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COVID-19 Economic Recovery Investments Must Benefit American Workers
From the Document: "Nearly one year into the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, the U.S. economy continues to reel from the Trump administration's negligent and insufficient response. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' latest jobs report, 2020 ended with 9.8 million fewer jobs than existed prior to the pandemic, and the current unemployment rate is nearly double that of February 2020. With a new Congress and administration in office, federal policymakers must make critical investments across the U.S. economy that will help kickstart recovery, get hundreds of thousands of Americans back to work, reduce poverty rates, and prevent cuts to essential services that sustain local communities. Fortunately, President Joe Biden has indicated his commitment to enacting economic relief that rebuilds America's crumbling infrastructure; invests in critical green industries; provides support for essential care work; and extends needed aid to state and local governments. In order to ensure that this stimulus delivers on its promise, policymakers must require that the spending creates good jobs for Americans from all walks of life--particularly when taxpayer dollars are going to private corporations." This material, 'COVID-19 Economic Recovery Investments Must Benefit American Workers,' was published by the Center for American Progress.
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Walter, Karla
2021-02-04
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Latinos Face Disproportionate Health and Economic Impacts from COVID-19
From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic and resulting recession have wreaked havoc on the United States' Latino community. Due to Latino workers being overrepresented in industries that have been hit hardest by the pandemic, Latinos have faced large losses in employment, particularly among Latinas in the service industry. Hispanics and Latinos are 1.7 times more likely to contract COVID-19 than their non-Hispanic white counterparts, as well as 4.1 times more likely to be hospitalized from COVID-19 and 2.8 times more likely to die from COVID-19. Hispanics or Latinos, along with other communities of color, have also been disproportionately harmed by the economic fallout: They accounted for 23 percent of the initial job loss due to the pandemic while making up only 16 percent of the civilian noninstitutional population--those 16 years and older who are not incarcerated or serving in the armed forces. Hispanic or Latina women have also seen disproportionate economic impacts. Women accounted for 100 percent of U.S. job losses in December, with Hispanic or Latina women alone accounting for 45 percent of that job loss." This material 'Latinos Face Disproportionate Health and Economic Impacts From COVID-19' was published by the Center for American Progress.
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Zamarripa, Ryan; Roque, Lorena
2021-03-05
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TANF is a Key Part of the Mix of Aid Programs Supporting Families During COVID-19 Crisis
From the Document: "The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program has been missing from efforts to ensure people who need help during this economic and health crisis caused by the coronavirus are getting it. TANF fits into a continuum of aid programs--including unemployment insurance (UI), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, and more--that are designed to help people experiencing hardship pay for necessities and find work. While TANF cannot simply replace them, it can act as a much-needed supplement for many families when those other programs come up short, and it can be targeted to meet the specific needs of the community that it is serving."
This material 'TANF is a Key Part of the Mix of Aid Programs Supporting Families During COVID-19 Crisis' was published by the Center for American Progress.
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Schweitzer, Justin
2020-10-07
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Building Equitable, Healthy, and Climate Change-Ready Communities in the Wake of COVID-19
From the Document: "Low-income and tribal communities as well as communities of color have long borne the brunt of environmental pollution, unjust housing policies, economic inequality, and disparate access to affordable and quality health care. The lack of investment in these communities coupled with historic and systemic racism has resulted in toxic air, properties contaminated by industrial pollution--or brownfields--high unemployment, chronic illness, and crumbling infrastructure."
"This material 'Building Equitable, Healthy, and Climate Change-Ready Communities in the Wake of COVID-19' was published by the Center for American Progress."
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Kelly, Cathleen; Reta, Mikyla
2020-10-08
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Alleviating Food Insecurity in the Disabled Community: Lessons Learned from Community Solutions During the Pandemic
From the Webpage: "Disability and food insecurity have a close and well-documented relationship. Inequities in economic opportunity for disabled people have made disability a key factor in predicting vulnerability to food insecurity; in turn, increased food insecurity is also associated with higher rates of disabilities related to chronic illness. This issue brief provides background on long-standing barriers to food security and access for disabled people in the United States. It then discusses the coronavirus pandemic's impacts and highlights disability and community organizations' solutions to these issues. Finally, it provides recommendations for the federal government to alleviate food insecurity in the disability community, including by expanding the definition of disability for anti-poverty programs, disaggregating data to include disability in hunger and food systems research, increasing federal funding to target food insecurity, and expanding and making permanent the online food purchasing pilot program in all states. Centering the experiences of community organizations that have worked to meet people's basic needs on a day-to-day basis--coupled with necessary policy changes at the federal level--is essential to beginning to address hunger in the disability community, both during and after the pandemic."
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Ives-Rublee, Mia; Sloane, Christine
2021-12-21
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When Confronting a Pandemic, We Must Save Nature to Save Ourselves
From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has brutally and tragically exposed the extent to which the health and well-being of every family in America depends on the health and well-being of nature--both here at home and around the world. Nature is connected to human health, from the inherent mechanisms through which ecosystems regulate the emergence of new pathogens to the health benefits of spending time outdoors. But in our destruction of earth's natural resources, we are losing these free services and reducing our resilience to new diseases. The current focus should remain on the immediate medical and socioeconomic needs in the United States. However, the COVID-19 outbreak has laid bare the need for a more proactive and integrated approach to fight infectious disease epidemics, which are becoming more common in many regions around the world. Specifically, alongside investments in epidemiological research and healthcare, we need to address the problem at its root: the destruction of nature."
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Doshi, Sahir; Gentile, Nicole
2020-04-20
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Coronavirus Crisis Confirms That the U.S. Health Care System Fails Women
From the Document: "The coronavirus pandemic has affected everyone's lives in numerous ways, but people have and will continue to experience these challenges differently. Pandemics worsen existing gender inequities both domestically and abroad--and this one is no different. While early estimates indicate that men are more likely to test positive for the virus, there is insufficient data to determine the complete effect of the disease among different genders, races, and ethnicities. Still, initial data suggest that the pandemic could exacerbate existing barriers to care that women experience, particularly for women of color, women with low incomes, women with disabilities, and women living in rural areas. Additionally, as unemployment skyrockets and the stock market continues to dip, creating financial strain for millions, women and people of color may be less able to afford COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]-related and other health care."
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Allsbrook, Jamille Fields
2020-04-23
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Protecting Farmworkers from Coronavirus and Securing the Food Supply
From the Document: "With millions of workers staying at home to aid public health efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], the security of America's food supply and its supply chains has rarely been more important. At this moment, to the extent that there is a challenge in ensuring America's grocery stores have enough healthy food on the shelves, it comes not from insufficient natural bounty but instead from the extraordinary burdens that COVID-19 has placed on the many low-wage workers who play such central roles in the functioning of food supply chains."
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Mathema, Silva; Willingham, Zoe
2020-04-22
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On the Frontlines at Work and at Home: The Disproportionate Economic Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Women of Color
From the Introduction: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe. It has upended the lives of hundreds of millions of people, decimated economies, and brought the hustle and bustle of daily life to a standstill. While much of the U.S. focus has been on the erratic stock market, steep business losses, stay-at-home orders, and the scope and pace of legislative and administration responses, too little attention has been paid to the daily impacts on communities and the needs of families across the country. Women of color, in particular, play a vital role in maintaining the economic stability of their families and communities--and therefore, understanding COVID-19's impact on this group is critical to overcoming the current crisis. Yet the public discourse about the most-needed interventions has largely overlooked the pandemic's cascading effects on women of color, leaving them out of policy debates on what actions must be taken moving forward to sustain families while reinvigorating the economy."
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Frye, Jocelyn
2020-04
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Bank Capital and the Coronavirus Crisis: 4 Ways the Federal Reserve Can Improve the Resilience of the Banking System
From the Introduction and Summary: "This report outlines the general importance of bank capital requirements, and it details the failures of the Federal Reserve's capital policy both before and after the onset of the coronavirus. It offers four recommendations that would allow the Fed to correct its mistakes. Rather than enact changes that benefit shareholders and executives or endanger the financial system, the Fed should suspend all capital distributions; temporarily delay and reformat the annual stress tests; be willing to require banks to turn to equity markets to raise additional capital if necessary; and indefinitely suspend implementation of an ill-conceived package of capital changes--the stress capital buffer (SCB) rule--which is set to increase the fragility of big banks. These actions would bolster the resilience of the financial system and ensure that banks are able to safely support the real economy during this period of severe stress."
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Gelzinis, Gregg
2020-05
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Improving the Formula for Federal Higher Education Coronavirus Funding
From the Document: "In March 2020, as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Congress authorized the largest one-year, direct investment in colleges since the Great Recession. Yet it's still nowhere near enough. America's public postsecondary education system will need at least $46 billion in additional stimulus funding to survive looming state budget cuts and other effects of the novel coronavirus. This estimate is based on state cuts to higher education during the Great Recession and accounts for how much worse this recession may be. As Congress considers additional stimulus funding for state and local governments, it will need to ensure that higher education also receives support. In doing so, it should not use the same formula it created in the CARES Act. This fact sheet summarizes policies that Congress can enact to make sure future higher education dollars are dispersed more equitably. In particular, this means prioritizing the interests of public colleges, which have fewer resources to draw on than private institutions and that serve a larger share of historically marginalized students."
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Anguiano, Viviann
2020-05-12
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Better Formula for Higher Education's Federal Coronavirus Funding: Increasing, Improving, and Accelerating Funding for Higher Education in the Next Stimulus Package
From the Document: "At $14 billion, the investment in operating support for higher education institutions from the coronavirus relief bill, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, is the largest one-year federal infusion of funds going straight to colleges since the Great Recession. That includes $6.2 billion each for institutional support and emergency financial aid for college students; $1 billion for minority-serving institutions; and about $350 million for colleges most affected by the pandemic. Yet it's nowhere close to enough."
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Miller, Ben
2020-05-11
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Fighting Coronavirus Misinformation and Disinformation: Preventive Product Recommendations for Social Media Platforms
From the Executive Summary: "Although online disinformation and misinformation about the coronavirus are different--the former is the intentional spreading of false or misleading information and the latter is the unintentional sharing of the same--both are a serious threat to public health. Social media platforms have facilitated an informational environment that, in combination with other factors, has complicated the public health response, enabled widespread confusion, and contributed to loss of life during the pandemic. Looking ahead, the Center for American Progress expects disinformation and misinformation about the coronavirus to shift and worsen. As public health conditions vary more widely across the United States, this geographic variation will be an ideal vector for malicious actors to exploit. Without robust local media ecosystems, it will be especially difficult for social media platforms to moderate place-based disinformation and misinformation."
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Simpson, Erin M.; Conner, Adam
2020-08
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Comprehensive COVID-19 Vaccine Plan: Efficient Manufacturing, Financing, and Distribution of a COVID-19 Vaccine
From the Introduction and Summary: "Several COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] vaccines have shown promising results in early stages of development. [...] Some experts believe the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could authorize a vaccine within six months. But this timeframe is not when most Americans can expect to be vaccinated. The time between FDA authorization of a vaccine and widespread availability can take many months. [...] Shortening this time by even weeks could save tens of thousands of American lives. Moreover, experts believe at least 70 percent of the population must be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity--when enough of the population is immune to protect the others by stopping spread of the virus. [...] Rapid manufacturing, financing, distribution, and administration of a COVID-19 vaccine will require unprecedented government planning, action, and coordination at both the federal and state levels. Tens of thousands of lives, millions of livelihoods, and a normal way of life are at stake." This material was published by the Center for American Progress.
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Spiro, Topher; Emanuel, Ezekiel J., 1957-
2020-07
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Italy After COVID-19: Betrayal or Renewal?
From the Document: "The United States has the opportunity to help Italy rebuild its economy as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic and to provide a set of practical tools that it can use to work with its European partners to do so. Supporting Italy's recovery is a wise investment that can yield a more stable Europe and a safer Mediterranean, as well as demonstrate the good that the United States can accomplish. This is a task that the administration can take on quickly with confidence that an early focus will pay off."
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Clark, Simon
2020-06-18
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Kicking Folks Out While They're Down: How the Premature Lifting of Coronavirus Restrictions is Increasing Evictions and Worsening the Homelessness Crisis
From the Introduction and Summary: "Experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity at any time is a struggle, but during a pandemic, survival is even more fraught. More than 560,000 people experience homelessness on any given night, and at least 1.4 million utilize emergency shelters or transitional housing in the United States each year. These high numbers will certainly surge during and after the coronavirus crisis due to job losses that place those already barely keeping a roof over their heads at an even greater risk of eviction and homelessness. [...] Once the immediate threat of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has passed and the United States enters the long recovery period, it must earnestly strive to put 'America's health first' by explicitly recognizing that housing is health care. A health-first approach necessitates a housing-first focus dedicated to redressing the United States' decades-old housing and homelessness crises." This material was published by the Center for American Progress.
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Frederick, Rejane; Lake, Jaboa Shawntaé, 1991-
2020-07
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ACA Marketplaces Are Poised to Weather COVID-19
From the Document: "Fortunately for the millions of Americans who purchase health insurance coverage on their own, the nongroup market has proven resilient against the Trump administration's numerous attempts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Enrollment has declined only modestly; insurers plan to expand their offerings again in 2021; and the ACA's rebate program has returned billions of dollars in overcharged premiums to policyholders. COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] presents a new test for the nongroup market, which includes individual plans in the ACA marketplace as well as ACA-compliant plans sold outside it and noncompliant forms of coverage, such as short-term plans. Through new analysis of insurance companies' rate filings for 2021, the authors find that insurers appear poised to weather the disruption and uncertainty stemming from the pandemic. Despite some experts' concerns early in the pandemic that costs related to the coronavirus could upend insurance markets, insurers report that their 2020 expenditures are on track to be lower than in typical years due to delayed elective procedures. Insurers expect to increase premiums only modestly in 2021 coverage."
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Gee, Emily R.; Gaba, Charles; Rapfogel, Nicole
2020-08-21
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20 Ways Cities Can Promote Safe and Effective Elections in November
From the Document: "Much has already been written about steps that election officials at state and local levels, such as state secretaries of state and boards of elections, can take to ensure the November general election is conducted safely during the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. These officials, who are primarily responsible for election administration, are being urged to adopt commonsense policies and make technical upgrades to election infrastructure. Cities, too, have an important role to play in helping ensure Americans are not forced to choose between their health and making their voices heard in November. Although they generally do not have a direct hand in overseeing state and federal elections, city officials and employees can be hugely influential in making sure elections are carried out safely and effectively this year. In particular, cities can help facilitate voter registration and participation, mitigate voter confusion, and provide valuable support to local election officers in carrying out their duties."
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Root, Danielle
2020-08-17
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Valuing Women's Caregiving During and After the Coronavirus Crisis
From the Document: "Working families are experiencing new challenges during the coronavirus crisis, as they must manage both work and an increase in caregiving responsibilities. Notably, mothers are responsible for the majority of this caregiving duty. While many working women, especially those in jobs with low wages or nontraditional hours, have long struggled to manage work and caregiving, the pandemic has created additional child care stresses for everyone, including higher-income families. With many schools, child care programs, and summer camps closed for the foreseeable future, women with young children have had no choice but to take on additional child care responsibilities that are often shared unequally with their partners. Federal policymakers must take significant action to invest in the child care industry and support women's work and caregiving now and in the future. If they do not, the United States risks losing much of the progress women have made toward gender equality in the home and workplace."
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Boesch, Diana; Hamm, Katie
2020-06-04
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COVID-19 Response in Indian Country: A Federal Failure
From the Introduction and Summary: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic's disproportionate and devastating harm to American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities is a direct and damning consequence of the U.S. government's failure to uphold its legal trust and treaty obligations to Indian Country. Currently, the Navajo Nation has the highest infection rate in the country, greater than that of the worst-hit state, New York; it is even greater than that of Wuhan at the height of the outbreak in China. Native people make up only around one-tenth of New Mexico's population but more than 55 percent of its coronavirus cases; in Wyoming, AI/AN people are less than 3 percent of the state population but make up more than one-third of its cases. This crisis--and the underlying conditions tribal communities face--are the result of centuries of colonial violence and neglect that continue to this day. [...] In order to allay the current crisis, enable tribes to recover, and prevent an even more devastating recurrence, the U.S. government needs to address the systemic inequalities that have held Indian Country back in its response to COVID-19--both as a matter of public safety and as one of legal and moral obligation."
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Doshi, Sahir; Jordan, Allison; Kelly, Kate . . .
2020-06
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Mounting Peril for Public Higher Education During the Coronavirus Pandemic
From the Document: "The coronavirus pandemic has led to the most difficult semester in generations on college campuses across the United States. With that semester now wrapping up, public colleges and universities are facing costs that already dwarf the $7.6 billion in federal stimulus funds that are on their way to these institutions. Absent dramatic new action from Congress, many of the public colleges that support social mobility will confront an existential threat."
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Yuen, Victoria
2020-06-11
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Toward Equitable Treatments for Women's Health During Coronavirus and Beyond
From the Introduction and Summary: "As the United States and the rest of the world rush to develop an effective vaccine and treatments for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] , it is critical that these therapies work for everyone. Unfortunately, clinical trials and research have historically prioritized white, cisgender men. Women, along with transgender men and nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people, have been excluded and underrepresented--with consequences for their health. No measures to treat and prevent the coronavirus will be truly successful if they are not effective for large swaths of the population; a failure to provide a vaccine and treatment that works for women is a failure to protect the public's health more broadly. Therefore, to better understand and address the different ways in which COVID-19 and other health conditions manifest--including but not limited to common conditions that disproportionately affect women, such as lupus and fibroids--it is critical for research and data to include women--especially women of color and pregnant women--as well as transgender men and nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people."
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Allsbrook, Jamille Fields; Ahmed, Osub; Ellmann, Nora
2020-07
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Why K-12 Education Needs More Federal Stimulus Funding
From the Introduction and Summary: "The economic downturn that has resulted from the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is already devastating households and families. While we do not yet know the full magnitude of the virus's impacts on the U.S. economy--and, in turn, on the nation's schools--it is evident that the effects will be substantial and likely reverberate for years to come. As states and localities work to estimate their budgets for the upcoming fiscal year, most are expecting large declines in revenue that will result in substantial budget shortfalls. Given that states and localities are the primary funding sources for K-12 public education, schools can also expect big budget cuts this coming year and likely for years to come. Worse yet, these deep cuts are coming at a time when many school budgets have still not recovered from the Great Recession, and in some communities, disinvestment has been chronic and systemic for generations."
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Partelow, Lisette A.; Yin, Jessica; Sargrad, Scott
2020-07
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Dangerous Gaps in Gun Laws Exposed by the Coronavirus Gun Sale Surge
From the Introduction: "Almost immediately after governors began to issue orders in early March directing nonessential businesses to close and individuals to stay at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, news stories began to emerge of increased traffic at gun stores. One photo of a line of buyers outside of a California gun shop is likely to become one of the most recognizable images from this moment in modern American history. Anecdotes emerged of individuals who had never considered buying guns before rushing to gun stores to make their first purchase, motivated by the fear and uncertainty of this unprecedented moment. Since this early reporting, data have confirmed a dramatic increase in the number of guns purchased during the pandemic. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the federal agency responsible for conducting background checks for gun sales, revealed that nearly 2 million guns were sold in March--the second highest monthly number since these data have been tracked. April gun sales were nearly as high, with an estimated 1.6 million guns sold--a 71 percent increase over April 2019. The trend in gun sales continued in May and June, with June seeing the biggest increase yet with an estimated 2.3 million guns sold."
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Parsons, Chelsea; Bhatia, Rukmani
2020-07-08
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Mental Health Care Was Severely Inequitable, Then Came the Coronavirus Crisis
From the Introduction and Summary: "People with mental health disabilities, like other historically oppressed communities, are experiencing compounded harms due to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. This is because sanism--oppression that has systematically disadvantaged people perceived or determined to be mentally ill--pervades public policy and life in the United States. [...] This report lays out the existing barriers to accessing affordable and affirming mental health services and considers the impact of COVID-19 on an already strained and inequitable mental health system. It also recommends that local, state, and federal governments take the following actions: [1] Provide an immediate increase in funding to Medicaid providers and in-need communities. [2] Increase funding for peer support and community-based services. [3] Address the social determinants of mental health. [4] Commit to permanently funding these policies." This material was published by the Center for American Progress.
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Altiraifi, Azza; Rapfogel, Nicole
2020-09
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17 Ways Companies Can Help Americans Vote Safely
From the Document: "Every federal election, there are several major, nationwide efforts to encourage voters to register and cast a ballot. But this year is different. Not only will the 2020 U.S. elections determine the future of the country--as elections always do--but the conduct of the elections could have public health consequences as well. COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has changed many aspects of daily life, but it cannot be allowed to dissuade Americans from voting or put voters' health at risk. [...] Fortunately, there is a lot that companies can do. [...] For example, companies with many young professional employees can encourage them to volunteer as poll workers; companies that own large venues can offer those spaces as additional polling locations; and businesses that are easily able to reach a large audience can advertise key election deadlines and can encourage their users, viewers, or listeners to register to vote and cast ballots early or by mail." This material was published by the Center for American Progress.
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Tausanovitch, Alex; Bonk, Sarah; Eidlin, Richard
2020-09-09
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True Cost of Providing Safe Child Care During the Coronavirus Pandemic
From the Document: "As the nation continues to grapple with the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic, child care is among the hardest-hit and least supported industries. Parents have long struggled to find and afford child care that meets their needs; and child care businesses have equally struggled to balance the cost of providing quality, developmentally appropriate care with the limited revenues available to them. Now, the pandemic has exacerbated the existing child care crisis and raised significant new challenges. Many child care programs were forced to close for a period of time, and while many have since reopened, they are operating with decreased enrollment and increased instability due to the ongoing impacts of the pandemic. This new reality poses a dire threat to many child care programs, which were already operating on razor-thin margins and lack the financial reserves to weather the current crisis." This material was published by the Center for American Progress.
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Workman, Simon; Jessen-Howard, Steven
2020-09-03
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Supreme Court Should Not Politicize Valid Public Health Orders
From the Document: "As COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] cases began to overwhelm hospitals in the United States, state and local governments enacted public health orders in order to slow the rate of infection. [...] Yet despite the broad public support for such public health orders, businesses and religious groups have brought multiple lawsuits in response. Most of these challenges have either contended that the regulating body does not have authority to issue the order, that the order was discriminatory, or that the order constituted a regulatory taking. Moreover, these challenges largely have been partisan in nature rather than in the interest of public health. The legal validity of these orders is also supported by a long history of precedent showing that policing powers reside with the state, with courts consistently ruling that these powers include instituting protections during public health emergencies. [...] In order to ensure the safety of Americans, it is critical that courts follow the law and not succumb to partisan political arguments that are at odds with case law and scientific reality. However, it is also important for courts to be attentive to the potential for states to abuse their broad emergency authorities--especially with an election looming."
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Wylie, Stephanie
2020-09-02
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Congress Must Help Rural America Respond to the Coronavirus
From the Introduction and Summary: "America has entered the fifth month of the coronavirus pandemic. Daily case counts continue to rise, even as the virus' spread slows in many other countries around the world. Though the number of cases is rising, much of the national discourse has focused on the economy--specifically, how the government can help spur an economic recovery. In many cases, however, these discussions and debates have not centered the residents of hard-hit rural communities. [...] This report analyzes the dynamics of recent household expenditures and business activity in rural America and offers three key takeaways: [1] Many rural areas, particularly rural communities of color, are experiencing coronavirus case numbers and deaths that now surpass those of the large metropolitan areas that dominated the news cycle early on during the pandemic. [2] The $1,200 direct payments given directly to households as part of the relief provided by the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act boosted spending and business revenues in April, especially in Southern rural communities. [3] While the percentage of small businesses that were open rose in May and early June, this number plummeted through the end of June along with small-business revenues; this trend coincides with the recent spikes in COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] cases, especially in the Sun Belt region." This material was published by the Center for American Progress.
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Ajilore, Olugbenga
2020-07
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All Risk, No Reward: Identifying the Economic Fallout from Premature Reopenings
From the Document: "It has been nearly six months since the first case of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] was reported in the United States, and states and localities have since struggled with how to best balance public safety and economic activity. The Trump administration's repeated abdication of responsibility for addressing the health and economic crises during the initial stages of the coronavirus pandemic has led to widespread speculation of what path forward is best and, as a result, a patchwork of lockdown restrictions. The administration also failed to provide enough tests; refused to help find states enough personal protective equipment (PPE); left states and localities to compete against each other for ventilators and other medical equipment; pushed states to open before it was safe to do so; and opposed extending much-needed benefits to struggling families. As such, the burden of addressing the public health crisis and its economic fallout has largely fallen on state governments and their elected officials, some of whom have openly stated that the economic costs of imposing stay-at-home orders are worse than the public health gains."
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Weller, Christian E., 1966-; Zamarripa, Ryan
2020-07-20
