#Policymakers

Visible

VisiblePlatfrm

We're glad you asked! Often when data is gathered it foes not take into account who is male and who is female, known as sex disaggregating the data. As a

Jeff Stein

JStein_WaPo

Just a few of the reactions on twitter tonight of how badly people are struggling to get unemployment benefits from their states https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/05/americans-hit-by-economic-shocks-confusion-stumbles-undermine-trumps-s

CBC News Alerts

CBCAlerts

Government documents show Canada's slow start in responding to COVID-19. Public health officials advised policymakers less than 2 months ago that the risk was low in Canada and mandatory quarantines

Paul Scharre

paul_scharre

As US-China relations deteriorate, both countries have fewer incentives to hold back from actions they've both had in their back pocket for a while.Two recent US actions indicate the possible

Sara Rankin

ProfSaraRankin

WE ARE MOVING WAY TOO SLOWLY. Seattle declared a homeless state of emergency years ago. Bold an urgent action is way overdue. Not just for now, but for our collective

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/5At least 17 million people are out of work. Millions of others are furloughed, facing salary cuts or cuts in their hours. In this time of need, banks & credit

Frank Chaparro

fintechfrank

Goldman Sachs says the stock bottom could be in: “If the US does not experience a second surge in infections after the economy reopens, the ‘do whatever it takes’ stance

Hafiz Noor Shams

__earth

When we’re in the depth of this recession, regrets will be felt. That regrets will signify the path we didn’t take. The gaps we didn’t plug. The priorities we misplaced.And

Rep. Vernetta Alston

vernettaalston

The Racial Justice Act gave North Carolina a historic opportunity to respond to racism and implicit bias in our criminal justice system. And it worked. Data showed that racial bias

Stephen Pampinella

StevePampinella

Quick thoughts on this excellent article from an IR/social science perspectivehttps://tnsr.org/2020/04/recentering-the-united-states-in-the-historiography-of-american-foreign-relations/ Bessner and Logevall provide an interesting take on a discipline

Anne Fitzpatrick

AnneFitz13

It seems like people are using the word herd immunity as a strategy without fully understanding the implications. Herd immunity is usually acquired through a vaccine because it takes usually

Per Axbom

axbom

1. I often see the belief that behavior and wellbeing isn’t affected unless personal data is harvested. But people are affected when a huge trove of general data is collected

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Social distancing in America began March 8-13. Earliest that could reduce deaths is Mar 26-31, so Mar 20-25 is a baseline for deaths before social distancing.Since then, deaths in states

Elbridge Colby

ElbridgeColby

Robert Kaplan & I write in @foreignaffairs that Americans should not see the necessary competition w/ China as primarily about ideology. Doing so will misconstrue the nature of the competition

Chris Tenove

cjtenove

Out today - a new report from @HeidiTworek and me, Trolled on the Campaign Trail: Online Incivility and Abuse in Canadian Politics. Published by @UBCDemocracy @ubcnews https://democracy.arts.ubc.ca/2020/10/27/campaign-trail/ Our analysis of

Anna Arutunyan

scrawnya

A great take from @SevaUT Gunitsky on what’s wrong with the fight against Russian disinformation. This is becoming a pretty serious problem, and it’s fed by three key mistakes about