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The criminal punishment system allows no real path forward for healing.Restorative justice offers a better way.What do successful alternatives to policing, prosecution and prison actually look like?And how would they work?A group of Chicago's leading public safety, health and justice innovators gathered at the DePaul Art Museum last summer to provide much-needed clarity on these crucial questions.

Britain has endured the worst exports record of any member of the G7 besides Japan over the last decade, according to a new analysis that will raise pressure on the government to reconsider its post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.As most of the world's other major seven economies have rebounded from the pandemic, export growth has remained sluggish in the UK at a time when businesses trading with the EU faced extra red tape and costs as a result of the country leaving the bloc.

Rishi Sunak has pledged to make a robust defence of free trade on his visit to Washington DC, while indicating he will dodge any disagreement over Joe Biden's mass programme of green subsidies, labelled protectionist by some UK ministers.Speaking to reporters on his plane to the US on Tuesday, the prime minister also hinted that the UK's strength in areas such as offshore wind made it an ideal partner in the Biden administration's attempts to collaborate economically in the face of China.

Sir Keir Starmer has been admirably straightforward about his mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower.Blocking new oil and gas fields is a sine qua non to realise that ambition.The Labour leader even went to the lion's den of Davos earlier this year to give business leaders that message.But judging from the headlines over the past few days, you might be forgiven for thinking that Sir Keir had never uttered a word about his plans.

The UK will lead on limiting the dangers of artificial intelligence, Rishi Sunak has said, after calls from some tech experts and business leaders for a moratorium.Sunak said AI could bring benefits and prove transformative for society, but it had to be introduced safely and securely with guard rails in place.

Rishi Sunak has insisted Brexit is working by citing cheaper beer and sanitary products, as he claimed the economy was looking up and people's household incomes were hugely outperforming expectations.Despite consumers struggling with high inflation and the cost of living crisis, the prime minister claimed there were lots of signs that things are moving in the right direction with the economy.

Rishi Sunak should funnel billions of pounds into free childcare to help get more parents into work to tackle acute workforce shortages, according to Britain's leading business group.The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said the government urgently needed to announce extra funding and changes to childcare and early years support, arguing that a more accessible and affordable system was an immediate economic priority.

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They're simply the Best!Representatives from dozens of the top businesses in Brooklyn gathered on May 31 for the 2023 Best of Brooklyn party celebrate after being voted the most outstanding companies in the borough!

Local elected officials and business leaders gathered on Atlantic Avenue on Wednesday to celebrate the illumination of the thoroughfare's first-ever Ramadan holiday lights display.The lights stand as a gesture of unity with the longstanding Muslim and Arab community in the neighborhood, according to the Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is hopping across the pond for his first official visit to DC on Wednesday and Thursday.While Sunak will spend most of his two-day visit meeting with President Biden, Congress, and U.S. business leaders, the highlight of his trip may be at Nationals Park.The British leader will attend the game between the Nats and Arizona Diamondbacks Wednesday during U.K.-U.S. Friendship Day, an event at Nats Park featuring both countries' anthems, a flyover with pilots from the respective militaries, and some British-themed games.

In the days after November's midterm elections, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen was feeling upbeat about the fact that Democrats had performed better than expected and maintained control of the Senate.But as she traveled to the Group of 20 leaders summit in Indonesia that month, she said Republicans taking control of the House posed a new threat to the U.S. economy.

President Joe Biden is expected to meet Tuesday with congressional leaders on the debt ceiling limit following productive staff-level negotiations over the weekend, two sources familiar with the talks told CNN on Sunday, as the US barrels toward a deadline that could come as soon as June 1.Negotiators have been able to pinpoint some areas on which congressional staff and the White House can find common ground, including revising the permitting process, rescinding unspent Covid-19 relief funds and potentially cutting spending, the sources said.

Eighteen students who put a young Black man through a notorious fraternity hazing ritual at a prestigious university in Belgium, leading to his death and setting off a national debate about racism, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter on Friday and ordered to pay fines and perform community service.

Realtor.comThe historic Blaine Mansion has landed on the market as Washington, DC's most expensive home, with a price tag of $29,950,000.The majestic residence is a standout in many ways."It's the last freestanding Gilded Age mansion that presides at the gateway to Embassy Row," says listing agent Daniel Heider, with TTR Sotheby's International Realty.

Will Brandon Johnson bring back the light that flickered and died under his predecessor?On Monday, Johnson will replace the first Chicago mayor in modern times to make corruption fighting and good government a top priority.Lori Lightfoot won City Hall on the steam of her campaign motto, "Bring in the Light," by uplifting transparency and ethics in government.

Inside France is our weekly look at some of the news, talking points and gossip in France that you might not have heard about.It's published each Saturday and members can receive it directly to their inbox, by going to their newsletter preferences or adding their email to the sign-up box in this article.

Working from the office should be the default for employees, chancellor Jeremy Hunt told business leaders on Wednesday as he claimed that logging on from home could stifle creativity.He told the British Chambers of Commerce conference he believes the shift to home working during the Covid-19 pandemic is being reversed by firms.

The government's plan to house migrants at an RAF base instead of going ahead with a 300 million regeneration project is a massive missed opportunity and a backward step, residents and business leaders have said.Between 1,500 and 2,000 migrants will be housed at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, and more will be housed at other bases and private facilities across the country, immigration minister Robert Jenrick announced on Wednesday.

Many South African companies are now asking whether hybrid working is actually working as they step back and review their progress towards a new hybrid workplace.It is not always clear whether companies arrived at the right hybrid model that boosts individual productivity, team collaboration and organisational innovation.

The Princess of Wales has said employers have an important role in making it possible for parents to balance a successful working life with a nurturing home life for their children.Kate this week urged business leaders to prioritise wellbeing in the workplace to support family life as she launched her Business Taskforce for Early Childhood.

A Gift of Healing
Singer-songwriter Umi merged music and meditation in a December tour promoting her new album Forest in the City and donated $2 from every ticket to support WholeSchool Mindfulness, an organization that helps implement and fund the role of Mindfulness Directors in US schools."Growing up and being able to go to a school where I was taught mindfulness has very much influenced the person I am now," Umi says, "and I wish for more children to be gifted that healing."

Young people will get the option of studying job-friendly technical subjects instead of taking on debt to go to university under new plans by Andy Burnham.The Mayor of Greater Manchester wants to launch a Manchester Baccalaureate, or MBacc, to help the two-thirds of local students who do not go down the traditional academic route to get a degree.

The Podcast Show, the biggest international festival for the business of podcasting, is back for a second year.This one-of-a-kind event is open to industry professionals, independent podcast creators, business leaders, emerging talent and fans alike, and will see the podcast community gather at The Business Design Centre in Islington, London.

On a live radio show this prolific real estate exec, bashed 'selfish' young workers for not returning to work at offices after the pandemic.Nicole Duncan is the CEO and MD of Sydney based CR Commercial Property Group.She called in at the local commercial radio station and remarked that commuting is no excuse to avoid work from the office, rather stay at home.

There's a new term in the human resources world: resenteeism.It's a trend characterised by employees staying in jobs they find unsatisfying due to concerns over job security or limited alternatives.Resenteeism poses a significant obstacle to maintaining a motivated and productive workforce.Resenteeism explained
Rotacloud, the software company that first coined the term 'resenteeism', identified several societal changes and labour market shifts that led to the emergence of this trend:
Money worries:
When fears of another recession and soaring living costs are looming, employees might think twice before taking the plunge into the job market.

The advantages to the individual are obvious.From wearing a tee shirt to walking the dog, dumping the commute, and eating out of your own fridge it's pretty easy to create a list of very legitimate reasons remote work is awesome for the remote worker.It's a little harder to come up with a list of reasons that remote work is great for the team or the company.

Early-career engineers tend to do better when they show up in person, Mark Zuckerberg said.He cited Meta's "early analysis of performance data," but acknowledged it "requires further study."Zuckerberg broached the idea of in-person work in a note announcing new layoffs of 10,000 employees.

Rishi Sunak will fly to Japan to unveil a new defence and technology collaboration before seeking to galvanise support for Ukraine during talks with world leaders.The Prime Minister will join allies including the US's Joe Biden and France's Emmanuel Macron as the G7 group of industrialised democracies meets in Hiroshima.

The conflict in Ukraine will feature heavily as the Prime Minister embarks on a busy few days of diplomacy next week.Rishi Sunak is to travel to a Council of Europe summit in Iceland, before heading to Japan for a bilateral meeting in Tokyo and a G7 gathering in Hiroshima.Illegal migration and economic growth are also set to feature in the Prime Minister's discussions, as he promised to drive global action on our most pressing priorities.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to soon announce his bid for US president, failed to make a favourable impression on UK power players during an international trade mission this week, according to reports.The governor and his wife, after making stops in Israel, Japan and Korea, finished the trip in London, where he met with senior business figures at an event hosted by Lloyd's, the world's largest insurance marketplace and where attendees told Politico they found the politician's appearance to be lacklustre and even low-wattage.

Plans by Rishi Sunak's government to boost carbon capture technology and offshore wind have been dismissed dangerous lacklustre by climate campaigners.Chancellor Jeremy Hunt unveiled the scheme billed as the first step in a response to the US' multibillion-dollar investment in green technology with a swipe at Joe Biden.

The Princess of Wales has urged business leaders to prioritise wellbeing in the workplace to support family life as she launched a business taskforce on early childhood.Kate is hoping global firms who have joined her taskforce will be the catalyst for change and encourage firms across the country to train and help staff to maintain their social and emotional welfare, aiding their work and home life.

Britain's bonfire of European Union laws has been reduced to embers.The U.K. government on Wednesday scrapped a plan to remove all remaining EU laws, about 4,000 in all, from British statute books by the end of this year a post-Brexit goal that critics said was rash and unachievable.Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch said in a written statement that the government would instead draw up a list of about 600 specific laws that would be revoked.

Grant Shapps is set to announce a multi-billion pound investment in what the government has dubbed an "energy revolution", with a shift towards more affordable and clean power.In a major speech, the energy secretary will unveil a radical shift in the UK's energy system away from fossil fuels.

Brazil's president will seek to boost trade ties and secure greater Chinese investments during his visit to China next week.China has agreed to immediately resume imports of Brazilian beef, Brazil's agriculture ministry said, just days before President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to meet his Chinese counterpart in Beijing.

The GPT-4 language model is now available for ChatGPT Plus subscribers.Developers can join an API waitlist.For search engines and enterprise writing assistance, the top contender is OpenAI, which yesterday announced the latest model of its language model, GPT-4.GPT-4 is now available on ChatGPT Plus and as an API, for which developers can join a waitlist.

Tableau, a subsidiary of Salesforce, has launched new AI-powered capabilities to help make data more accessible to business users and improve support for data-driven decisions and analysis.The announcement comes a week after Salesforce revealed plans to add new generative AI functions to its CRM platform at its Trailblazer DX '23 developer conference.

In a margin-compressing environment, California mortgage tech firm Blend Labsis betting that its newly launched composable origination tech will help the firm recover from its financial losses.Available in its Blend Builder Platform, users can build their own origination products, leverage integrations, and use modular blocks to resolve the complexity of an existing technology infrastructure, the company said in an announcement about the launch on Tuesday.

Bryan Robinson, author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World.Michael Mauney/NYU Press When work is all consuming, it can exact a high price.This is not news to anyone who has grown up with work-obsessed parents or who loves their job so much that its become part of who they are.It's a familiar topic for Bryan E. Robinson, a psychotherapist in Ashville, N.C.

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol said California's business environment is slowing the company's ambitions for growth in the state."Unfortunately it's getting harder versus being easier," Niccol said on Bloomberg TV's California C-Suite special, examining the state's challenges.

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California air regulators have adopted two landmark rules setting aggressive zero-emission requirements for fleets of heavier vehicles and locomotives, a move expected to drastically cut pollution near ports and rail yards and alter the way goods move through the American West.

Acast, the world's largest independent podcast company,launched Audience Segments on its self-serve advertising platform.The new capability enables advertisers booking campaigns through the self-serve platform to target listeners based on Nielsen Audience Segments across Acast's more than 92,000 podcasts.

The Podcast Show, the biggest international festival for the business of podcasting, is back for a second year following the success of 2022's inaugural show.This one-of-a-kind event is open to industry professionals, independent podcast creators, business leaders, emerging talent and fans alike.The aim is to celebrate podcasting, support new creators, help shape the future of podcasting, and get business done.

Generative AI seems to be everywhere right now, but what do you actually need to know?HBR IdeaCast is cutting through the noise in the special series How Generative AI Changes Everything.How will this new technology upend workforce productivity?What impact will it have on creativity and innovation?How can you build an internal culture that uses generative artificial intelligence and adopt it effectively in your organization?

About 96% of remote companies use some kind of employee monitoring software, according to a survey.Three in four companies have fired employees over data from the monitoring software.More than two-thirds of the respondents said employees have quit, citing the surveillance.Companies still have trust issues about employee productivity, even three years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced workers to work remotely or in a hybrid setting.

By Brent Pearson How many human resources and business leaders are thinking seriously about how they're going to navigate the looming talent shortage?I would argue there are not nearly enough.Let's review the numbers.U.S. employers added more than 517,000 jobs in January 2023 (more than three times what was expected), with the unemployment rate at 3.4%, a 50-year low.

Even as most enterprises continue to race toward rapid data adoption, the reality on the ground appears to be different.A new global survey conducted by Salesforce has revealed that as many as 41% of business leaders see lack of understanding as a major barrier to unlocking the full potential of their data assets.

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Zenhub today announced it is adding an issue management module that makes it simpler for stakeholders to collaborate with developers on application development projects without having to log into a GitHub repository.Fresh from raising an additional $10 million in capital, Zenhub co-founder Aaron Upright said Zenhub Issues is a plug-in for a project management application the company developed for GitHub environments to better streamline software development life cycles.

HousingWire Annual kicks off on October 10, 2023.It will be here before you know it!As the conference quickly approaches, so does the deadline to lock in the exclusive room rate for Hyatt Lost Pines in Austin, Texas.Take advantage of staying on the property and being close to all the conference sessions and networking events.

The ChatGPT rival will draw from Google's vast library of information - but isn't ready for business yet.Google has opened up a wait list for Bard, its generative AI chatbot, the tech giant announced on Tuesday.Bard appears to be a direct competitor of ChatGPT and GPT-4, the generative AI from startup OpenAI, which Microsoft uses in its Bing Chat.

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Israeli protesters pressed ahead on Thursday with demonstrations against a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary, pushing back against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he rejected a compromise proposal that was meant to defuse the crisis.

AUSTIN, Texas U.S. House Reps.Michael McCaul (R-Austin) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) will participate in a roundtable discussion Monday on maximizing the Lone Star State's growth in the semiconductor industry.The roundtable will be hosted by the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and will cover key issues, including applying for CHIPS grants, workforce development and steps to ensure Texas and the U.S. maintain a leadership position in the industry.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Rishi Sunak has insisted he is taking the north seriously despite inflicting further delays to the HS2 rail project.The Prime Minister was facing criticism for delaying the construction of Birmingham to Crewe leg of the high speed services by two years.

The Democratic Unionist party (DUP) has withheld judgment on the deal to end the dispute over the post-Brexit Northern Ireland protocol, leaving the fate of power-sharing in the region hanging in the balance.Sir Jeffrey Donaldson welcomed significant progress in the UK-EU deal announced on Monday but cautioned that concerns remained and said the party would take time to analyse the text.

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Sir Keir Starmer has said he is not "talking down" Britain when warning that Poland is on course to overtake the UK within a decade in terms of the size of its economy per person.The Labour leader was launching details of his party's "mission" to make the UK the fastest growing G7 economy.

Marketers play a glass-half-full role in business.We're expected to see a product or service as it is and create a compelling, transformative message no matter the type of offering.It's a strategic process for connecting a target audience to the company's products and services.There's no sleight of hand.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Rishi Sunak is facing rebellion from a coalition of Conservative MPs over April's planned rise in corporation tax.The leaders of several backbench Tory factions have written to the prime minister to urge him to abandon his plan to hike the tax from 19 to 25 per cent ahead of the March Budget.

Toyota Motor, the world's biggest automaker, said on Wednesday it would accept a union demand for the biggest base salary increase in 20 years and a rise in bonus payments, as Japan steps up calls for businesses to hike pay.As one of Japan's biggest employers, Toyota (TM) has long served as a bellwether of the spring labor talks, which are in full swing at major companies.

The Democratic Unionist party has said any Northern Ireland protocol deal must meet its seven tests but they omit the one that really matters: the test of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's leadership.The seven conditions concern laws and trading rules, which have room for fudge and ambiguity.The choice facing Donaldson, in contrast, appears stark and binary: accept and sell the deal to unionism, paving the way for the restoration of power sharing.

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Rishi Sunak said his post-Brexit deal meant Northern Ireland was the world's most exciting economic zone with access to both EU and UK markets.