Axios What's Next, our new weekday newsletter will be your guide to the waves of change in how we work, play and get around. This Axios AM Deep Dive gives you a taste of what we have in store...
👩💻 Companies need workers, but many employees aren't ready to go back to the way things used to be.
With an end to the pandemic in sight, American companies face a new challenge: getting workers back to work.
The new ways of living, working and playing that this era ushers in will put millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in play and change the way we live our lives.
🚊 Included in that change is how we get around — and many mass transit agencies are rethinking traditional fixed-route networks in favor of flexible, on-demand rides, often in underserved communities.
One way cities aim to lure back riders is by making mass transit more efficient, especially in light of increased private car usage since the pandemic.
"We finally have public transportation that is really making a difference." axios.com/flatlined-tran…
🌡New York City will harness data from thousands of internet-connected smart thermometers to identify future outbreaks days or even weeks before case numbers start rising.
🔎 INVESTIGATION: How America’s top hospitals hound patients with predatory billing axios.com/hospitals-pred…
Rising deductibles and out-of-pocket costs are increasingly leaving patients responsible for steep medical bills, Axios found in a joint investigation with Johns Hopkins University. axios.com/hospitals-pred…
🎈 Some of the hospitals with the highest revenue in the country also have some of the highest prices, charging an average of 10 times more than the actual cost of the care they deliver. axios.com/texas-pennsylv…
.@mikeallen to @SecBlinken: “Naftali Bennett, who's poised to be the ne xt prime minister of Israel, has said that he's opposed to a two-state solution. He says that based on security concerns it would be suicide for Israel. So what's the path?”
@mikeallen@SecBlinken .@mikeallen asks @SecBlinken if the intel he received convinced him that Hamas was in the Gaza building Israel destroyed that housed media offices.
Blinken: "I can't comment on it. But I do think from our own experience: the more transparency, the better."
Biden takes his "America is back" doctrine on the road this week — the biggest test yet of his belief that the U.S. can better confront adversaries by embracing allies, @DavidLawler10 writes.
🇷🇺 U.S.-Russia relations are at their lowest point since the fall of the Soviet Union ahead of Biden's summit with Putin in Geneva — the site of Reagan's first meeting with Gorbachev in 1985, @zacharybasu writes.
🇨🇳 Biden has embraced several of Trump's moves on China, and used them to persuade reluctant U.S. progressives and even some European leaders that a more muscular China policy is necessary, from @BethanyAllenEbr
@RussContreras@lisahopeking@RepKarenBass@TopekaKSam .@RepKarenBass: "The most important part of the [George Floyd Justice and Policing Act] is that the bill that holds officers accountable...As a country, we are tired and we are horrified in seeing videotape after videotape."
@RussContreras@lisahopeking@RepKarenBass@TopekaKSam .@RepKarenBass on protests in 2020 moving the needle: "Many of the provisions in the bill are not new. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have been fighting for these different provisions for decades. But public pressure led to us finally beginning to move."