></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Police highlighted the Atlanta spa shooter's <keyword id="21884" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sex-addiction">sex addiction</keyword> when discussing his potential motives.</li><li>"<keyword id="6355231" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sex">Sex</keyword> <keyword id="6357421" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="addiction">addiction</keyword>" has been used as an excuse for criminals, despite no evidence that it leads to killing.</li><li>It's a misunderstood condition, and weaponizing it only hurts people.</li></ul>If Charlie Johnston could have it his way, he'd have sex every two hours for the rest of his life.Johnston, a 48-year-old engineer, considers himself a sex addict and has seen a sex therapist for his compulsion since he was 20. Back then, his addiction prevented him from completing homework and he became consumed with seeking out women to get the sex he craved.Today, thanks to his sex therapist, he has the tools to manage his cravings so he can have sex in a responsible and healthy way, Johnston told Insider. In fact, many of his colleagues have no clue he's a sex addict.So when Johnston saw headlines about an Atlanta massage parlor shooter's sex addiction, he was appalled."It didn't sit well with me because he used that as an out and that's not really an out," said Johnston. He added that after 40 years living with a sex addiction, he still craves it "all of the time" but would never consider killing someone because he didn't get his fix.After 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long killed <a href="https://www.insider.com/victims-atlanta-spa-shootings-identified-2021-3">six women of Asian descent</a> at Atlanta massage parlors on Tuesday, law enforcement officials and media outlets were <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/18/sex-addiction-atlanta-shooting-long/">quick to mention his sex addiction</a>. During a Wednesday press conference about the shooting, <a href="https://www.insider.com/georgia-shooting-sex-addiction-criminal-case-2021-3">local police said Long told them his sexual tendencies</a> motivated his decision, and that he viewed the massage parlors as a <a href="https://www.insider.com/robert-long-was-kicked-out-family-due-sex-addiction-cnn-2021-3">source of "temptation."</a> It was later revealed Long's family recently <a href="https://www.insider.com/robert-long-was-kicked-out-family-due-sex-addiction-cnn-2021-3">kicked him out of their home</a> due to his sex addiction and that he'd previously attended a sex addiction treatment program. According to Long's former roommate 35-year-old Tyler Bayless, he <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/crime-georgia-spas-suspect-idINKBN2BA04Q">felt shame about his problem</a> and used the parlors as an outlet.While this information offers a bigger picture about the person Long is, it shouldn't be conflated with his crimes. <a href="https://www.insider.com/georgia-shooting-sex-addiction-criminal-case-2021-3">Sex addicts aren't wired to kill</a>. Any suggestion they do only serves to shame an <a href="https://americanaddictioncenters.org/sex-addiction">estimated 12 million Americans with compulsive behavior towards sex</a> who need help for their problems.<h2>Abusers have weaponized sex addiction in the past</h2>This isn't the first time a sex addiction diagnosis has been used to excuse bad behavior.During Harvey Weinstein's February 2020 trial, his friend Paul Feldsher said his behaviors could be <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/friend-of-harvey-weinstein-describes-him-as-sex-addict-while-disputing-annabella-sciorras-assault-claim/2020/02/06/4f0a0f18-4931-11ea-bdbf-1dfb23249293_story.html">attributed to a sex addiction</a> while on the witness stand. Weinstein was later <a href="https://www.insider.com/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-23-years-prison-rape-sexual-assault-conviction-2020-3">sentenced to 23 years in prison</a> for rape and sexual assault.Infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, while awaiting his execution, said his <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-01-24-8902270928-story.html">pornography addiction led him to kill 36 women</a>. And Ariel Castro, a man sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping three teenagers, trapping them in his basement, and raping them hundreds of times, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-castro-sentencing-hearing-details-of-horrific-captivity-emerge/2013/08/01/c7db93b8-faae-11e2-a369-d1954abcb7e3_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_5">called himself a "sex addict" and likened it to alcoholism</a> during his 2013 trial. Randy Park, the son of one of the women Long shot and killed, told the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/son-of-atlanta-shooting-victim-hyun-jung-grant-calls-bullshit-on-robert-aaron-long-sex-addiction-claim">Daily Beast</a> it's "bulls---" to blame Long's diagnosis.In addition to criminals' misuse of "sex addiction," people often use the term out of fear, to avoid discussing underlying <keyword id="6354774" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mental-health">mental health</keyword> issues, psychologist and sex therapist Joe Kort told Insider."I have clients that come to my office and their partner says, 'You're either a sex addict or a pervert, and I'm not going to stay married to a pervert, so you better be a sex addict,'" Kort said. "It reduces somebody to nothing. What does [sex addict] even mean? Let's say what it is. This person was struggling with mental illness and it came out sexually."<h2>Sex addiction isn't even an accepted diagnosis, let alone an excuse to kill</h2>Sex wasn't considered something a person could become addicted to until the 1980s. During that time, increased public fear about drug abuse and addiction <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232965/">pushed the US government to fund addiction research</a> and treatment programs. That's when sex addiction treatment programs popped up around the country. (Long attended one of these addiction programs for six months starting in late 2019, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/18/sex-addiction-atlanta-shooting-long/">Washington Post reported</a>.)The programs adopted the <a href="https://www.insider.com/atlanta-shooter-blamed-sex-addiction-experts-say-a-common-excuse-2021-3">12-step model commonly used in programs like Alcoholics Anonymous</a>, David Ley, a psychologist and author of "The Myth of Sex Addiction," previously told Insider.Unlike drug or alcohol addiction, however, a person with an insatiable need for sex isn't dealing with the same underlying issues. When a person is addicted to a substance, their <a href="https://www.insider.com/is-sex-addiction-real">brain is rewired to believe it needs</a> drugs or alcohol, Gail Saltz, an associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, previously told Insider.Someone with compulsive behavior towards sex, however, wouldn't feel withdrawal symptoms because their <a href="https://www.insider.com/atlanta-shooter-blamed-sex-addiction-experts-say-a-common-excuse-2021-3">brain isn't chemically rewired as a result of their behavior</a>. Often, it's a coping mechanism for trauma, or the result of an unusually high sex drive, Kort said.That's why American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the "Bible" of the profession, has yet to add "sex addiction" to its pages. Instead, it's <a href="https://www.insider.com/atlanta-shooter-blamed-sex-addiction-experts-say-a-common-excuse-2021-3">referred to as "compulsive sexual behavior."</a>The consensus among therapists is that sex addiction programs operate on the unfounded idea that it is a type of substance addiction and should be treated in the same fashion - with abstinence. That is why, therapists say, these programs have largely <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole-Prause/publication/324994711_Groupthink_in_Sex_and_Pornography_Addiction_Sex-Negativity_Theoretical_Impotence_and_Political_Manipulation/links/5ea707b2a6fdccd794586e50/Groupthink-in-Sex-and-Pornography-Addiction-Sex-Negativity-Theoretical-Impotence-and-Political-Manipulation.pdf">proven ineffective</a>.<h2>Sex addiction treatment programs, like the one Long attended, 'teach people to hate'</h2>Compulsion towards sex can be treated effectively. Sex therapy <a href="https://americanaddictioncenters.org/sex-addiction">considers why a person engages</a> in risky and perpetual sexual behaviors, rather than calling the sex itself a problem, and it's proven to work.Kort was a sex addiction treatment provider until he learned about the dangers of addiction recovery programs like the ones he used to run. He decided to pivot, and studied to become a licensed sex therapist."If you go to war with your sexuality, you will lose and cause more problems than when you started. So when people go to these meetings, they'll say, 'I have 30 days [without sex]. I have 60 days. I relapsed.' They're trying to fight their erotic orientation and that's never good," said Kort.On Tuesday March 16, soon after the shooting news broke, Ley posted a tweet, saying he suspected <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDavidLey/status/1372029948714643464">Long had </a>attended one of these non-evidence-based programs. He was right.In a <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDavidLey/status/1372218230941442050">Twitter thread</a> the next day, Ley said it was obvious to him, because sex addiction treatment programming "doesn't encourage people to understand, accept and manage their sexual desires.""Instead, it teaches people to hate. Specifically, to hate their own sexuality, and the things/people/stimuli which trigger them to feel sexually aroused," Ley wrote.<h2>Weaponizing sex addiction helps no one</h2>Johnston, despite seeing the barrage of "sex addict"-heavy headlines, has yet to read an entire story about the Atlanta shootings."I can't. It's so frustrating because he stigmatized the world that I live in," Johnston said."[The shooting] had nothing to do with being sex-deprived or being a sex addict, nothing at all."Rather than being a side point, Long's sex addiction and failed treatment became an excuse for his heinous behavior.That narrative, of a white male "sex addict" at his wit's end, helps no one.It just detracts from the racist and misogynistic undertones of the <keyword id="39494" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Crime">crime</keyword>, and minimizes Asian people's experiences with hate and violence. And it stigmatizes those with compulsive behavior towards sex, writing them off as violent people who are past the point of help.

Weaponizing sex addiction as an excuse for heinous crimes stigmatizes people who have a genuine problem

<ul class="summary-list"><li>This is a preview of The Internet of Things research report from Business Insider Intelligence.</li><li><a href="https://store.businessinsider.com/products/the-internet-of-things-report?IR=T&amp;itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=content_marketing&amp;itm_campaign=report_teaser&amp;itm_content=full_report_text&amp;itm_term=store_text_link-iot-technology-education&amp;vertical=connectivity#!/">Purchase this report.</a></li><li><a href="https://store.businessinsider.com/products/connectivity-tech-pro-membership?IR=T&amp;itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=content_marketing&amp;itm_campaign=report_teaser&amp;itm_content=top_text&amp;itm_term=bii_subscription_text_link-iot-technology-education">Business Insider Intelligence offers even more technology coverage with Connectivity &amp; Tech Pro. Subscribe today to receive industry-changing connectivity news and analysis to your inbox.</a></li></ul>The Internet of Things (IoT), the connection of devices - other than standard products such as computers and smartphones - to the Internet, is in the process of transforming numerous areas of our everyday lives. And while it might not seem like an obvious application of the IoT, education is on that list.The internet has deeply rooted itself into our schools, and e-learning has become common practice in the American school system. But the applications of the IoT in education are numerous, and the implications for this disruption are tremendous.The rise of mobile technology and the IoT allows schools to improve the safety of their campuses, keep track of key resources, and enhance access to information. Teachers can even use this technology to create "smart lesson plans," rather than the traditional stoic plans of yesteryear.Below, we've compiled a list of IoT education examples, including the uses of the IoT in higher education, the future of the internet in education, and examples of companies that are using the IoT to enter the education space.<h2>Impact of IoT &amp; Technology on Education</h2>According to an eMarketer <a href="https://www.emarketer.com/content/five-charts-understanding-gen-z-s-devices-and-digital-usage">estimate</a>, 83.2% of all 12- to 17-year-olds have a smartphone. Additionally, 73.0% of parents said their kids had a smartphone between ages 11 to 13, and 31.0% said their kids had one between ages 6 and 10.With that digitally native foundation upon which to build, it's easy to see how the Internet of Things is poised to radically transform education as we know it. Students who use their mobile devices in the classroom can automate tasks that they already do now, such as note-taking, schedule checking, and research.As for the schools, the greatest benefits would be <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/internet-of-things-utilities-water-electric-gas-2016-10">increased energy efficiency</a> and reduced operating costs. New Richmond schools in Tipp City, Ohio are saving approximately $128,000 each year by using a web-based system that controls all mechanical equipment inside the buildings.And the savings continue as schools invest in reusable resources, such as computers, tablets, and smartphones. An average school spends about $200,000 on paper annually - adding up to about 10% of most schools' budget - but reusable tech would completely eliminate that cost.As more schools adopt this technology, expect to see more "smart schools" pop up throughout the U.S. until they are the standard for American education.<h2>Internet and Higher Education</h2>The IoT can begin disrupting the education process as early as kindergarten and can continue to do so through 12th grade, but perhaps the most profound effects occur in higher education.Students, particularly in college, are increasingly moving away from paper books toward tablets and laptops. With all of the necessary information at their fingertips, students can now learn at their own pace and have a nearly identical educational experience in their homes and in the classroom. And while this trend provides increased convenience for students, it also makes the teaching process more efficient for professors. The surge in connected technology means that instructors do not need to manually grade tests on paper or perform other routine tasks.Instead, professors can focus on the actual, personal instruction that is most valuable to their students. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/internet-of-things-cloud-computing-2016-10">Devices connected to the cloud</a> allow professors to gather data on their students and then determine which ones need the most individual attention and care. These statistics also let teachers properly adjust their lesson plans for future classes.Outside of the classroom, universities can use connected devices to monitor their students, staff, and resources and equipment at a reduced operating cost, which saves everyone money. And these tracking capabilities should also lead to safer campuses. For example, students would be able to keep track of connected buses and adjust their schedules accordingly, which would prevent them from spending unnecessary time in potentially dangerous areas.<h2>IoT Applications in Education</h2>The foremost example of a tech company that has invaded schools is SMART, which pioneered the world's first interactive whiteboard in 1991. SMART boards changed the way teachers and students interacted in the classroom by moving lessons away from the dusty chalkboards that dominated education for decades.But SMART is far from the only company sinking its hooks into the U.S. school system. IPEVO has also manufactured a wireless interactive whiteboard - serving as a potential alternative to the SMART board. EdTech companies and startups are also developing services and applications to be used in the classroom. Ideapaint dove headlong into the IoT by developing an app called Bounce with the goal of bringing more of the educational experience online.Additionally, <a href="https://www.classdojo.com/">ClassDojo</a> - an education app available via the Apple Store and Google Play - allows parents to see student schoolwork via photos and videos. Class Dojo is used in 95% of all K-8 schools in the U.S. and 180 countries and messages can be translated into 35 languages automatically. <h2>More to Learn</h2>The Internet of Things (IoT) is powering transformation for enterprises, consumers, and governments. Emerging tools and technologies like smart speakers, machine learning, and 5G are enabling huge gains to efficiency and more control at home, in school, and in the workplace.The continued growth of the IoT industry is going to be a transformative force across all organizations. 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Support is building for an increase in the <keyword id="562632" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="minimum-wage">minimum wage</keyword> with Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Rep. George Miller (D-CA) introducing legislation to raise it to $10.10 an hour from the current level of $7.25. The Obama administration recently <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/11/07/white-house-official-obama-supports-harkinmiller-bid-to-increase-minimum-wage/">came out in support</a> of Harkin and Miller's bill and <a href="http://www.nelp.org/page/-/rtmw/uploads/Memo-Public-Support-Raising-Minimum-Wage.pdf?nocdn=1">polling</a> finds that most Americans are in favor of it as well.
The most important part of the legislation, though, may not be the wage hike, but that it indexes the minimum wage to inflation in the future. Every year that the minimum wage stays the same, its purchasing power decreases a little bit thanks to cost-of-living increases. Over time, these reductions add up. Here's a graph of the federal minimum wage since 1960 adjusted for inflation:
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Bureau of Labor Statistics</div></div></div>The nominal minimum wage has been the same since 2009, but its real value has decreased more than 8% in the past four years.
Just as <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-seniors-have-been-getting-screwed-by-how-we-calculate-social-security-2013-11">seniors have been screwed</a> for years by the use of an inaccurate statistic for inflation adjustment calculations, minimum wage workers have been screwed by the lack of any automatic adjustment at all.
In 1960, the nominal minimum wage was $1.00, but that is equal to nearly $8.00 in today's dollars. In fact, the real minimum wage peaked in 1968 at $10.74 an hour (2013 dollars). Since then, the purchasing power of the minimum wage has slowly fallen over time.
Occasionally, Congress manually adjusts the minimum wage upward. Due to adjustments in 2007, 2008 and 2009, the real minimum wage is now $1.26 higher than it was in 2006. But the manual adjustments haven't kept up with inflation over the long run.
For policymakers who support the minimum wage, no matter the level, it is inexcusable to not adjust it for inflation. The value of the minimum wage should not decrease over time thanks to congressional failure to annually adjust it. Already 11 states index their minimum wage to inflation to correct this. The federal government should follow suit.

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