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But he also had a dunk covered by Jarrett Allen, impressive (29 points, 16 rebounds), just like Caris LeVert coming off the bench (23 units), within a Cleveland team that aspires to participate in the playoffs (21 wins, 15 losses). For Wembanyama and San Antonio – five losses in a row – it is only a question of the long term. The illustration was made once more this Sunday.
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January 2024
Housing Assistance Controversy: Impact on Moroccans Living Abroad (MREs)
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-01-07 19:00:00
As of January 5, 24% of the 7,961 registered to receive housing assistance are Moroccans living abroad (MRE). The new direct housing assistance program launched by King Mohammed VI to replace the 250,000 DH apartment program is arousing the interest of MREs. Only Moroccans residing in Morocco or abroad, who are not property owners in Morocco and who have never benefited from housing assistance, will be the beneficiaries of the aid. But the inclusion of MREs in the program raises heated controversies.
To read: Housing assistance: success with MREs
On the web, criticisms and questions are emerging among Moroccan Internet users. Some think that the ideal would be to exclude MREs from the program or to make Moroccans residing in Morocco the only beneficiaries. Others are worried regarding the idea that housing purchased by MREs under this program will fuel the black market, resulting in an explosion in rental prices. But according to the Ministry of Housing, once an owner, resident or not, the person concerned cannot rent their property, nor even use it professionally. MREs will be required to keep this accommodation for 5 years as their main residence in the Kingdom. They can also make them available free of charge for the benefit of their spouses, ascendants or descendants in the first degree direct line.
To read: Housing aid in Morocco: conditions and terms of granting
“It’s housing assistance for the most deprived in principle. Integrating MREs amounts to circumventing the goal. People are not once morest helping mothers but once morest diverting aid in favor of others for whom it is not intended,” comments an Internet user on X quoted by H24info. “ […] I don’t know if MREs are eligible even economically, because this type of housing is for the most precarious. I don’t know of any MRE households surviving on €500 per month, locals with this type of income much more frequently,” writes another. “To boost sales by 1, and 2, every MRE aspires to return to the country one day at least upon retirement. So I don’t actually understand certain comments…”, an X user is indignant.
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#inclusion #MREs #housing #assistance #badly
2022 Health Insurance Coverage: State-by-State Analysis and Trends
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-09-14 07:00:00
SEPT. 14, 2023 – Twenty-seven states had a higher percentage of people with health insurance coverage in 2022 than in 2021 according to American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. In terms of uninsured rates, or the rate of people without health insurance, Maine was the only state where the uninsured rate increased (up to 6.6% in 2022, from 5.7%).
“The changes in uninsured rates are impacted by multiple factors including the demographic makeup of a population and the economy. In 2022, we saw the uninsured rate decrease with the driving force differing by state,” said David Waddington, chief of the Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division at the Census Bureau. “For seven of the states with lower uninsured rates in 2022, the difference was driven by increased private coverage. For 10 states, the uninsured rate decrease was related to increased public coverage. In three particular states —Missouri, New York, and Virginia — the decline in the uninsured rate was a result of increases in public coverage that outweighed decreases in private coverage.”
State-level uninsured rates ranged from 2.4% (Massachusetts) to 16.6% (Texas) in 2022. The District of Columbia was among the lowest with an uninsured rate of 2.9%, not statistically different from Massachusetts.
Additional health insurance highlights include:
- Utah and North Dakota had the highest (78.4%) and New Mexico the lowest (54.4%) rates of private coverage in 2022, compared with the national average of 67.2%.
- Nine states experienced an increase in private health insurance coverage (Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas) and seven states (Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, and Virginia) a decrease in private coverage from 2021 to 2022.
- Utah had the lowest (22.2%) rate of public coverage in 2022, and New Mexico the highest (51.2%), compared with the national average of 37.2%.
- Between 2021 and 2022, the rate of public coverage increased in 13 states (Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Virginia) and decreased in one (Rhode Island). Oklahoma had one of the highest increases in public coverage (up 2.3 percentage points) from 2021 to 2022.
Additional statistics on health insurance coverage can be found in the report, Health Insurance Coverage Status and Type by Geography: 2021 and 2022.
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#Health #Insurance #Coverage #Increased #U.S #States
DEWA’s Renewable Energy Initiatives: Advancements in Clean Energy Storage Technologies
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-01-07 22:06:07
The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) stated that reliance on renewable and clean energy sources, especially solar energy, is increasing, especially in light of its low cost, and the global trend to contribute to addressing the repercussions of climate change by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, revealing its intention to establish a broad system. The range stores energy using electric batteries.
DEWA pointed out that the main challenge is to store this energy efficiently, to ensure its availability when the sun is absent and in cases of weather fluctuations, noting that it is one of the leading institutions in adopting the latest and best technologies for storing clean energy, and it has a number of the largest energy storage projects regionally and globally.
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, said: “We work within the framework of the vision and directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, to ensure energy security and sustainability.”
He added: “Energy storage is vital to ensuring energy sustainability and increasing reliance on renewable and clean energy solutions. In addition to the energy storage projects that we have implemented or are working on implementing, we plan to establish a large-scale energy storage system using electric batteries that are supplied with photovoltaic energy at the (Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park), and we have a strategy and roadmap for green hydrogen that will be implemented in phases. “In line with the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and the Carbon Neutrality Strategy 2050 for the Emirate of Dubai, to provide 100% of energy production capacity from clean energy sources by 2050.”
DEWA indicated that His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, inaugurated in December 2023 the fourth phase of the “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park” with a capacity of 950 megawatts.
She added: “This phase will provide clean energy to regarding 320,000 homes, and will contribute to reducing 1.6 million tons of carbon emissions annually. The fourth phase also uses three joint technologies to produce clean energy, including a parabolic inverter system with a total capacity of 600 megawatts, a concentrated solar energy tower with a capacity of 100 megawatts, in addition to photovoltaic solar panels with a capacity of 250 megawatts, with investments amounting to 15.78 billion dirhams according to the independent energy product system. The project includes the highest concentrated solar energy tower in the world, with a height of 263,126 metres, and the largest thermal energy storage capacity with a capacity of 5,907 megawatt hours, according to Guinness World Records.
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority stated that it is working on implementing a hydroelectric station using stored water energy technology in Hatta.
The Authority pointed out the implementation of a pilot project to produce green hydrogen at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Energy Complex, which is the first of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa region to produce green hydrogen using solar energy, store it and then convert it back into electrical energy, in addition to other uses.
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority revealed that it is conducting experiments on a number of advanced experimental systems for storing energy using batteries, as the Authority’s Research and Development Center registered a new patent for an innovative method to improve the work of electrodes in “lithium-ion” batteries, sodium and sulfur batteries, and redox batteries. .
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#Dewa #intends #create #energy #storage #system #electric #batteries