49ers QB Brock Purdy, DE Nick Bosa out, Brandon Allen to start at Green BayTikTok is inching closer to a potential ban in the US. So what's next?Now on the App Store, it's the first wallet of its kind. Singapore, Dec. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OPZ , an innovative blockchain platform that merges advanced AI with cutting-edge security solutions, proudly announces its official launch on the App Store, introducing the world's first AI-powered crypto wallet. This milestone follows OPZ's groundbreaking integration of Binance-backed GoPlus Security's Web3 security APIs. AI-Powered Trading with OPZ-AI: The Future of Crypto is Here Staying ahead in the volatile crypto market requires real-time insights, dynamic strategies, and actionable intelligence. OPZ meets this demand head-on with OPZ-AI, an advanced AI-driven trading engine designed to automate personalized trading strategies. By leveraging deep neural networks and user-specific customization, OPZ-AI delivers sophisticated analysis tailored to individual preferences, ensuring that users no longer need to rely solely on manual research and guesswork. The OPZ app's intuitive dashboard grants users unmatched access to market data and community-driven innovation: With its App Store debut, OPZ cements its position as a trusted leader in the crypto space. By merging AI-driven insights with top-tier security protocols, OPZ ensures users can confidently trade, transfer, and explore the decentralized ecosystem. Its unwavering commitment to continual innovation paves the way for the future of decentralized finance (DeFi). About OPZ OPZ is an innovative platform that combines blockchain technology with advanced AI to take cryptocurrency trading and asset management into the future. It promotes self-ownership of digital assets through its native token, AI-powered trading, a decentralized exchange, and a secure wallet, empowering users in the evolving cryptocurrency landscape. CONTACT: Chris Wong OPZ LLC chris.wong(at)opz.com

Cos has taken an impressive journey over its 17 years. Starting as a supplier of low-key, well-designed clothes for your everyday wardrobe, Cos now shows its collections within the schedule of New York Fashion Week . Cos now makes much more than basic cotton tees, boasting a range full of impeccable outerwear and leather goods – often for drastically smaller costs than their luxury counterparts on the catwalk. Cos' output is used to getting high-end comparisons, with The Row, Celine and Our Legacy all sharing similar DNA with the sister brand of high street behemoth, H&M. Silhouette forms the backbone of why Cos is such a popular brand – not shying away from more daring shapes and trending silhouettes. Cos was one of the first high street brands to embrace the resurgence of wider-legged trousers and denim, and it now seems to be building on its well-developed reputation. The Cos Atelier collection, for example, showcases the brand’s ability to offer genuinely luxurious pieces of clothing (such as a £650 shearling-lined leather jacket), alongside its mainstay, affordable collection. Whether you’re needing some foolproof wardrobe essentials, looking to up your knitwear game, or want to invest a bit more money into a jacket this year – and want to go with a brand you’ve been able to trust for a long time – Cos certainly has you covered. And to save you the endless search through its very well-stocked collections, we’ve spent some time pulling together our choices for what Cos has to offer. Of the moment knitwear: Boiled-Cashmere Crew-Neck Cardigan , £200 Effortlessly good overcoat: Double-Faced Wool Coat , £250 A tee to feel good in every day: Oversized Cotton T-Shirt , £20 Normcore shirting that's far from boring: Wide Oversized Cotton Oxford Shirt , £75 The best '90s looking jeans: Rider Wide-Leg Jeans , £95 Modern-day suiting for modern day situations: Relaxed Double-Breasted Wool Blazer , £225 Finishing touches: Ribbed Alpaca-Blend Beanie , £35 One of Cos' most impressive categories is its knitwear – from simple crew neck sweaters to loud, patterned cardigans and polos, you’ll be hard-pressed to find something that wouldn’t fit into your autumn wardrobe. Sleek merino wool gives ample options for smarter-leaning requirements, and fuzzy mohair delivers on Marni-adjacent statements. There’s something for everything in between those ends of the spectrum, too. One thing Cos really has going for it is a focus on sustainable fabrication, and that focus really shines in its knitwear. Organic cotton, recycled fibres and responsibly-sourced wool are utilised all throughout the collection, ensuring that you get a good conscience to go along with your new jumper. If there’s one staple to get right when the weather gets colder, it’s nailing your outerwear choice (or choices, if you really can’t settle on just one). With Cos, you’re kind of spoilt for choice. There’s the usual fare of simple, solid overcoats in versatile colours that can be the hardworking final layer you need in the bleak winter months, along with coat-of-the-moment styles like leather-collared field jackets that can work in a cross-seasonal capacity and bring a bit of elevated workwear to your wardrobe. Then come the big hitters, the leathers, shearlings and punchier overcoats that showcase Cos' ability to really come out swinging with outerwear that competes with luxury brands' output. Any high street brand knows the power of being able to supply shoppers with a version of the ‘ perfect tee ’. A seemingly unending search that has people stepping up to bat for their preferred most essential of essentials. Cos is no different; it has a very good selection of base layers, that are available in a 3-pack for £55, or £18 per tee, which puts them a touch above the price of the Uniqlo Airism Cotton t-shirt, oft-cited as the ‘best tee’. Where Cos excels over its competition is the expanded range of cotton tees and vests it has to offer. Slim fit to oversized, printed or textured, colourful and bold to subtle and versatile, Cos does it all and does it well. The Regular Lightweight Brushed Cotton T-Shirt is a particular highlight, available in 12 colours, it’s hard to see how you could ever need to go elsewhere for your tee needs. Menswear is on a bit of a swing back to a slightly more grown-up attitude. While hoodies ’n’ tees will always have a place in your wardrobe, there is a distinct appetite for the classics these days. Shirting is something that can easily be neglected as a bit stuffy or overly foral, but Cos' prodigious collection is sure to have something that will float your boat. Revamps of classic styles, such as wider-cut oxford shirts and overshirts in a cosier boiled wool fabrication, are a great place to start if you want something a bit more contemporary. More tried and tested smarter styles are available in a slim fitting cotton poplin for those who need something to up their office wear game, and Cos will also, on occasion, deliver a shirt that is tricked out in some way, like having vintage-feeling 1950’s-inspired patch pockets or a drawstring at the waist. Not to mention the wide array of printed styles in short and long sleeves available, so you’re covered no matter the time of year. Is £100 for a pair of jeans expensive? There’s two ways to look at it really – yes, anything over £100 is an investment for most of us, but it's always worth considering how often you’ll need to replace the item in the long run. A bit of upfront cost to get something that will need replacing far less is often a better move than going for a cheaper pair you’ll need to replace time and time again. This approach is definitely worth considering for Cos' denim selection – most of which floats around the £100 mark, and offers any silhouette and wash you could want, really. We’re particular fans of the Dome Straight Leg jeans; they’re a really solid option for the baggier place that menswear finds itself in at the moment, without going overboard – more of a true homage to the silhouettes of the ‘90s. Whether you’re looking for a slimmer pair or want to go all out on the barrel leg or wider shapes, you really are catered for at Cos. A suit can be the most comfortable and flattering thing you can own, if you get the right one. Outside of going down the bespoke route – which gets staggeringly good results, but can be massively cost prohibitive – your best option is to shop ‘off the rack’. A basic suit can be easy to find at most high street shops as, for a lot of us, tailoring forms the backbone of what we have to wear daily. Finding a slightly more interesting or exciting style of suit that won’t cost an arm and leg can be trickier, however. This is where Cos can really be a helpful place to shop. You’ll be able to find suiting that is a touch more playful or trend-driven, such as a double breasted and flared-leg style that looks straight out of Harry Style’s wardrobe ( or Lennon Gallagher's, for that matter ), for sub £400, under the same roof as more traditional options like a regular-fitting twill suit that is perfect for a non-stuffy office wardrobe rotation. Cos runs the gamut in between, too, for weddings, more casual suiting and anything that requires a bit of a sartorial serve. So, you’ve successfully bought a whole new wardrobe of Cos clothes and are feeling good. Great stuff – but do you feel like you’re missing some of the little finishing touches? Don’t feel like you need to look elsewhere just yet, Cos also has your back with any and all accessorising needs. Cashmere scarves? Yep. Elegant small leather goods? Of course. Bags? Absolutely. Like any supplier of good garms, Cos also makes sure to lure you in with some really great everyday accessories that are hard to turn down. The selection of bags on offer is really something to pay attention to, whether you veer more on the nylon cross body bag side of things, or need a ludicrously capacious bag for your commute, the options all fall into a really low-key but well-designed category that is surprisingly affordable. Same goes for Cos' leather goods – a solid array of options that are a great place to look if you’re looking at upgrading from a well-worn wallet.

BEIJING , Nov. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from chinadaily.com.cn : Representatives discuss hot topics faced by countries in digitalization China's forward-looking vision on the future development of the internet offers a glimpse into how cooperation can narrow the digital divide across the world, at a time when an economic slowdown and impeded globalization have stunted growth worldwide, said government officials and industry experts on Friday. They made the remarks at the 2024 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit that ended in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province on Friday. They also sought more global cooperation to advance the development of the internet in less-developed economies and enhance digital competence for all. Ren Xianliang, secretary-general of the WIC, said at a news conference, "More efforts should be made to help make the internet a new frontier for all parties to cooperate and continue to create more convergence of interests, growth points of cooperation and new highlights of win-win scenarios in cyberspace." "All parties around the world are expected to join hands to build a cyber world where human beings coexist, jointly create a digital future of win-win cooperation and make cyberspace better for all peoples of the world," he said. More than 1,800 representatives from governments, international organizations, industry associations, internet enterprises, universities and think tanks from over 130 countries and regions attended this year's summit, addressing some of the hottest topics faced by countries in digitalization. Teo Nie Ching , deputy minister of communications of Malaysia , said at the conference that digital transformation is not solely about technological advancement, but also a reflection of human values and actions. "As technology progresses, we must uphold a core principle of people-centered and holistic development to ensure that technological applications truly serve the common good and promote share to the progress," Teo said. A United Nations report found that 2.6 billion individuals globally still lack internet access and a sharp digital divide can also be observed among economies, among industries and between urban and rural areas. Although many less technologically advanced regions, such as Africa , possess a strong willingness to build an inclusive and equitable digital world, the rapid advancement of technologies often poses a huge challenge to developing countries — how to actively participate and keep pace with this growth, said Nii Narku Quaynor , chairman of Ghana Dot Com. Against this backdrop, reinforcing open access to internet channels, digital content and technologies can greatly benefit emerging economies in the digital world, he said. Eyeing a higher-level of inclusiveness, connectivity and cooperation in the internet sector, a statement on global digital cooperation was released by a sub-forum of the WIC. The statement highlighted the importance of advancing international cooperation on data exchange, enhancing cross-border data connectivity, and narrowing gaps in data circulation, as well as more initiatives to build an open and mutually beneficial international framework for data collaboration. Intensified efforts should also be made to deepen international exchanges on technology standards, ethical guidelines and legal frameworks, advancing a widely accepted global AI governance system, said the statement. It also called for human-centered and ethically sound approaches to cutting-edge technologies such as AI, encouraging safe, reliable, fair and transparent research and development as well as applications of AI. At the opening ceremony of WIC, Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang also stressed the need for the international community to jointly deal with problems such as the digital divide and a grave cybersecurity situation to build a better digital future. The digital divide continues to widen, and the situation of cybersecurity has become more severe, Ding said, adding that the international community is in greater need than ever of jointly advancing a community with a shared future in cyberspace. China has been sharing the opportunities of modernization with countries around the world and injecting strong impetus into global modernization, Ding said. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/china-set-to-narrow-digital-divide-302314740.html SOURCE chinadaily.com.cnNew on Hulu November 23-29: our expert's picks for 7 TV shows and movies coming to Hulu this week

1 2 3 Kolkata: Online violence against women was cited as one of the "upcoming" threats against the dignity and safety of women by Amrita Dasgupta of NGO Swayam during a discussion organised by the Bengal Obstetric and Gynaecology Society (BOGS). In response to the question of moderator Dr Jaita Chakrabarti's question — if there was a change in how violence against women takes place in their respective fields of expertise — Dasgupta stressed the use of technology on social media platforms to threaten women. Morphing of women's images and using it for " revenge porn " was one of the examples cited by Dasgupta as means used by predators to cause harm. A report published by the United Nations Women in 2022 stated that the prevalence of online and technology-facilitated violence against women and girls ranges from 16% to 58% across the globe. According to the report, such acts of violence include sexual harassment, stalking and zoom bombing, which is the practice of disrupting a video-conference call and showing "racially charged or sexually explicit material to the unexpecting participants". A human rights practitioner at Calcutta High Court, Mrinalini Majumdar, highlighted the need for a legislative mechanism to manage an individual's behaviour on social media platforms.

Geoffrey Hinton says he doesn’t regret the work he did that laid the foundations of artificial intelligence, but wishes he thought of safety sooner. The British-Canadian computer scientist often called the godfather of AI said over the weekend that he doesn’t have any guilty regret, which he said is when someone has done something when they know they shouldn’t have at the time. “In the same circumstances, I would do the same again,” he said of his research, which dates back to the 1980s and has formed the underpinnings of AI. “However, I think it might have been unfortunate in that we’re going to get superintelligence faster than I thought, and I wish I’d thought about safety earlier.” Superintelligence surpasses the abilities of even the smartest humans. Hinton thinks it could arrive in the next five to 20 years and humanity may have to “worry seriously about how we stay in control.” Hinton made his prediction during a press conference in Stockholm, where he is due to a receive the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday. Hinton, a University of Toronto professor emeritus, and co-laureate John Hopfield, a Princeton University professor, are being given the prize because they developed some of the foundations of machine learning, a computer science that helps AI mimic how humans learn. Hinton kicked off his Nobel week on Saturday with the press conference, where he appeared with laureates in chemistry and economics and was asked about AI safety and regulation. Hinton left a job at Google last year to speak more freely about the technology’s dangers, which he has said could include job losses, bias and discrimination, echo chambers, fake news, battle robots and even the end of humanity. On Saturday, he said he considers lethal autonomous weapons to be a short-term danger. “There isn’t going to be any regulation there,” he said, pointing out that European regulations have a specific clause exempting military use of AI from restrictions. “Governments are unwilling to regulate themselves, when it comes to lethal autonomous weapon, and there is an arms race going on between all the major arms suppliers like the United States, China, Russia, Britain, Israel and possibly even Sweden, though I don’t know.” A day later, Hinton put his concerns about AI aside to deliver a lecture with Hopfield explaining the research that earned them their Nobel. “Today I am going to do something very foolish.” Hinton said in introducing his portion of the pair’s hour-long speech. “I am going to try and describe a complicated technical idea for a general audience without using any equations.” The audience chuckled. The talk began with Hopfield describing a network he invented that could store and reconstruct images in data. It led Hinton to later create the Boltzmann machine, which learns from examples, rather than instructions, and when trained, can recognize familiar characteristics in information, even if it has not seen that data before. Hinton said students in his lab and others run by fellow AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun were using Boltzmann machines to pre-train neural networks — machine learning models that make decisions in a manner similar to the human brain — between 2006 and 2011. By 2009, two of Hinton’s students had showed the technique “worked a little bit better than the best existing techniques for recognizing fragments of phonemes in speech and that then changed the speech recognition community,” Hinton said. Phonemes are small units of sound that can change the meaning of a word. Google later began working on technology based on Hinton’s discoveries and “suddenly the speech recognition on the Android got a lot better.” Even though the kind of Boltzmann machines Hinton was working with back then are no longer used in the same ways as he used them, he said “they allowed us to make the transition from thinking that deep neural networks would never work to seeing that deep neural networks actually could be made to work.” Nobel Week will continue Monday with a discussion about the future of health before an awards ceremony and banquet is held Tuesday. Hinton has said he will donate a portion of the prize money — equivalent to about C$1.45 million — he and Hopfield will be given to Water First, which is working to boost Indigenous access to water, and a charity supporting neurodiverse young adults. He is also reportedly due to donate an early Boltzmann chip to the Nobel Prize Museum. The Nobel is not the only prize Hinton scooped up this month. On Friday, he, Bengio, LeCun, Chinese-American computer scientist Fei-Fei Li and Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, were awarded the Vin Future Prize, a US$3 million prize for science breakthroughs in a ceremony in Vietnam. Hinton, Bengio and LeCun previously won the A.M. Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computing, together in 2018. This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Dec. 8, 2024. Tara Deschamps, The Canadian PressChance to play in front of family under new staff leads Illinois transfer DB to North Texas

Pathstone Holdings LLC lessened its holdings in shares of Tyler Technologies, Inc. ( NYSE:TYL – Free Report ) by 0.4% during the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 9,841 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 38 shares during the quarter. Pathstone Holdings LLC’s holdings in Tyler Technologies were worth $5,744,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in TYL. APG Asset Management N.V. raised its stake in Tyler Technologies by 1.4% during the 2nd quarter. APG Asset Management N.V. now owns 1,507,062 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $706,994,000 after acquiring an additional 20,842 shares in the last quarter. Janus Henderson Group PLC raised its stake in shares of Tyler Technologies by 15.3% during the first quarter. Janus Henderson Group PLC now owns 532,935 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $226,501,000 after purchasing an additional 70,801 shares in the last quarter. Swedbank AB acquired a new stake in Tyler Technologies in the second quarter worth about $251,390,000. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD grew its position in Tyler Technologies by 18.3% in the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 424,982 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $180,622,000 after buying an additional 65,814 shares in the last quarter. Finally, International Assets Investment Management LLC increased its stake in Tyler Technologies by 252,047.5% during the 3rd quarter. International Assets Investment Management LLC now owns 307,620 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $179,564,000 after buying an additional 307,498 shares during the period. 93.30% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on TYL. Evercore ISI raised shares of Tyler Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, July 26th. JMP Securities lifted their price target on Tyler Technologies from $580.00 to $700.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, October 25th. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $627.00 price objective on shares of Tyler Technologies in a report on Friday, September 13th. Needham & Company LLC lifted their target price on Tyler Technologies from $600.00 to $700.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 22nd. Finally, BTIG Research upped their price target on shares of Tyler Technologies from $550.00 to $630.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, July 26th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twelve have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Tyler Technologies currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $642.62. Tyler Technologies Stock Performance Tyler Technologies stock opened at $609.09 on Friday. Tyler Technologies, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $397.80 and a fifty-two week high of $631.43. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $594.68 and its 200-day simple moving average is $550.24. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 1.21 and a quick ratio of 1.21. The company has a market cap of $26.07 billion, a P/E ratio of 111.15, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.41 and a beta of 0.77. Tyler Technologies ( NYSE:TYL – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October 23rd. The technology company reported $2.52 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.43 by $0.09. The firm had revenue of $543.34 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $547.34 million. Tyler Technologies had a net margin of 11.39% and a return on equity of 9.79%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 9.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.66 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts predict that Tyler Technologies, Inc. will post 7.39 EPS for the current year. Insider Activity at Tyler Technologies In other news, CEO H Lynn Moore, Jr. sold 5,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, September 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $590.98, for a total value of $2,954,900.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 75,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $44,323,500. This represents a 6.25 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link . Also, CFO Brian K. Miller sold 2,500 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, November 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $624.41, for a total value of $1,561,025.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 11,950 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $7,461,699.50. This represents a 17.30 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 27,600 shares of company stock valued at $16,412,595. Company insiders own 2.20% of the company’s stock. Tyler Technologies Company Profile ( Free Report ) Tyler Technologies, Inc provides integrated information management solutions and services for the public sector. It operates in two segments, Enterprise Software and Platform Technologies. The company offers platform and transformative technology solutions, including cybersecurity for government agencies; data and insights solutions; digital solutions that helps workers and policymakers to share, communicate, and leverage data; payments solutions, such as billing, presentment, merchant onboarding, collections, reconciliation, and disbursements; platform technologies, an application development platform that enables government workers to build solutions and applications; and outdoor recreation solutions, including campsite reservations, activity registrations, licensing sales and renewals, and real-time data for conservation and park management. Recommended Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding TYL? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Tyler Technologies, Inc. ( NYSE:TYL – Free Report ). 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VANCOUVER - A pet food company in Oregon sent out a voluntary recall after a house cat died from eating its products, which tested positive for bird flu, and the company says the same contaminated batch was sold in British Columbia. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * VANCOUVER - A pet food company in Oregon sent out a voluntary recall after a house cat died from eating its products, which tested positive for bird flu, and the company says the same contaminated batch was sold in British Columbia. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? VANCOUVER – A pet food company in Oregon sent out a voluntary recall after a house cat died from eating its products, which tested positive for bird flu, and the company says the same contaminated batch was sold in British Columbia. Northwest Naturals in Portland, Oregon, says in a statement that it is recalling one batch of its two-pound Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food after it tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. The company says the same product was sold in several states including California, Colorado, Washington and B.C. in Canada. The Oregon Department of Agriculture says in a warning issued on Thursday that tests confirm that a house cat in Washington County was infected with H5N1 and died after consuming the raw frozen pet food sold by Northwest Naturals. The test results have triggered a nationwide voluntary recall with the company alerting consumers to check their products. The recall applies to products packaged in two-pound plastic bags with “Best if used by” dates between May 21, 2026, and June 23, 2026. Northwest Naturals says customers who have purchased the recalled product should immediately throw away the product. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Dr. Ryan Scholz, a state veterinarian with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, says in a statement that they are confident that this cat contracted bird flu by eating Northwest Naturals raw and frozen pet food, especially since this cat was “strictly an indoor cat,” which could not be exposed to the virus in its living environment. The Oregon Department of Agriculture says to date, no human cases of bird flu have been linked to the incident. It also says this case reminds pet owners that feeding raw meat to pets can lead to severe illness and these harmful pathogens, including H5N1, can be destroyed when meat is thoroughly cooked. Health Canada hasn’t officially recalled the products and it has not yet responded to media requests. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 26, 2024. Advertisement Advertisement

TikTok is inching closer to a potential ban in the US. So what's next?A group of New York state lawmakers, who are mothers and call themselves the "the Mom Squad," are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign several pieces of legislation aimed to improve access to health care, according to a letter they sent to the governor this week. The lawmakers say they are addressing legislation that would: “Child care is more than a workforce issue — it is a lifeline for families, an investment in the future of our children, and a key to unlocking the full potential of our economy,” the letter reads. “We are at a critical juncture, and now, more than ever, we must take bold action to make child care accessible and equitable for all. That is why we are urging you to sign three bills that passed with bipartisan support in both the Assembly and Senate. These bills are essential to removing the barriers that prevent families from accessing the child care they need and would help thousands of New York families become newly eligible for the Child Care Assistance Program.” The lawmakers made a plea to Hochul on a personal level, who is the first New York governor to be a mother. The requests come as the child care industry faces challenges from multiple fronts, with staff shortages and the end of federal dollars distributed during the COVID-19 pandemic. document.write(__reporter_name); - document.write(__reporter_title); document.write(__reporter_bio);

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