Database Category: Quality of Life

In 2022, people will still ask you as a business leader, “What did you do during the pandemic to serve your community?” If you don’t have a good answer now, it’s not too late to find your purpose as a business in this pandemic and create business/nonprofit partnerships that will last beyond this pandemic crisis.

The news out of INRIX last week was not wholly unexpected. Just two months after hitting near-record lows, vehicle traffic in the US has already made up a majority of its pre-covid volume, with similar shifts being measured in several countries around the world. It might be tempting, given these developments, to think that the […]

Manteca’s elected leaders – in a bid to build a community that’s appealing to young professionals expected to shape the bulk of economic growth in the next 20 years – are asking millennials for advice.

Because restrictions related to Covid-19 are motivated by community-wide risk and apply to entire populations, legal protections focused on how much risk one person poses to others have little relevance. Moreover, because many restrictions apply to the government’s own institutions (e.g., parks and schools) or are imposed by private actors (e.g., employers), they avoid standard […]

California’s COVID-19 epicenter is Imperial County, an impoverished agricultural oasis with an unusual history.

As California recovers from the economic downturn, officials should be careful to avoid making the cost-of-living and affordability problem worse for residents.

COVID-19 has produced a seismic shift in thinking about working from home and healthier lifestyles, while seeing a stunning impact on our air quality.

In modern societies, human rest-activity rhythms and sleep result from the tensions 29 and dynamics between the conflicting poles of external social time (e.g., work hours and 30 leisure activities) and an individual’s internal biological time. A mismatch between the two 31 has been suggested to induce ‘social jetlag’ [SJL; 1] and ‘social sleep restriction’ […]

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