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Grégoire Webber
Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law
BCL, LLB (McGill)
DPhil (Oxford)
Grégoire Webber is Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Queen's Law, cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is joint convenor of the Queen's Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy.
Professor Webber is a graduate of McGill University with bachelors of civil law and common law and of the University of Oxford with a doctorate in law, where he studied as a Trudeau scholar. He clerked for Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada and, as a student, for Justice André Rochon of the Quebec Court of Appeal.
Professor Webber previously worked as a senior policy advisor with the Privy Council Office and as Legal Affairs Advisor to the Attorney General of Canada and Minister of Justice and is currently legal agent of the Department of Justice (Canada). He is joint founder and Executive Director of the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute, which provides free advocacy advice to counsel appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada. For his role in co-founding the Institute, the Governor General of Canada awarded him a Meritorious Service Medal.
Foundational questions in human rights, public law, and the philosophy of law, including:
the natural law tradition;
the nature of rights;
the relationship between positive law and human rights;
balancing and proportionality in human rights law; and
the political constitution.
Recent Professional Achievements
Re-appointed Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law, 2019-
Appointed to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, 2019
Cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy, 2018-
Appointed legal agent of the Department of Justice, 2017-
Appointed Legal Affairs Advisor to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, 2016-2017
Awarded a Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada, 2015
Founding convenor (joint) of the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy, 2015
Appointed Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2015-
For a complete list of publications and other information, please see Professor Webber's CV and Google Scholar profile.
Droits et droit (Montréal: Les Éditions Thémis, 2020) [Thémis]
Legislated Rights: Securing human rights through legislation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018; paperback edition, 2019) (jointly authored with P. Yowell, R. Ekins, M. Köpcke, F.J. Urbina, and B.W. Miller) [CUP] [SSRN]
The Negotiable Constitution: On the Limitation of Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; paperback edition 2012) [CUP] [SSRN]
Edited collections
Constitutional Dialogue: Rights, Democracy, Institutions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019; paperback edition, 2020) (edited with G. Sigalet and R. Dixon) [CUP] [SSRN]
Proportionality and the Rule of Law: Rights, Reasoning, Justification (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014; paperback edition, 2016) (edited with G. Huscroft and B.W. Miller) [CUP] [SSRN]
"Notwithstanding rights, review, or remedy? On the notwithstanding clause and the operation of legislation" (2021) 71 University of Toronto Law Journal __ (forthcoming) [UTLJ]
"Legislated Rights and contemporary constitutional government" (2020) 11 Jurisprudence 632-644 (with Richard Ekins) [SSRN]
"Legislated Rights in the real world" (2020) 21 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 145-170 (with Paul Yowell) [JRLS] [SSRN]
"A conservative disposition and constitutional change" (2019) 39 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 526-552 (with Graham Gee) [OJLS]
"Legislated Rights in the Anglo-American Tradition" (2018) 10 Faulkner Law Review 129-169 (with Richard Ekins) [SSRN]
"Judicial power and judicial responsibility" (2017) 36 University of Queensland Law Journal 205-220 [UQLJ]
"Loyal Opposition and the political constitution" (2017) 37 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 357-382 [OJLS] [SSRN]
"The Question Why and the Common Good" (2017) 8 Jurisprudence 99-109 [Juris] [SSRN]
"Asking why in the study of human affairs" (2015) 60 American Journal of Jurisprudence 51-78 [AJJ] [SSRN]
Chapters in edited collections
"Proportionality and limitations on freedom of speech" in The Oxford Handbook of Freedom of Speech (Frederic Schauer and Adrienne Stone, eds, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) [OUP] [SSRN]
"Opposition" in The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (Richard Bellamy and Jeff King, eds, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) [SSRN]
"Can the constitution of a fruit fly be written?" in From morality to law and back again: Liber amicorum for John Garder (Michelle Dempsey and François Tanguay-Renaud, eds, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) [SSRN]
"The duty to govern and the Rule of Law in an emergency" in Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19 (Colleen M. Flood, Vanessa MacDonnell, Jane Philpott, Sophie Thériault, and Sridhar Venkatapuram, eds, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2020) [open access: UOP]
"Past, present, and justice in the exercise of judicial responsibility" in Constitutional Dialogue: Rights, Democracy, Institutions (Geoffrey Sigalet, Grégoire Webber, and Rosalind Dixon, eds, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019) [CUP] [SSRN]
"Proportionality and absolute rights" in Proportionality: New Frontiers, New Challenges (Vicki Jackson and Mark Tushnet, eds, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017) [CUP] [SSRN]
"On the loss of rights" in Proportionality and the Rule of Law: Rights, Reasoning, Justification (Grant Huscroft, Bradley W. Miller, and Grégoire Webber, eds, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014; paperback edition, 2016) 123-154 [CUP] [SSRN]
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Die Arabische Republik Ägypten ist in 27 Gouvernements () unterteilt, an deren Spitze jeweils ein Gouverneur im Ministerrang steht.

Die meisten dieser Gouvernements führen eine Flagge, die Bezug auf regionale Besonderheiten nimmt.

Fast alle Flaggen führen ein Emblem auf einfarbigem Untergrund. Die häufigste Farbe ist Grün, gefolgt von Blau in verschiedenen Tönungen und von Weiß. Keine einzige Flagge ist – wie die Nationalflagge Ägyptens – als Trikolore gestaltet.

Liste

Siehe auch
 Gouvernements in Ägypten
 Flagge Ägyptens

Literatur
 George Chakar: The Flags of the Governorates of Egypt in The Flag Bulletin Vol. XV, No. 5, Flag Research Center, Winchester MA September/Oktober 1976, S. 157–160, (englisch).

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Wife of Party Official Killed in Xinjiang 'Revenge Attack'
Chinese police officers and paramilitary policemen patrol a street in Kashgar city, July 23, 2014.
The wife of a ruling Chinese Communist Party official in the restive Xinjiang region was stabbed to death and her husband severely wounded in an attack which authorities said was an act of revenge for a raid on ethnic minority Uyghur Muslims during a mosque prayer session.
Unknown assailants wielding axes and knives burst into the home of party secretary Rejep Islam in Hotan prefecture's Qaraqash county at around 3:00 a.m. on July 19, killing his wife Zeynep Memtimin and leaving him in need of urgent medical care, according to the chief of his village, Memetjan Jumaq.
The attack comes amid unending violence that have led authorities to maintain an anti-terror campaign in Xinjiang, where many Uyghurs complain that they are subject to political, cultural, and religious repression for opposing Chinese rule.
Jumaq, head of Ayaq Purchaqchi village in Purchaqchi township, told RFA's Uyghur Service that he had accompanied Islam a day earlier in a raid during prayer time on a local mosque as around 200 officials and security personnel searched for six suspects they had linked to a shooting incident in May.
"A Uyghur official from the township cautioned us to wait till the end of Tarawih (Ramadan evening) prayer and detain the suspects from their homes without disrupting the session, but Zhao, the party secretary of the township, said, 'We should detain them now, otherwise we will lose them'," Jumaq said.
"Rejep Islam, the head of our village supported it. As he entered the mosque, I followed him. He interrupted the sermon and announced, 'We need to talk to some of you outside, while the others can continue your prayers,' before reading off the names of the individuals."
Jumaq said that authorities detained six people during the raid in connection with a May 27 house search that had led to a scuffle between the Uyghur occupants and authorities, and subsequent shooting death by police of the homeowner's father.
"The people were very upset [about the prayer raid], including the Imam, but nobody could do anything because the mosque was surrounded by armed personnel," he said.
Jumaq said that around 3:00 a.m. the next morning, he was awoken by a phone call informing him Islam had been attacked, so he went to inspect the crime scene at the party secretary's home.
"I saw police standing guard at his door and then I saw Rejep Islam lying on the floor. He was later taken away to the emergency room. His wife Zeynep Memtimin had been killed," he said.
"We saw the blood and injuries on their bodies and I passed out. I had done the same thing as Rejep Islam [during the raid], so I realized it was possible that I would meet the same fate someday. It was inevitable that this kind of thing would happen."
Jumaq said he was told to return to his home after regaining consciousness, so he was unable to provide any further details of the investigation.
Hamtahun Kurban, the head of nearby Uttura Purchaqchi village, told RFA he had visited with Islam five days after he was hospitalized and said that the party secretary had related to him the details of the attack.
"According to Rejep Islam, he went to sleep that night feeling a bit anxious, so he kept a police baton with him under his pillow," Kurban said.
"He awoke to hear his wife screaming and saw her being attacked by a few people with knives and axes. He set upon them with the baton, but was unable to stop them."
Kurban said that Islam then ran into another room of the house and locked himself in, but the attackers broke through the windows in the door and attacked him with kitchen knives until he lost consciousness.
"Thinking that he was dead, the attackers left him there. But when he regained consciousness, he called for help from the police," he said.
Rejep Islam was "very active" in maintaining area stability and "very strict" in managing religious affairs, Kurban said, referring to policies of an anti-terror campaign in Xinjiang stepped up following a May 22 bombing in the regional capital Urumqi, which killed 31 people and injured 90.
He said that since the campaign was launched, prompting increased house-to-house searches and raids, "only five or six women who were questioned had been detained by the police, while all others were detained by Rejep Islam alone," raising animosity against him within the local Uyghur community.
Act of revenge
Keyum Ahmet, police chief of Purchaqchi township, told RFA that he believed Islam and his wife were targeted as revenge for the shooting death by police of Abdukerim Tohtiniyaz while searching the home of his 22-year-old son Abdurrahman Abdukerim in Ayaq Purchaqchi village on May 27.
Ahmet said that officers had been met "with resistance" during a routine search of Abdukerim's home.
"When the police ordered two women of the household to take off their veils, Abdurrahman attacked them and beat them down when he saw that the officers were not carrying any weapons," he said.
"When we arrived to help, Abdurrahman had escaped by leaping over his courtyard wall. His father, Abdukerim Tohtiniyaz, not only refused to cooperate in finding his son, but he also created a dispute with us. He was shot and killed on the spot."
Ahmet said that police had been searching for Abdukerim since the incident, and that a subsequent investigation had determined 11 people—three of whom were women—had helped in hiding him.
"We detained six of them on July 18 during the Tarawih prayer," he said, adding that he believed Abdukerim was responsible for the subsequent attack on Islam and his wife.
"The suspect Abdurrahman Abdukerim and his accomplices were taking revenge for his dead father and expressing their opposition to our detaining people during prayer. This was a violent terrorist crime."
More than 200 people have died in unrest in Xinjiang in the past year or so, the government says.
On Monday, Chinese police in Yarkand (in Chinese, Shache) county in Xinjiang's Kashgar prefecture shot dead dozens of knife and axe-wielding Uyghurs who went on a rampage, apparently angry over restrictions during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and the killing of a family of five during a house search in early July.
Reported by Shohret Hohshur for RFA's Uyghur Service. Translated by Mamatjan Juma. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.
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China Obscures Probes Into Xinjiang Cotton Supply Chain
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Aksu Internment Camp Was Former Hospital, Raising Fears Uyghur Detainees Are Used in Organ Trade
US, International Lawmakers Urge UN to Launch Probe of Rights Abuses in Xinjiang

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This was the first Primus album I ever heard, and at that point I decided that I didn't much like Primus. It wasn't until several years and several Primus albums later that rediscovered the Brown Album and started to listen again. This is definitely not the album to check out if you are just being introduced to Primus, as it is not really representative of their overall work. Overall, the Brown Album leaves much to be desired when compared to other Primus records. Most songs are mediocre at best (though there are a few gems), the recording quality is intentionally muddy and distorted, and it sounds as if the drums were recorded through a distortion box. Brain's drumming style does not compare to Tim Alexander's (Primus' previous drummer on Frizzle Fry/Seas of Cheese). This is not to say the songs aren't interesting. Sathington Willoughby is a strange political rant, "Over the Falls" tells an interesting story, and "Restin' Bones" warns of the dangers of amphetamine use. The highlight of the album is "Chastising of the Renegade" which is more reminiscent of the Pork Soda days. There are really not filler tracks on the album, it just so happens that most of the songs are sub-par for Primus.
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After reading the most of the reviews about RGV's Darna Zaroori Hai, I am forced to pen down my own thoughts. No, this is not a personal review of the DZH, but a personal review of reviews(that respected members of mouthshut have given) about DZH. Having seen the movie in its entirety, I can hardly recall any moment that could be termed or classified as dull and boring. Though, some people have, to some extent, rightly infered that the Sunil Shetty and Rajpal Yadav episode, could have been replaced by another, more interesting and gripping story.
What most of the reviewers have complained about DZH, is that it lacks the spine chilling factor, it hardly has any moments that gives the viewers goosepimples, or it is just a plain vanilla. Excuse me, but if people went to the movie, expecting to see some grisly and rivetting tale of horror, which includes scenes of rotting corpses, strange and scary sounds emanating from dark basements, to see the skeletons dancing alongside with witches, ghouls and ghosts, then, you are truly in for a disappointment. If that is what they want to see then I might, as well, advise them to catch up with latest on Nithari killings, where a psychopath and his close confidante, lured, and sexually abused women and young kids and later ate and dumped their hacked body parts into the drain. Plus, this episode is a brutal naked reality and not something closer to the reality.
When I go to see a movie, any genre it may belong to, I expect to be entertained both as an ordinary audience and as a film critic. The film critic in me needs to be satiated first, before the ordinary guy in me can be happy, with a good film viewing experience. DZH, provides me with enough moments of excitement, thrill and suspense, without being either too bloody or sadistic. DZH, without a doubt, is a way, way better film than what hindi cinema has to offer month after month, year after year. One film with six different stories, shot by six different directors, is like seeing things from six different perspectives. I would rather see small, fast paced episodes in one film rather than sit down for atleast 2 - 3 hours and watch the mundane love stories churned out by conventional Bollywood film industry.
I would recommmend DZH, to all the mouthshut readers and I am sure you will enjoy it and hopefully agree with me, as to what I am trying to say here.


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Das Arnsbergische Intelligenzblatt erschien zwischen 1766 und 1819. Es war die erste regelmäßig erscheinende Zeitung im Herzogtum Westfalen.

Geschichte
Seit dem 18. Jahrhundert entstanden auch in Westfalen allmähliche regelmäßig erscheinende Zeitungen und Zeitschriften. Insbesondere entstanden nach dem siebenjährigen Krieg in den meisten größeren Territorien so genannte Intelligenzblätter. In Arnsberg erhielt am 6. Oktober 1766 nicht zuletzt auf Betreiben des Hofrates Johann Wilhelm Arndts der Drucker Eberhard Herken das kurfürstliche Privileg nicht nur für einen Verlag und eine Druckerei, sondern auch für die Herausgabe des Arnsbergischen Intelligenzblattes. In der Genehmigung hieß es: "Damit auch der gemeine Mann von den Begebenheiten im Lande inne werden möge…" Es wurde auch bestimmt, dass die Behörden für jeden Pfarrort ein Exemplar zu abonnieren hätten. Das Blatt sollte "bei dem vornehmsten Wirt oder Vorsteher jedes Ortes auszulegen, damit jedermann solches auf denen Sonn- und Feiertagen einsehen könne."

Dieses Blatt erschien regelmäßig zweimal wöchentlich. Eigentlich sollte das Intelligenzblatt nur amtliche Bekanntmachungen und Anzeigen enthalten. Herken hat aber auch anderes veröffentlicht. Dazu gehörten Gedichte wie die zahlreichen lateinischen Gelegenheitsdichtungen des Hofrates Caspar Theodor Georg Pape. Daneben hat er auch allgemeine politische und lokale Nachrichten gedruckt. Teilweise waren diese auch beleidigender Art. Daher geriet er in Konflikt mit den Behörden.

Deswegen übergab er das Blatt an einen Vetter Johann Franz Herken. In der Zeit der hessischen Herrschaft von 1803 bis 1816 haben die Behörden das Blatt zu einer streng regierungsfreundlichen Haltung angehalten. Ähnlich rasch passte sich das Blatt 1816 den neuen preußischen Landesherren an.

Nach dem Übergang des Landes an Preußen beabsichtigte die neue Regierung in Arnsberg, eine eigene Zeitung herauszubringen. Sie kaufte 1819 Herken seine Lizenz ab und gab seither das "Amtsblatt der königlichen Regierung" heraus. Da dieses die Informationsbedürfnisse der Bürger nicht ausreichend erfüllte, hat der damalige Kanzleibuchhalter C.A. Düser seit 1820 das Arnsberger Wochenblatt herausgegeben.

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Hans Wevering: Als in Arnsberg noch "Zeitung gemacht wurde." In: Heimatblätter Arnsberg. Jg. 26, 2005, , S. 28f.
 Karl Féaux de Lacroix: Geschichte Arnsbergs. H. R. Stein-Verlag, Arnsberg 1895, S. 463–465 (Unveränderter Nachdruck. Stein, Werl 1983, ISBN 3-9209-8005-0).
 Karl Heinz Welke: "Damit auch der gemeine Mann…" Am 6. Oktober 1766 erschien als erste lokale Zeitung das Arnsberger Intelligenzblatt. In: Westfälische Rundschau vom 15. Januar 2009.

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 1766 Herausgabe des Arnsberger Intelligenzblattes
 Digitalisate auf zeit.punkt NRW

Zeitung (Deutschland, Erscheinen eingestellt)
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Zeitung (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Erscheinen eingestellt)
Ersterscheinung 1766
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Two weeks ago, I visited my family for the first time in over two years. The best news from home is that my sister is having her fourth child and it's a boy. I can't wait to meet him! To celebrate, my family asked me to take some photographs at the beach! Congratulations to my sister and the best bro-in-law in the world, Matthew Powers.
Being home for five days was too fast. I want to, however, share a few thoughts with my family and friends. I'll also include the rest of the pictures from the photoshoot below.
Five days was too short. Seeing your beautiful faces, laughing at our bad jokes, and getting under dad's skin was all too short of a process. When you live away from home for so long, you cherish what you left behind, but you tend to forget how differently the Earth seemed to move from your old vantage points. Being back home was like riding a bike, but it was different. It was like riding a bike backwards. Everything feels safe, comfortable, and right. Unfortunately, there is this sinking pit in your stomach. You know, what feels so right is no longer real. It's no longer your real life and this beautiful vacation – this beautiful chance to be around the few people who unconditionally love you – is coming to an end.
There is a girl I'm talking to in Korea. She told me that Korean men are not supposed to cry. They are supposed to be strong. Well. . . I'm not Korean. I can't be anything but myself. I can't help but let tears fall at this coffee shop as I write this. I love all of you so much. It's baffling to me because I'm such an introvert that I didn't know how to show you my love while I was home. I don't know how to say or express how I feel. Life can be so frustrating. We release the emotions and words we don't want to share, but we keep so much of what we want to share bottled up in our hearts and heads.
I miss my family. I miss my friends. I miss my home. I'll always miss Halo and I'm so glad I got to see her before we let her go. I feel your pain and loss, yet I share your excitement for the grandkids and baby #4. I'm not there – I am here. But I promise, I'm with all of you. I think of all of you constantly, even if my time with you on Skype doesn't reflect it.
I'm so excited I get to be your friend for the rest of my life. I learn so much from you and you mean the world to me. Everything that I've seen that is good in life is encompassed in who you are. I can't believe how cool you are, and I still don't understand why you love me so much. Don't tell anyone this, but I think my favorite part of being home was taking pictures of dead fish with you. By the way, I figured out that problem with my flash 🙂 I've introduced you to kakao and we are the only family members on twitter! It's so easy for us to stay in touch now! Call me any time you want – nothing makes me happier than hearing your voice.
Whoa, you are some good looking kids. I loved spending time with all of you. Rebekah, I wear the handcuff necklace you bought me with your points at Lattitude all the time. It's my favorite accessory. I miss talking you and hearing your stories. Kaden, you are one interesting little dude. I love how you break it down for all of us and I can't wait to see how you continue to grow. Mikah, I didn't really know you that well when I left. It was sooooo great to meet you. You make me laugh so much and I can't wait to spend more time with you in the future.
Thanks for being awesome friends who remembered me after being gone for almost three years. As you get older, you realized you are blessed if you have a handful of true friends. I'm blessed, and I hope to see all of you soon.
Thanks for the most fun night I had back home. Thursday nights in Jacksonville are still kind of dead downtown, but we had an epic night anyways. I hope we get to do it again real soon. All of you looked fantastic!
Here are some more pictures of my beautiful family. I long for the day when I can see them again!


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It is the fourth of a series of stories through AL.com to reflect on the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic reaching Alabama. Every day until March 13, we will raise the voices of those affected.
A year ago, Alabama was one of 50 states facing a titanic blow to its economy – a nearly 30% drop in gross domestic product in one quarter – as the coronavirus lockdown crippled entire sectors of the economy.
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Shops and shopping centers closed. Restaurants closed. Hundreds of thousands of Alabamians have been made redundant or temporarily lost their jobs. Entire offices moved their business online while workers stayed at home.
A year later, Alabama appears to be in a better position than other states as the United States seeks to recover. Like other restaurateurs, Bob Baumhower had to get creative to stay afloat. He converted his business to take out and deliver groceries while waiting for a small business loan.
"We have reached our last payroll," Baumhower said. "We had enough money in the bank to pay half the payroll, and then we got approved."
A year later, Baumhower's 12 restaurants are operational, including one that opened during the pandemic, and another is underway.
Alabama is ahead of most other states in the speed of its COVID-19 recovery. According to Moody's Analytics and CNN Business, the state has the fifth-best "back to normal" ranking in the United States, based on its employment and production numbers.
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According to the Business and Economics Research Center at the University of Alabama, Alabama's economy recovered from the coronavirus fall, growing nearly 35% in the third quarter of 2020 and d 'about 4% in the last quarter. The center predicts 3.1% growth in 2021.
It's a surprising turn of events. Consider that at the height of the pandemic shutdown in April, Alabama's unemployment rate stood at 12.9 percent, its highest in nearly four decades and nearly 10 percentage points higher than the preceding month. The pressure on services was evident lLast summer, hundreds of unemployed Alabamians waited for hours for the chance to meet with a representative from the Alabama Department of Labor. This is after weeks of complaints about overloaded phone lines.
But by November, the unemployment rate had fallen to 4.4%, which was closer to the 2.7% recorded by the state a year earlier before the virus.
So what happened? Keivan Deravi, founder of Montgomery Economic Research Services, said Alabama was able to weather the storm because its economy is more focused on producing goods than services. The state gained 6,700 construction jobs and lost just 4,100 manufacturing jobs. At the same time, state and federal governments have not experienced a sharp reduction in their revenues, which would have resulted in cuts in services and employment.
Alabama again recorded a net loss of 34,000 jobs last year. But there is hope for the future. CBER executive director Ahmad Ijaz said the economy is expected to be booming by the second half of 2021, assuming most people will be vaccinated by the second half of the year.
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But there has always been damage to the most vulnerable workers in society. A survey conducted by the nonprofit Adelante Alabama at the end of last year among workers earning less than $ 15 an hour showed that despite the pandemic, many low-wage workers still lack access to health insurance, paid vacation or even unpaid time off for sickness, family care or quarantine.
The pandemic has also imposed difficult choices on low-wage workers. Just over half, 57%, said their hours had been reduced due to the pandemic, while 19% were actually more working because of the virus. About 11% said if they did not show up for work they would be made redundant and 11% said they could not work because they had to take care of children or family members.
At the local level, business leaders like Baumhower kept their cool and kept going. Others, like the owners of Birmingham's Thank You Books, have kept their business going through customer loyalty and ingenuity. The store reopened in the summer of 2020. Customers have returned, said co-owner Elizabeth Goodrich, resisting COVID guidelines and spending money while maintaining a sense of balance.
"For me, the store is a real anchor in all the best ways," says Goodrich. "I feel better when I'm there, being able to do things that seem normal and routine to me. … We love books and we love people.
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To see all the stories of Alabamians affected by COVID, go here.
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