All about risk
Link: https://marypatcampbell.substack.com/p/mortality-with-meep-total-us-excess-58f
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Author: Mary Pat Campbell
Publication Date: 28 January 2021
Publication Site: STUMP
List: https://marypatcampbell.substack.com/p/mortality-with-meep-us-excess-mortality
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Author: Mary Pat Campbell
Publication Date: 26 January 2021
Publication Site: STUMP
Excerpt:
With a perfect storm of aging residents, low birth rates, COVID-19 deaths and immigration cutbacks, 16 states saw population decreases last year as the United States experienced the slowest national population growth since the Great Depression.
The nation grew only about 7% between 2010 and 2020, similar to the previous historic low between 1930 and 1940, according to new Census Bureau estimates, which do not reflect the 2020 census counts. The agency will release the final 2020 census tally in March.
Author: Tim Henderson
Publication Date: 21 January 2021
Publication Site: Pew
Link: https://www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/financial-state-of-the-cities-2021
Excerpt:
Truth in Accounting has released its fifth annual Financial State of the Cities report. This comprehensive analysis surveys the fiscal health of the 75 most populated US cities prior to the coronavirus pandemic. The report found that 62 cities did not have enough money to pay all of their bills. Most of the cities were ill-prepared for any crisis, much less one as serious as what we are currently facing. Total debt among the 75 cities amounted to $333.5 billion at the end of the fiscal year 2019, which will only worsen as the cities face varying and unpredictable effects from the global pandemic.
PDF of full report: https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/Financial-State-of-the-Cities-2021.pdf#new_tab
Publication Date: 26 January 2021
Publication Site: Truth in Accounting
Link: https://www.pionline.com/washington/investors-ready-change-democrats-take-control
Excerpt:
While the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact present the most pressing challenges, Democratic control of Congress and the White House could also spur action on issues ranging from climate change to scrutiny of private equity practices.
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Mr. Neal’s first bill introduced in the new 117th Congress addresses the multiemployer pension crisis that he said “has only worsened” in the COVID-19 economic downturn. A similar proposal was introduced by members of the House Education and Labor Committee, whose chairman, Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, D-Va., said the pandemic could cause as many as 180 more multiemployer plans to become insolvent, adding up to 300 plans facing failure. Both leaders are urging that the proposed Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act of 2021 be attached to a COVID-19 relief measure now before Congress.
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Potential legislation is expected to build on the panel’s climate action plan calling for clean energy tax credits and jobs initiatives, investments in water infrastructure and research into land and ocean climate solutions, among other ideas.
Author: Hazel Bradford
Publication Date: 25 January 2021
Publication Site: Pensions & Investments
Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-is-speeding-up-how-deaths-are-recorded-11611397800
Excerpt:
When governments realized death tolls were too low, they revamped the way they counted them
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Weeks after the virus hit Italy last year, doctors, funeral homes and officials realized that government Covid-19 death tolls were too low and many victims weren’t getting included. Informal tallies quickly revealed that thousands of deaths most likely caused by the virus had been omitted. Limited testing left the number of infections unknown, and many people had died outside hospitals, which were the initial source of fatality figures.
Italy’s statistical agency, Istat, scrambled to assemble more reliable information, collecting data from towns and cities faster than ever before. In May, it revealed what people at the front lines had suspected: a 39% jump in nationwide deaths between Feb. 21 and March 31 compared with previous years.
“Normally, they [the data] would have arrived six months later,” said Istat President Gian Carlo Blangiardo in May. “We made an extraordinary effort.”
Author: Daniel Michaels
Publication Date: 23 January 2021
Publication Site: WSJ
Excerpt:
2020 has been a killer year in every way, including murder. The United States has experienced the largest single one-year increase in homicides since the country started keeping such records in the 20th century, according to crime data and criminologists.
The grim body count isn’t quite over yet, but the data collected so far is stark — a 20.9 percent increase in killings nationwide, in the first nine months of the year, according to the FBI, and even bloodier increases in many major cities, due largely to gun violence.
Author: Devlin Barrett
Publication Date: 30 December 2020
Publication Site: Washington Post
Link: https://www.vox.com/2020/8/3/21334149/murders-crime-shootings-protests-riots-trump-biden
Excerpt:
A new report, by the Council on Criminal Justice, found homicides have increased sharply this year across 21 US cities with relevant data: “Homicide rates increased by 42% during the summer and 34% in the fall over the summer and fall of 2019.” Other data, from crime analyst Jeff Asher, found murder is up 36 percent throughout the year so far, compared to the same period in 2019, in a sample of 51 US cities. A preliminary FBI report also found murders up 15 percent nationwide in the first half of 2020.
Author: German Lopez
Publication Date: 2 December 2020
Publication Site: Vox
Excerpt:
President will add community vaccination sites, deploy mobile units and enlist pharmacies to achieve his pledge that 100 million doses will be administered in U.S. during his first 100 days in office
President Joe Biden has promised a more forceful U.S. government response to the coronavirus pandemic, and on his second day in office released a national strategy and signed 10 executive orders and other directives as part of the plan.
Authors: Betsy McKay and Sabrina Siddiqui
Publication Date: 21 January 2021
Publication Site: WSJ
Link: https://www.ai-cio.com/news/biden-logs-best-market-showing-election-inauguration/
Description: Comparing U.S. presidents by stock market performance from election day to inauguration day. They noted that President Herbert Hoover did well on this metric.
Author: Larry Light
Publication Date: 22 January 2021
Publication Site: ai-CIO
Link: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/covid-19-mortality-data-files.htm
Description: List of publicly available mortality data sets for the U.S. from the CDC, related to excess mortality starting in 2020 as well as COVID-specific mortality. A few data sets are updated on weekdays, but others are updated weekly on Wednesdays (usually). A few ad hoc data sets from specific dates are at the end.
Publication Frequency: Weekly for most data sets
Publication Site: CDC
Link: https://www.soa.org/resources/research-reports/2020/visualizations-of-covid-19/
Sublinks: [Tableau dashboards]
Publication Site: SOA