Your periodic reminder that 80% of Singapore’s residents live in housing provided by the state theconversation.com/a-century-of...
Today in "Wait, WHAT?" I learned that Gene Wolfe — recondite, abstruse SF/F author Gene Wolfe — invented the machine that makes Pringles potato chips. It's on the company's own FAQ, which also implies his signature mustache may have inspired their ad mascot. www.pringles.com/en-us/faq.html
Another vote for this
It’s telling that the first trials of “magic pixie” AI in the public sector are being carried out by undervalued staff working with those already marginalised by society. Personally I’d make MPs use it for claiming expenses. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Magic Notes tool records and analyses face-to-face meetings and suggests follow-up actions
It won't stop there! Not if you add the cost of collapsing a few universities to this base cost. Britain: closed for business, not interested in growth one bit.
This may be useful - we tried some community rooted approaches to getting carers into work and we're able to find quite a few of the barriers. ageing-better.org.uk/resources/su...
This report looks at the needs of those with caring responsibilities trying to seek employment and how they can be supported back into work.
And half of people likely to be carers by the time they're 50. But for women it's a full decade earlier than men (46 and 57) www.birmingham.ac.uk/news-archive...
Dr Matthew Bennett and Dr Yanan Zhang have contributed to the Carers UK report, 'Will I Care?' which also suggests two-thirds of UK adults can expect to become an unpaid carer during their lifetimes.
We're seeing a big decline in volunteering locally due to care. It's sometimes not a direct cause of leaving work - care burdens in families can be pushed onto people without work, making it harder for some to re-enter employment. People might identify as retired at that point but it's involuntary
I recall a study where for 50% of women with existing care responsibilities in their 50's an increase of less than 5hrs/wk could see them drop out of the labour market entirely
You have a number of other factors as well in midlife. The 50's are the peak age to pick up care responsibilities and ageism starts in the 40's for women and 50's for men There's effectively a bunch of tipping points that coincide at this point.