Tag: USA

(USA) Biden’s first 30 days were easy. Now comes the hard part (The Strategist)

Michael Shoebridge US President Joe Biden has hit the ground running. In his first two days in office, he signed 17 executive orders—more than any previous...
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(Australia/China/USA) Australia has a key role to play in reducing China’s rare-earths dominance (The Strategist)

Matthew Page and John Coyne US President Joe Biden has just signed an executive order launching a comprehensive review of America’s critical supply chains for strategically significant products and...
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(USA) How racial disparities in home prices reveal widespread discrimination (Brookings)

Andre M. Perry On February 24, 2021, Brookings Metro Senior Fellow Andre M. Perry testified to the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services’ Subcommittee on Oversight...
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(USA) Around the Halls: Should Congress extend enhanced unemployment compensation? (Brookings)

Lauren Bauer, Wendy Edelberg, Brad Hershbein, Tracy Hadden Loh, Mallika Thomas, Annelies Goger, Gary Burtless, Molly E. Reynolds, and John Hudak As Congress and the Biden administration work toward another round of economic...
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(USA) Educators are key in protecting student mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic (Brookings)

Marty Swanbrow Becker American students were experiencing widespread mental-health distress long before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2021/02/24/educators-are-key-in-protecting-student-mental-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
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(USA) Black moms facing the toughest childcare crunch: How policy can help (Brookings)

Ember Smith and Richard V. Reeves Balancing work and home can be a struggle for many parents—above all for Black moms, who are more likely to be...
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(USA) Addressing education inequality with a next generation of community schools: A blueprint for mayors, states, and the federal government (Brookings)

During few times in our country’s history has leadership in education been more critical. https://www.brookings.edu/research/addressing-education-inequality-with-a-next-generation-of-community-schools-a-blueprint-for-mayors-states-and-the-federal-government/
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(USA) Merrick Garland, cannabis policy, and restorative justice (Brookings)

John Hudak During his confirmation hearing this week, attorney general nominee Merrick Garland spoke openly about his views on cannabis enforcement in the United States. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/02/24/merrick-garland-cannabis-policy-and-restorative-justice/
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(Germany/USA/China) Germany is a flashpoint in the US-China cold war (AEI)

Hal Brands As goes Germany, so goes Europe — and that’s a real challenge for the U.S. During the Cold War, West Germany was America’s...
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(USA) Creating a more agile and secure defense innovation base (AEI)

Klon Kitchen Testimony - House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems https://www.aei.org/research-products/testimony/creating-a-more-agile-and-secure-defense-innovation-base/
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(USA) Fix family poverty with free markets, for once (AEI)

Naomi Schaefer Riley, Angela Rachidi It has been a strange month in the world of family policy. Since Sen. Mitt Romney (R–Utah) floated his child allowance...
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(USA) Improving Child Well-Being and Reducing Food Insecurity (Urban Institute)

Margaret Simms RaJade Berry-James Gary Glickman Demetra Smith Nightingale Food insecurity in children is a major challenge in the United States, especially during the current Covid-19 pandemic.  According...
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(USA) The Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements Will Hamper Access to Credit (Urban Institute)

Edward Golding Laurie Goodman Jung Hyun Choi John Walsh The changes that Trump administration officials made to the preferred Stock Purchase Agreements (PSPAs) – the contracts that govern...
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(USA) The Upper Middle Class Continued to Grow from 2014 to 2019 (Urban Institute)

Stephen Rose This update of a 2016 brief shows that the combined size of the upper middle class and rich grew from 31 to 39 percent of...
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(USA) Place-Conscious Strategies to Restore Opportunity and Overcome Injustice (Urban Institute)

Margery Austin Turner Mica O'Brien America has built starkly unequal communities, systematically excluding Black people and other people of color from places rich with resources and...
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(Europe/USA) Global gas firms target industrial ‘clusters’ for first hydrogen clients (Euractiv)

Frédéric Simon Gas companies in Europe and America are looking at using the existing gas network to serve industrial “clusters” of hydrogen users in sectors...
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