A Planned Kosovo-Serbia Meeting at the White House is Falling Apart. It was Always a Bad Idea
Kosovo, a major preoccupation for Washington in decades past, is back in the news in Washington.
Research
Identification and Estimation of Undetected COVID-19 Cases Using Testing Data from Iceland
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, international testing efforts tended to target individuals whose symptoms and/or jobs placed them at a high presumed risk of infection.
Rising student loan burdens and what to do about them
Student loans help many individuals obtain higher education that they otherwise could not fund, but concerns have arisen in recent years about the large number of borrowers that appear to be strugglin
Policies for a Second Wave
Although confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths are declining in the Northeastern states that have been hardest hit by the pandemic, in other parts of the nation confirmed cases are rising and deaths are
Four Levels of Power: A Conception to Enable Liberation
Many public leaders and activists—politicians, advocates, social movement leaders, and even ordinary citizens—seek to alter patterns of asymmetric power in order to achieve liberation from domination.
Disparities in Coronavirus 2019 Reported Incidence, Knowledge, and Behavior Among US Adults
Question: How do reported incidence, knowledge, and behaviors regarding coronavirus disease 2019 vary across sociodemographic characteristics in the US? Findings: In this survey study, the largest di
The Unemployment Pandemic: Addressing America’s Jobs Crisis
1. The unemployment crisis is severe. 2. Unemployment insurance has played a critical role both for the workers who have lost their jobs and for the economy as a whole. 3.
Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers
This article studies the impact of changing job skills on career earnings dynamics for college graduates.
The US is Officially in Recession Thanks to the Coronavirus Crisis
On 8 June, the business cycle dating committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that economic activity in the US had peaked in February 2020, formally marking the start of a recess
What a Successful Economic Recovery Plan Must Look Like
It was good news that the economy added 2.5 million jobs last month. But we are still only one-tenth of the way to repairing the massive labor market damage caused by the novel coronavirus.
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