As America handles COVID-19, we hope to provide some valuable policy insights with regard to managing the virus. Our public health experts, regulatory experts, and other scholars will provide policy ideas and commentary on the policy implications of Coronavirus.
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Los Angeles Might Force Broke Businesses To Keep Paying Workers During Coronavirus Outbreak
Steven Greenhut & C. Jarrett Dieterle
As businesses across the country are roiled by the uncertainty caused by Covid-19, many are forced to make difficult and complicated decisions to stay afloat. Some have already been forced to close…
Coronavirus Exposes Birth Control Access Flaws
Marc Hyden & Caroline Kitchens
As the number of coronavirus cases in the United States continues to climb, many fear that the pandemic will soon overwhelm our healthcare system.
To prevent the United States from going the way…
, The Hill
Policing in an age of empty streets
Arthur Rizer
Everything around us seems different these days. The streets are empty while businesses and restaurants are closed. In this strange new world, how should policing change so cities and states can…
With prison staff and prisoners testing positive for coronavirus in Washington and on Rikers Island, President Trump is now weighing a move to release nonviolent, elderly people from federal…
It’s not chaos: This is how debate in the Senate should look
James Wallner
From Roll Call:
“A lot of the dysfunction we see, not only with the coronavirus debate, but also more generally, it stems from a fact that there’s too much comity, too much civility, and not…
“National Task Force on Election Crises Releases Guidance on How to Protect Elections in the Age of COVID-19”
Jim Baker & Paul Rosenzweig
From Election Law Blog:
The National Task Force on Election Crises is a diverse, cross-partisan group of more than 40 experts in election law, election administration, national security,…
, Newsy
Jarrett Dieterle on Delivery Industry Expanding Contract Workers during Covid-19
C. Jarrett Dieterle
From Newsy:
Jarrett Dieterle discusses how the delivery industry is expanding contract workers during Covid-19 in response to high demands on Newsy’s The Why.
Event: Postal Reform and Covid-19 with Ross Marchand and Nick Zaiac
Nick Zaiac
From Taxpayers Protection Alliance:
RSI’s Nick Zaiac and Ross Marchand from Taxpayers Protection Alliance discuss postal reform and Covid-19.
Trump delivers Florida disaster declaration as jails targeted as COVID-19 incubators
Arthur Rizer
From The Center Square:
Prisons can be locked down relatively easily, but inmates are communally penned up for days, weeks and months and then released into the general public from the state’s…
Even in Crisis, Union Priorities Win
Steven Greenhut
With coronavirus turning our lives into a zombie apocalypse, most Americans have been fairly nonchalant as government officials grab the most expansive power that they can get their hands on. For…
