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Providing Stable, Healthy, and Affordable Rental Housing Through the COVID-19 Crisis
From the Executive Summary: "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] hit while the United States was already experiencing an affordable housing crisis. The pandemic's public health and economic impacts stand to magnify and accelerate the housing crisis, hitting communities of color the hardest, while simultaneously presenting a heightened threat to the residents and children who currently live in affordable housing units. America's families have proven remarkably resilient, but expired and insufficient federal assistance measures threaten a wave of destabilizing evictions. Congress and the Trump administration must move quickly and cooperatively to: [1] Ensure all Americans are stably housed until the public health threat of COVID-19 diminishes. [2] Strengthen health and housing partnerships and improve housing conditions as Americans spend more time at home."
Bipartisan Policy Center
2020-09
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COVID-19: Urgent Federal Actions to Accelerate America's Response
From the Executive Summary: "As it worsens, the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is both revealing and creating extraordinary challenges to our nation's health care system and public health infrastructure. [...] In this report, BPC's [Bipartisan Policy Center] health care leaders outline short-term recommendations for immediate execution to address the challenges of the current pandemic. The recommendations focus on six key issues: [1] Testing and contact tracing; [2] Vaccine transparency, equitable distribution, and uptake; [3] Surge capacity; [4] Supply chain management; [5] Racial disparities; [6] State, local, and provider funding."
Bipartisan Policy Center
2021-01
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Bipartisan Policy Center [website]
"The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a think tank that was established in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell to develop and promote solutions that can attract public support and political momentum in order to achieve real progress. The BPC acts as an incubator for policy efforts that engage top political figures, advocates, academics and business leaders in the art of principled compromise. Too often partisanship poisons our national dialogue. Unfortunately, respectful discourse across party lines has become the exception - not the norm. To confront this challenge, the BPC seeks to develop policy solutions that make sense for the nation and can be embraced by both sides of the aisle. After reaching shared solutions through principled compromise, we work to implement these policies through the political system. The BPC is currently focused on the following issues: health care, energy, national security, homeland security, financial services, and transportation. Each of these efforts is led by a diverse team of political leaders, policy experts, business leaders and academics. The BPC provides a bipartisan forum where tough policy challenges can be addressed in a pragmatic and politically-viable manner."
Bipartisan Policy Center
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Loosening COVID-19 Social Distancing Interventions: Lessons Learned from Abroad
From the Background: "[T]he Bipartisan Policy Center [BPC] initiated a study to assess how countries around the world are attempting to relax social distancing interventions as they transition from the initial pandemic wave. To assist with 6 this project, BPC analyzed real-time qualitative data from the Health System Response Monitor - a collaboration of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, the European Commission, and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. BPC also corresponded with experts connected to the Commonwealth Fund's International Health Policy and Practice Innovations program, reviewed various media reports and published literature, and drew on the expertise of an advisory group (see acknowledgments) which met virtually on April 23, 2020. Focus countries included Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, and Hong Kong. This white paper includes a case study of Germany's response and approach to loosening social distancing interventions, preliminary insights from a cross-country analysis, as well as implications and initial recommendations for the United States with respect to loosening social distancing interventions."
Bipartisan Policy Center
Parekh, Anand; Hoagland, G. William; Cassling, Kate . . .
2020-04
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Confronting Rural America's Health Care Crisis
From the Document: "The rapid spread of the new coronavirus has awakened the nation to the dire access problems that have long plagued rural communities and has underscored the need for immediate change. The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has highlighted the fragility of the rural health care system, in which hundreds of hospitals have already closed or are in imminent risk of folding. The pandemic now threatens to heap additional financial pressures onto these hospitals, leaving millions in fear that they won't receive care. [...] The Bipartisan Policy Center's Rural Health Task Force has developed recommendations over the last year to stabilize and improve the urgent problems challenging rural communities and to do it permanently. Launched in June 2019, the task force consists of health care experts, business leaders, physicians, and former elected officials. The aim was to produce policy recommendations to stabilize and transform rural health infrastructure, promote the uptake of value-based and virtual care, and ensure access to local providers."
Bipartisan Policy Center
2020-04
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Accessing the Vote During a Pandemic
From the Document: "State and local election administrators across the country are planning for voting in primaries and the November general election during the rapidly evolving COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. These officials are guided by the deeply held belief that every eligible voter be afforded a safe opportunity to vote. Election administrators are drafting realistic contingency plans for voting in real-time. They do not, however, have the power to implement these plans without state policymakers who may need to adjust, at least temporarily, state requirements to make voting work during a public health crisis. Policymakers need to understand the full breadth of issues that can arise throughout the remainder of the primary season and the general election campaign if election administrators are not given the room to be flexible and meet voters where they are."
Bipartisan Policy Center
Thomas, Christopher; Weil, Matthew
2020-05
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COVID-19 School-Age Care Solution: 21st Century Community Learning Centers
From the Introduction: "School officials and policy makers are searching for solutions to support working families and their school-aged children this fall, due to the ongoing COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] crisis, which has caused schools to implement remote learning and variable schedules. While these plans are intended to stop the spread of the virus, they will also create demand for school-aged child care from more than 23 million workers with no at-home care option, and necessitate additional educational support for children while they are not in the classroom. One proven program already exists to meet these needs: 21st Century Community Learning Centers. Scaling up this program would provide working families--particularly low-income families--with the combination of school-age care and proven academic support they will need this school year."
Bipartisan Policy Center
2020-08
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AI and the Workforce
From the Introduction: "Artificial intelligence [AI] will transform the nature of work and affect virtually all aspects of the economy. [...] An AI-driven economy will create the need to better prepare our workforce significantly. Failure to adapt to this technology will greatly hurt American competitiveness and also create significant economic hardship and pain for the average American worker. The disruption from globalization is a recent, but maybe imperfect, parallel. Globalization has benefited many, but it also displaced many workers. Better-managed globalization may have mitigated some of the public's current discontents. Preparing the workforce of the future and managing the rise of AI in an inclusive manner can help us best capture the potential of the new technology while softening the problems. The American worker can thrive in the AI-driven economy, but policymakers should help them prepare to reach their full potential."
Bipartisan Policy Center
2020-07
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Positioning America's Public Health System for the Next Pandemic
From the Executive Summary: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has made clear that the nation's safety, health, and economic prosperity are dependent on a robust public health system. Federal public health agencies and state and local public health departments have long been severely underfunded. They have lacked the workforce and modern data systems to support surveillance, contact tracing, testing, guidance on mitigation measures, administration of vaccines, and clear communication that is needed to stop infectious diseases from spreading across the country. In the beginning of the current pandemic, the federal government did not provide effective testing kits or clear and timely guidance to states, localities, tribes, and territories on COVID-19 mitigation measures, resulting in a delayed and fragmented national response. In addition, many Americans have chronic underlying health conditions such as obesity and heart disease, leaving them more likely to develop severe illness from the virus that causes COVID-19. Public health agencies and departments lack the resources to support prevention programs that might have reduced the prevalence of these conditions. Further, there are long-standing racial and socioeconomic inequities with respect to health and health care access. [...] Our recommendations focus on three areas: 1) creating clarity and accountability in federal leadership and operations during a pandemic; 2) improving public health information technology and data systems; and 3) committing the United States to more and consistent funding of public health to prepare for inevitable public health crises."
Bipartisan Policy Center
Daschle, Thomas; Frist, William H.; Wilensky, Gail R. . . .
2021-06
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Improving Food and Nutrition Security During COVID-19, the Economic Recovery, and Beyond
From the Executive Summary: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has had a significantly adverse impact on food and nutrition security, though this was mitigated by increased support for federal food and nutrition programs. Poverty increased as businesses closed and families experienced job losses. Access, availability, and affordability of nutritious foods has been challenging given consumer financial constraints and supply chain disruptions. [...] This brief is the first in a series of three by the Bipartisan Policy Center's Food and Nutrition Security Task Force and provides recommendations for bipartisan, consensus-based recommendations for improving food and nutrition security during COVID-19 and the economic recovery. Implementation of the policy recommendations in this brief can also support food and nutrition security during future public health emergencies, economic downturns, and recessions. [...] The Bipartisan Policy Center's Food and Nutrition Security Task Force makes [...] nine high-level policy recommendations to improve food and nutrition security in response to COVID-19 and the economic recovery[.]"
Bipartisan Policy Center
Bipartisan Policy Center. Food and Nutrition Security Task Force
2021-09
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Impact of COVID-19 on the Rural Health Care Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities
From the Executive Summary: "Before the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic began, hospital closures were increasing in rural communities across the nation: 116 rural hospitals closed between 2010 and 2019. Over the past two years, federal relief has helped stabilize facilities, and the pace of closures slowed. However, this assistance was temporary, and rural hospitals continue to struggle financially and to recruit and retain nurses and other health care employees. Against this backdrop, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) conducted a series of interviews over the last year with rural hospital leaders from eight states-- Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming--as well as with health policy experts from federal and state government, national organizations, provider organizations, and academia. The goal was to gain on-the-ground insights into today's rural health care landscape, where the population is older, sicker, and less likely to be insured or seek preventive services than in urban areas."
Bipartisan Policy Center
2022-05
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