67 Results for “Coronavirus Means”

Economist Darrick Hamilton explains why confronting the racial wealth gap is the only way to address 400 years of discrimination.

Chioma Agwuegbo of TechHer Nigeria, talks to Folashadé Soulé and Herbert Mba Aki about how the pandemic is impacting young people in Nigeria, especially young women, and how African youth are tackling the crisis.

If libertarians wish to maintain their self-centered fixation on their own freedoms without considering others, let them do so — in indefinite quarantine from the rest of us.

A Report From the Front Line

Austerity policies will slow recovery and should be rejected

Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.

Evidence-based answers to the main (policy) questions concerning the return of high inflation

Economist Gordon Lafer describes a race against the education technology industry to do what’s right for America’s kids

Contrary to pharmaceutical company claims, revenue from high insulin prices are going to shareholders, not R&D

“Just learn to live with it” policies subject children to an experiment with a systemic disease that does serious and lasting damage, warns former NASA and DARPA technologist

Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse

Billions living in insecurity and injustice is hardly a rational system.

Gilead’s shareholders want exorbitant profits from Remdesivir, even though it was the public that enabled its development.

Just before the crisis, European countries were designing austerity reforms that would increase inequality and reduce internal demand. Could they return?