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Wellpath, the private health contractor providing healthcare treatment at Santa Barbara County’s jails at annual cost of $26 million, reported a dramatic increase — 68 percent — in the number of inmates enrolled in Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) for addiction issues in both county jails in the past year. MAT refers to treatments in which…

For years, economists had a reliable answer whenever Silicon Valley screamed about AI destroying jobs: relax. Every automation wave from steam engines to spreadsheets ended with net job growth. That script just got torn up. Over 200 economists and tech leaders — including 16 Nobel laureates and chief economists from OpenAI and Anthropic — released…