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Election 2020: Driving forces and possible outcomes
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On October 27, Governance Studies at Brookings will host a webinar to discuss the driving forces and possible outcomes of the 2020 election.
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Brookings If Black and white Americans had the same death rate for COVID-19, around 25k Black Americans would still be alive, says . Racial justice does play a big role in this election. #Policy2020 80d
COVID-19 could erase parenting gains of the last 30 years
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The COVID-19 crisis, and the economic and social restrictions that followed it, threaten the progress to erase income-based differences in parenting goals and behaviors.
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Brookings About three-quarters of parents of preschoolers report being “somewhat” or “very” worried about their children’s learning and social skills as a consequence of the pandemic-related school closures. 81d
A Time to Heal, A Time to Build
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Government’s relationship to both religion and civil society will be key in bringing our nation together.
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Brookings . and explain how America can get on the path of recovery and healing. #Debates2020 85d
Has Trump failed Black Americans?
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Rashawn Ray and Keon L. Gilbert write that while Trump has claimed that he has done more for Black people than anyone else, his policies have in fact undermined their overall socioeconomic prospects.
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Brookings Has President Trump really done the most good for Black Americans since Abraham Lincoln? and assess key issues. #Debates2020 85d
Heeding the call to action: A sustainable path for humanity
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John McArthur outlines five priorities for the new Brookings Center for Sustainable Development.
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Brookings COVID-19 didn’t cause the world’s interwoven economic, social, and environmental challenges of sustainable development, but it brings their importance to new light. 85d
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Brookings . introduces the new Brookings Center for Sustainable Development and outlines how it will help the world chart a newly sustainable path over the course of 2021 and far beyond. 84d
A New Contract with the Middle Class – Time
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The American middle class is facing a time squeeze. Helping middle-class families have more time for themselves and their families should be an important goal for public policy.
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Brookings In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for paid leave is clear. and propose a legal right to a minimum of 20 days leave each year. 88d
Fixing Greater Boston’s housing crisis starts with legalizing apartments near transit
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In a new report, the authors propose one strategy to create a statewide policy legalizing development of moderate-density housing near transit stations.
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Brookings Many of Boston’s affluent suburbs have such restrictive zoning that they are effectively “built out,” meaning that there is no legal capacity to create additional housing. 88d
Women are advancing in the workplace, but women of color still lag behind
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Adia Harvey Wingfield explains how racismand sexism adversely affect women in professional environments.
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Brookings “As we continue to develop various initiatives and policies to reflect a rapidly diversifying population, it’s important to not to repeat the mistakes of the past by again leaving women of color ignored and overlooked,” writes . 89d
High air ambulance charges concentrated in private equity-owned carriers
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Loren Adler, Kathleen Hannick, and Sobin Lee analyze the market for air ambulance services and provide solutions to managing high prices.
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Brookings Prices in America’s air ambulance market are high and growing rapidly, and these trends are especially pronounced among private equity-owned carriers. 89d
The true size of government is nearing a record high
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As the federal government has hovered close to two million employees for decades, the size of its grant and contract workforce has grown.
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Brookings “Despite its role in delivering on the government’s promises, the federal government’s blended workforce may have become a threat to the very delivery it guarantees,” Paul Light writes. 90d
A Supreme Court decision to strike down the ACA would create chaos in the health care system
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Christen Linke Young discusses the ways in which striking down the ACA would create chaos and uncertainty in in already volatile health care system.
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Brookings If the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety, 20 million people would lose health insurance. says the decision would create chaos. 94d
The new politics of bluelining
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For generations, redlining was used to designate neighborhoods—typically in urban areas with high concentrations of minority residents—as places banks should avoid offering home mortgages. The term…
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Brookings Professors David Damore, Robert Lang, and Karen Danielsen explain how divides between blue metropolitan areas and the red states they reside in often lead to public policy tensions. 98d
Breonna Taylor, police brutality, and the importance of #SayHerHame
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Melissa Brown and Rashawn Ray write that more public attention and awareness should be brought to bear on how the justice system disempowers Black women victims of police brutality.
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Brookings The level of public outcry about Breonna Taylor’s murder points to differences in how Black women’s encounters with the police are perceived by the public, write and . #VPDebate 100d
Why has China become such a big political issue?
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Ryan Hass unpacks what led China to become a more prominent political issue in the U.S. and the likelihood it drives the national conversation in 2020.
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Brookings . explains why a comprehensive policy on China will be of utmost importance for the next administration. #VPDebate 100d
Lessons learned from Taiwan and South Korea’s tech-enabled COVID-19 communications
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Clear and effective government communication across an array of platforms helps to keep the public informed and foster public compliance on COVID measures.
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Brookings "You respect the American people by telling the truth," says Harris. There is evidence that communicating the truth to their populations has immensely helped South Korea and Taiwan. 100d
A New Contract with the Middle Class – Health
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COVID-19 has highlighted the general state of America’s health, which is intimately connected to economic resources and structural inequalities. There needs to be a genuine, system-wide effort to i…
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Brookings “The state of our health is intimately connected to our economic resources and opportunities, the structural inequalities we face, the relationships we form, and the respect we are paid.” #MiddleClassContract 102d
What happens if President Trump contracts COVID-19
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John Hudak writes that the president contracting COVID-19 could lead to a few different scenarios: business as usual, the president invoking Section 3 of the 25th Amendment himself, or in the case of his sudden incapacitation, the vice president and...
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Brookings . explains what procedures are in place if the president becomes seriously ill with COVID-19. 104d
Disinformed democracy: The past, present, and future of information warfare
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On October 2, Foreign Policy at Brookings will host a virtual conference to examine the past, present, and future of disinformation and efforts to combat it.
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Brookings This is a very serious moment for our nation, where the resiliency of our institutions will be further tested, says Brookings President John R. Allen. He wishes the president and his family well and a speedy recovery. 105d
Was the first debate of 2020 also the last?
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Elaine Kamarck writes that the first 2020 presidential debate was so chaotically dominated by cross-talk that it raises the question of whether more debates should be held.
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Brookings Does the next presidential debate moderator need the ability to cut mics? reacts to a tumultuous night in American politics. 106d
America’s democracy on the edge
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America now stands upon the edge of a knife, and the stakes of this upcoming election may indeed be existential for the future of our democracy.
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Brookings Brookings President John R. Allen condemns white supremacy as the vile dogma that it is and argues that to reach the true potential of the nation, we need to invest in education on the causes and remedies of systemic racism in America. 107d