By Krisztina Pusok, American Consumer Institute With the economy still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, there are growing calls to ease competition in the labor market by restricting immigration. But these policies overlook the fact that highly educated foreign graduates from U.S. universities act as a stopgap for a shortage of American STEM graduates. Before taking […]
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NHS wields social influence to bolster health
In the British Medical Journal, Mike Simmons makes the case for using complexity science to improve group performance. To reduce the risk of hospital-borne infections in the NHS, Mike’s group used storytelling and emotional narratives based on the lives of real patients to nudge health workers to improve behaviors—like hand washing—that reduce infections. […]