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Alabama
Birmingham: A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the creator of a popular website for tracking COVID-19 in the state is pondering what will become of his creation once the health care crisis eases. David Marconnet told WBHM he sees two options for his Bama Tracker site, which has been visited by at least 1.5 million people so far and presents publicly available data about the virus in easily accessible, understandable charts and graphs. Bama Tracker could remain online as an archive for researchers or anyone who wants to look through pandemic data, said Marconnet, or it could adapt to track other data that Alabamians find interesting. “I’ve been playing with some ideas there, and I’ve had some struggles figuring out what people would care about,” Marconnet said. “I don’t have an answer there. We’ll just sort of see.” The software developer from Huntsville didn’t have any idea what his side project would become when
Reynolds touts state as teleworking destination in IWD podcast Wednesday, March 17, 2021 10:52 AM
Des Moines Register: Appearing as the inaugural guest for Iowa Workforce Development s new Mission Employable podcast Tuesday, Gov. Kim Reynolds told the host and agency Deputy Director Ryan West that the state kept 80% of its economy up and going during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also said she hopes Iowa will attract teleworkers looking for a low cost of living, low crime rates and a state that has required most schools to keep their classrooms open.
Des Moines Register
Appearing as the inaugural guest for Iowa Workforce Development s new Mission Employable podcast Tuesday, Gov. Kim Reynolds told the host and agency Deputy Director Ryan West that the state kept 80% of its economy up and going during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She also said she hopes Iowa will attract teleworkers looking for a low cost of living, low crime rates and a state that has required most schools to keep their classrooms open.
Meanwhile, U.S. News & World Report recently ranked Iowa as the best state in the nation for opportunity, using a mix of data such as cost of living, housing prices, income inequality, median household income, poverty rates, food insecurity rates and racial inequality in education rates.
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