June 15, 2023

Meanwhile. . .

Between 2007 and 2021, suicide rates among 10- to 24-year-olds soared 62% -- from 6.8 to 11 per 100,000, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While homicide rates were stable from 2001 through 2006 and dropped 28% between 2006 and 2014, they surged 60% through 2021. 

Edward Coram James, chief executive of PR agency Go Up, told Newsweek: "If Harry really wants the U.K. press to stop being unkind to Meghan, then there is only one thing that he should do about it. Step out of the limelight for a bit. If Harry and Meghan truly want the press to stop criticizing them, then they need to lay low. The press cycle will move on.

“We have evidence all around us that societal expectations of business are shifting,” Clarisse Magnin-Mallez said during a 2021 McKinsey Global Initiative  Inside the Strategy Room podcast. “I found it striking that 87 percent of people who were asked about the role of companies declared that they should create value for multiple interests, not just make profits.” The profit-from-the-top-down business model is changing, according to OwnCo co-founder Harry Wilson. Wilson and co-founders Sascha Kellert and Špela Prijon launched OwnCo in January 2023 to help early-stage businesses share ownership with their community contributors, empowering their voices in shaping and growing entities that affect them. 

The 8 metros with negative rent growth

Nine women filed a sexual assault lawsuit against Bill Cosby in Nevada on Wednesday, just weeks after the state passed a law eliminating the statute of limitations for civil cases.

Canadian wildfire smoke is back in the U.S. It hit north Minnesota yesterday morning, causing air quality to dip to unhealthy Code Red levels. By afternoon, the smoke had moved south to Minneapolis. Air quality alerts cover Minnesota and Wisconsin today. Some haze could return to the Northeast tomorrow but probably only at higher altitudes.

Third grade students, who were in kindergarten when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, have lost more ground in reading than older students and have been slower to catch up. AP journalists visited schools in GeorgiaNew York and Kansas to explain what’s going on. 

An analysis by the International Air Transport Association found a 47% spike in unruly passenger incidents from 2021 to 2022.

The average annual national cost of child care for one child in 2021 was $10,600 — more than one-third of a single parent's income, according to yesterday's report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. 

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