From the pandemic’s evolving impact to working conditions; former President Trump's 2024 announcement to inflation concerns; and housing design to video games.
Here are Axios’ top stories from 2022 that provide some insight for what's to come in 2023.
🪧 There were 374 worker strikes started in 2022 — a 39% increase over 2021.
Fueled partly by anger over working conditions in the pandemic and spurred on by other labor wins, all sorts of workers walked off the job.
📢 When former President Trump announced his 2024 presidential run in mid-November, his delivery was so restrained, even languid, that it was widely derided as "low energy."
@danprimack@imkialikethecar@SapphireVC@jai_das@NYSE Michael Harris on investor focus: "I think profits are one part of it...I think it's more about being able to talk to the marketplace about visibility into their operations and the ability to actually demonstrate that over a very uncertain business cycle their model can hold up."
@danprimack@imkialikethecar@SapphireVC@jai_das@NYSE .@jai_das On whether PE firms will be active in startups: "I do think that they will kind of retreat from trying to do more venture kind of investments and really focus on doing what they know really well which is take companies private or take late-stage companies and own them."
@TreedinDC@caitlinnowens@RepRobinKelly@WhiteHouse@RepGuthrie .@RepRobinKelly on the top health care policy priorities for early 2023: "I think we still have to work on making sure that everyone has health care, and that there is access, and there's still work to be done around how much it costs, so I think working around those issues."
.@GroIntel Founder & CEO @SaraMenker says the private sector can help tackle global food insecurity "by driving investment into the right areas. But you need enabling policy ... and stable policy environments to allow for private industry to step up."
.@GroIntel Founder & CEO @SaraMenker says she continues to worry about high global food prices heading into 2023:
"You're looking at places like Syria who've had 700+ percent increases in the price of food over the last 2.5 years."
JUST IN: House passes bill to avert rail strike trib.al/2fndmvu
One of the two measures passed today includes 7 paid sick days for railroad employees — a key sticking point for workers, lobby members and progressive lawmakers. trib.al/2fndmvu
The legislation now heads to the Senate, where time is ticking before Dec. 9 — the earliest date railway workers could strike if an agreement isn't reached. trib.al/2fndmvu
New details have emerged from the recent shooting at a Walmart store in Chesapeake, Virginia including the names and identities of the six fatal victims. trib.al/hEXL1fw
Randall Blevins was a 70-year-old coin collector and father. Fellow employees said that Blevins was a kind person, NPR reports.
“There wasn’t any way anybody could have had a grudge against him,” his cousin, Virgil Wimmer, told the Washington Post. axios.com/2022/11/26/wal…
Lorenzo Gamble was a 43-year-old father who was always spending time with his two sons — in addition to rooting for the Washington Commanders, according to the Post. axios.com/2022/11/26/wal…