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AI 'digital workers' are cutting tasks that used to take a month down to 10 minutes in New Mexico. Employees love it.

Sun, 05/14/2023 - 07:37

Screenshot of New Mexico's — New Mexico is automating a number of processes and integrating AI into its workflows. The state's use of the emerging technologies could point the way to how AI will change workforces across the globe.
Courtesy of the New Mexico Human Services Department.

Tech Insider, AI, automation, Artifical Intelligence, ChatGPT, New Mexico, Hospitals

A perfect storm of food-stamp cuts and low tax refunds is looming — and discount chains like Dollar General and Big Lots could feel the pain

Fri, 03/17/2023 - 16:30

Woman pushes shopping cart down bread aisle at Big Lots store — A shopper passes through the bread aisle of a Big Lots store.
Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Retail, News, snap, Tax Refunds, low income, discount stores, Child tax credit

Millions of Americans are facing a hunger cliff as food stamps are slashed: 'The poorer you are, the poorer you eat'

Wed, 03/01/2023 - 05:00

Tech Insider : Economy

People line up for Thanksgiving food pantry distribution organized by Council of Peoples Organization in Brooklyn, New York on November 23, 2021. — People line up for Thanksgiving food pantry distribution organized by Council of Peoples Organization in Brooklyn, New York on November 23, 2021.
YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images

economy, Food Stamps, snap benefits, SNAP benefits cut, Poverty, Hunger, American hunger

Food banks, already struggling with high demand, are bracing themselves for an onslaught once emergency food stamps wind down: 'This is really, really going to hurt some of the most vulnerable populations'

Sun, 02/26/2023 - 08:00

Tech Insider : Economy

loading food at food bank — Walter Woods loads food for charity africActive at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Dec 1, 2022.
Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images

economy, snap benefits, SNAP benefits cut, Food Stamps, Food Bank, food banks, Hunger

Republicans want to restore 'dignity' for millions of Americans on food stamps by cutting their benefits even more

Thu, 02/16/2023 - 13:53

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics

Brooklyn food pantry coronavirus — People line up outside a food pantry in Brooklyn, New York, United States, on Nov. 12, 2020.
Michael Nagle/Wang Ying/Xinhua/Getty Images

economy, politics, Food Stamps, snap benefits, Food Pantry, SNAP benefits cut, GOP

Meet a Gen Xer forced to cut $135 from her monthly grocery budget as emergency food stamps suddenly end in March: 'We don't know how we're going to make it'

Thu, 02/16/2023 - 08:58

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics

women checking receipt at grocery store — LordHenriVoton/Getty Images

economy, politics, snap benefits, Food Stamps, pandemic economy, SNAP benefits cut, snap

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