The Washington Post

D.C. set to become first city in the U.S. to implement local child tax credit

D.C. is poised to become the first city in the nation to create a local child tax credit, a move that lawmakers say could be transformative for families living in poverty. The D.C. Council passed the ...
Morningstar

Willdan Wins $27 Million Contract to Redesign and Implement New York City Accelerator Program

Willdan Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WLDN) announced today that it has been awarded a $27 million, three-year contract with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice to redesign and ...
The Conversation

College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...
USA Today

They didn't want to have C-sections. A judge forced them to. | Opinion

Fetal personhood laws have been reaching new extremes in the post-Roe v. Wade era. A new ProPublica investigation shows just how far states are willing to go to invalidate pregnant people’s wishes in ...
The New York Times

A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared.

Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence. By Alexandra Alter For months, speculation has been building ...
Wired

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...
KSTP-TV

Walz appointee tasked with helping implement fraud prevention program tells House committee his work is coming to an end

Six weeks or so on the job, Minnesota’s Director of Program Integrity Tim O’Malley, on Monday morning, told the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight committee that his work was coming to ...
The New York Times

Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz.

Artificial intelligence is already being used to write romance novels, academic papers and software applications. But how does A.I. stack up against some of the world’s best human writers? Skeptics ...
WKYT

Kentucky lawmakers file bill to implement federal education tax credit program

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky lawmaker Rep. Kimberly Moser (R) who represents Kenton County, filed legislation Thursday to implement a federal education opportunity program that would allow the ...
Business Wire

AutoBase Chosen by TDOT to Implement Statewide Rural Service Patrol Program

Leading Traffic Incident Management Provider and subsidiary of Vehicle Management Solutions LLC to Provide Motorist Safety Services TINLEY PARK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vehicle Management Solutions LLC ...
Digital Journal

‘Overloading’ may have led to deadly Philippine ferry sinking

Rescuers assist survivors of the sunken ferry Trisha Kerstin 3 at a port in the Philippines' Basilan province last month - Copyright Governor Mujiv Hataman/AFP ...