RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The U.S. Department of Labor reported last week that nationwide unemployment has now hit the lowest point since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. Around 498,000 Americans filed unemployment claims in the last week of April, down by 92,000 from the previous week. North Carolina saw new claims drop by about 3,440 in the same period.
But that doesn’t mean the pandemic recession is over. North Carolina is still tens of thousands of jobs short of where the state was in March 2020.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ newly released April jobs report shows a significant decline in hiring. According to the report, U.S. businesses added 266,000 new jobs in April, a notable drop from March’s revised total of 770,000. April’s unemployment rate remains at 6.1%, a tiny change from 6% in March.
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Commercialization of sci-tech gathering pace By Zhang Yangfei | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-04-15 14:41 Share [Photo/IC]
China recently released the annual report on the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements in 2020, showing continuous vibrant activities in the transformation of scientific and technological results.
The report indicates that 3,450 universities and academic institutes across the country signed 15,035 contracts in 2019, an increase of 32.3 percent compared with that in 2018, with a total trading volume of 15.24 billion yuan.
Despite the rise in the number of deals, the number of high-value contracts worth more than 100 million yuan dropped to 24 by 20 percent, the report said.
Han Jun, deputy chief evaluator of the National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation, said from 2016 to 2019, China saw a surge in the transformation of scientific results following the release of p
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