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Why the pandemic’s record-breaking quit rates are a boon to workers (Robert Maxim, Mark Muro, and Yang You, Brookings)

Workers quit their jobs in record-breaking numbers in November, the Labor Department reported last week. At first glance, such a large number of quits, followed by mediocre...

The populist backlash in Chapter 11 (David Skeel, Brookings)

From a bankruptcy perspective, the pandemic has unfolded differently than many expected. Prior economic crises have caused sharp upswings in bankruptcy filings. The 2007-2009...

Do sectoral training programs work? What the evidence on Project Quest and Year Up really shows (Harry J. Holzer, Brookings)

It is widely known that the earnings of workers without college degrees have stagnated in recent years and employment rates, especially among men, have...

Want to restore trust in government? Start with customer experience (Sha Hwang and Annelies Goger, Brookings)

Confusing websites and long waits on the phone for accessing public services are eroding Americans’ trust in government. But it doesn’t have to be...

It Is Time to Counter China’s Data Strategy (Georgianna Shea, Trevor Logan, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) closed public feedback last month on a draft regulation to secure and manage data according to its importance to national...

What a New Report Tells Us About Al-Qaeda and ISIS (Thomas Joscelyn, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)

In December, the State Department released its annual Country Reports on Terrorism. Even though it wasn’t published until the end of 2021, the report covers...

Iran’s Mohsen Rezaee Should Face Justice (Emanuele Ottolenghi, Toby Dershowitz, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)

On January 8, a Dassault Falcon 900EX executive jet (tail number EP-IGC) owned by the Iranian government took off from Tehran, heading west. Aboard the...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: January (David Adesnik, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)

Welcome back to the Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy....

Who’s on Iran’s current nuclear negotiating team? Some have controversial pasts (Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Atlantic Council)

As nuclear talks in Vienna continue their halting progress, a look at the backgrounds of the key members of the Iranian negotiating team may...

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