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How COVID-19 Affected America's Schools
RAND surveyed teachers and principals to gauge how the pandemic has affected schooling, what supports these educators need, and how they are thinking about the next school year.
Middle school reading teacher Shayna Boyd prepares for the start of remote teaching in her home office in Chicago, April 8, 2020
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38 Million Have Applied for Unemployment—but How Many Have Received Benefits?
Unemployment Insurance may need substantial reform to its application process, but it has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic unemployment disaster. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, the new program intended for workers who are not part of the employer tax base, has not.
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Integrating Behavioral Health Services into Medical Practices Faces Culture and Financial Barriers
Integrating behavioral health services into physician medical practices raises cultural and financial barriers, but providing technical support and improved payment models may enhance the long-term sustainability of the approach.
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How Would a Public Option on Health Insurance Affect Costs and Coverage?
Interest in a government-sponsored health insurance plan with publicly determined provider rates is growing. An analysis of four such public option plans finds that lower provider payment rates would lower premiums. But the effect on enrollees also depends on tax credits. And changes to the number of uninsured would be small.
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New Tool Can Help Policymakers Manage Responses to COVID-19
State and local officials implemented a range of interventions to slow the spread of COVID-19, such as social distancing and school closures. As leaders consider lifting some of these measures, a new RAND tool can help them weigh both the public health and economic consequences of different approaches.

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COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from RAND
RAND research and expertise can inform immediate policy responses to address the disastrous effects of COVID-19—and help aid in recovery long after the disease stops spreading.
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Why the United States Will Need a New Foreign Policy in 2020
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States faced a growing strategic predicament: U.S. challenges are mounting and its international commitments increasingly outstrip its means to fulfill them. Since the pandemic, these problems have only multiplied. No matter who wins the 2020 election, big changes in America's foreign policy could be on the horizon.
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How Small Businesses Are Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic
Small-business owners are facing many challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. What kinds of policies might help them? What will they need to thrive once the immediate public health crisis has passed?
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Weighing U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq
Supporting a stable and friendly Iraq is in the long-term interest of the United States. This does not require continuing the combat assistance mission, but would mean maintaining a small force of military advisers to help train and develop Iraqi capabilities so that Iraq could defend itself.

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RAND Corporation Provides Objective Research Services and Public Policy Analysis

How COVID-19 Affected America's Schools

38 Million Have Applied for Unemployment—but How Many Have Received Benefits?

Integrating Behavioral Health Services into Medical Practices Faces Culture and Financial Barriers

How Would a Public Option on Health Insurance Affect Costs and Coverage?

New Tool Can Help Policymakers Manage Responses to COVID-19

COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from RAND

Why the United States Will Need a New Foreign Policy in 2020

How Small Businesses Are Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic

Weighing U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq

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