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The article focuses on the current state of the U.S. job market and economic indicators. Topics include stronger-than-expected job growth and a rise in unemployment, the moderation in inflation and its impact on interest rates, and the forecasted modest economic growth and consumer spending patterns for the near future.

This article is an introduction to a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics dedicated to the late Dr. James Rude. Dr. Rude was a respected economist who made significant contributions to the field of agricultural economics in Canada. The special issue includes a wide range of articles that reflect the broad reach of Dr. Rude's research and policy work. The articles cover topics such as policy interventions and rent seeking, farm-level production and management decisions, and market power and price transmission in agricultural supply chains. The special issue aims to honor Dr. Rude's contributions and continue his legacy in the field of agricultural economics. [Extracted from the article]

Street views, satellite imageries and remote sensing data have been integrated into a wide spectrum of topics in the social sciences. Computer vision methods not only help analysts and policymakers make better decisions and produce more effective solutions but they also enable models to achieve more precise predictions and greater interpretability. In this paper, we review the growing literature applying such methods to economic issues and the social sciences, in which social scientists employ deep learning approaches to utilise image data to retrieve additional information. Typically, image data produce better results than traditional approaches and can provide detailed results and helpful insights to improve society and people's well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding health problems as always unfinished, this article examines consequences of the declaration of the end of a health emergency on the practice of different and interconnected care networks. As part of the “Action Ethnography on Care…” research project, this is a qualitative case study of three documents produced after the announcement of the end of the Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome epidemic. It shows the contexts of narrative production involving researchers, managers/ public service workers, mothers and families of the ill, and mothers’ associations and their different perspectives about what care is. Analyses of a presentation for researchers and of a working paper for the Applied Economics Research Institute (IPEA) question the technical narrative celebrating the end of the emergency based on knowledge and health service without taking into account the relational, affective and political care (of mothers, families and associations), leaving the latter invisible. It describes the process of elaboration of a motion by the Zika Pandemic Forum, listing and systematizing action proposals produced in an explicit dialogue among participants in different care networks to approach unfinished post-emergency questions. It suggests that similar practices of dialogue between networks can promote greater inclusion and sensitivity to care that contribute to reducing suffering and defending the rights of people who continue to live daily with a syndrome or disease whose consequences persist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors of the letter in the journal "Communications in Statistics: Simulation & Computation" have reported a typographic error and suggested an improvement to the competing risks simulation function of the survsim package. These changes have been implemented and are now available in the current version of the survsim package. The authors note that the results reported in a previous publication are fully reproducible with the new version of the package. The authors are affiliated with various institutions in Spain. [Extracted from the article]