Public health emerges as top concern for Houston-area residents
Eighty-five percent of the survey participants said the government should do more to solve the country s problems. Author: KHOU 11 Staff Updated: 6:51 PM CDT May 11, 2021
HOUSTON Public health concerns, an issue that rarely registered on previous surveys, emerged as the top issue facing Houstonians in 2021, according to the new Kinder Houston Area Survey.
The 40th annual survey was released Tuesday during the Kinder Institute’s “Lunch-Out” virtual event.
According to the survey, 25% of respondents mentioned the pandemic or health-related issues. Twenty percent of those surveyed said the economy was the biggest problem, up from 13% last year. Only 14% cited crime, and traffic dropped to 13%, down from 30% last year.
Gill Cardy: Do you really know what your client needs from you?
By Gill Cardy 11
th May 2021 2:20 pm
I have participated in a couple of training sessions lately which have made me think more about the advice process.
The Kinder Institute Evoke training encourages us to open the client conversation by asking, “what brings you here today?”. We are discouraged from asking more questions or interrupting, especially in the early stages, instead giving clients clear permission to say what is uppermost in their minds and then to follow their agenda.
There is an evidenced physiological reason for this, quite apart from the usual benefits, such as “clients will pay higher fees”.
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For the first time in the state s history, California will be losing a Congressional seat, according to the 2020 Census data released late last month, which Spencer reported on. The news from Friday now looks to California s own data, from the California Department of Finance, which estimated the state lost 0.46 percent of its population last year.
The population loss is the first the state has measured as an annual decline in the decades it has been tracking annual population data. In 2019, state demographers had estimated a population increase of 0.2 percent, or 87,494 people.
But in 2020, California saw a net loss of 182,083 people and a net exodus of 310,918 people.