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Maura Healey

Healey hopes MIT forum will help shape data initiative

STATE HOUSE — Striking a balance between privacy and innovation will be the theme of a forum Thursday that Attorney General Maura Healey hopes will shape her office's work around the protection of consumer data. The forum, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a collaboration among Healey&

boston

Boston cites data for improving traffic flow, snow cleanup

BOSTON – City Hall cited data collection and analysis for significantly improving traffic flow in some congested areas and better snow cleanup in a report on its Citywide Analytics team. The team led more than a dozen projects citywide last year that aimed to engage citizens and improve daily government operations,

human trafficking

What you think you know about human trafficking is probably wrong

Washington D.C. (CNA/EWTN News) — Human trafficking. It's been called "modern-day slavery" and a "silent epidemic." It affects tens of millions every year and yet remains largely in the shadows – even within the United States. Much remains to be done in fighting the

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Gay men make up 2% of population, 67% of new HIV cases, CDC says

(CNSNews.com) – Although gay men, or men who have sex with men (MSM), make up about 2 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 67 percent of "all new HIV diagnoses," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition, there are about

terrorism

Muslim Americans involved in terrorism ‘rose dramatically’ in 2015

(RNS) — The number of Muslim Americans involved in terrorism cases "rose dramatically" in 2015, although the overall threat they posed to public safety has been exaggerated, says the author of a new terrorism study. "The demonization of Muslim Americans in some American social and political spheres has

government

Government workers accounted for 48.9% of union members in 2015

(CNSNews.com) — The percentage of American wage and salary workers who belonged to a union was only 11.1 percent in 2015, but the percentage of union members who worked for government was 48.9 percent, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. "The union

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Stanford economist: Globalization is erasing prosperity gap between rich, poor countries

(CNSNews.com) — New research by an economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution shows that globalization and industrial investment are increasing prosperity worldwide and lessening the economic gap between rich and poor countries. "Projecting these dynamics forward suggests rapid growth across all regions over the coming century that will

guns

GAO: 70% of firearms seized in Mexico came from USA

(CNSNews.com) – A new federal report reveals that 70 percent of the firearms seized by Mexican authorities between 2009 and 2014 originated in the United States. In addition, the report shows that the majority of those U.S.-originated guns were bought in California, Arizona, and Texas, southwest states that