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    COVID-19 Demographic Trends, Vaccinating 'High-Contact' People, the Iran Threat Network: RAND Weekly Recap

    Apr 16, 2021

    This weekly recap focuses on how the pandemic is shaping demographic trends, targeting vaccines to "high-contact" people, the Iran Threat Network, and more.

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    An Early Look at the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Demographic Trends

    Esther M. Friedman @friedmanEM, Andrew M. Parker

    Apr 12, 2021

    The RAND Blog

    Key demographic trends in fertility, mortality, and migration are responsible for shifts in the overall structure of any population. COVID-19 has affected each of these, with potentially important implications.

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    Trust in the CDC, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Russian Mercenaries: RAND Weekly Recap

    Apr 9, 2021

    This weekly recap focuses declining trust in the CDC, insights from educators about teaching students with disabilities, Russian mercenaries, and more.

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    Target Vaccine to 'High-Contact' People

    Timothy R. Gulden

    Apr 9, 2021

    The Detroit News

    Actively seeking out people with lots of contacts for vaccination could bring the epidemic under control much more quickly than vaccinating people at random. Vaccinating just 15% of the population would be enough to crush the epidemic—so long as it was the right 15%.

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    Supporting Asian Americans, U.S. Gun Policy, Climate Migrants: RAND Weekly Recap

    Mar 26, 2021

    This weekly recap focuses on how to support Asian Americans, the U.S. gun policy debate, the education “arms race,” and more.

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    Game Theory to Help the Vaccine Rollout, Abraham Accords, Telehealth: RAND Weekly Recap

    Mar 19, 2021

    This weekly recap focuses on how game theory can help the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, potential economic benefits of the Abraham Accords, telemedicine use during the pandemic, and more.

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    Will States Take the Wrong Lesson About Unemployment Insurance's Failings?

    Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist

    Mar 18, 2021

    The RAND Blog

    By shoring up all state-run Unemployment Insurance programs equally, Congress set a precedent that it will intervene to raise benefits at no cost to state trust funds. From the states' perspective, why hike taxes on businesses to maintain robust unemployment benefits if Congress will step in when the economy goes south?

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    Could the Bioweapons Treaty Be Another Tool for Addressing Pandemics?

    Daniel M. Gerstein @Daniel_Gerstein

    Mar 12, 2021

    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

    What might governments do to reduce the risk of future large-scale biological attacks or naturally occurring pandemics? Perhaps now is the right time to revisit the 46-year-old Biological Weapons Convention treaty and make it a better tool against future biological threats.

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    COVID-19 Testing in Schools, Family Caregivers, U.S. Entrepreneurship: RAND Weekly Recap

    Mar 12, 2021

    This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19 testing in schools, giving a voice to family caregivers, preparing for daylight saving time, and more.

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    RAND Staff Member Helps Get Masks to Communities in Need

    Mar 12, 2021

    Jessica Arana, a designer at RAND, volunteers with the Auntie Sewing Squad, a mask-making effort started by comedian Kristina Wong. Arana first donated to the effort but soon became an organizer focused on minority, immigrant, farmworker, and low-income communities.

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    Arts Policy During the Pandemic: What Are We Measuring, and What Can We Know?

    James V. Marrone, Susan A. Resetar, Daniel Schwam

    Mar 8, 2021

    The RAND Blog

    Few data sources exist for the labor market for artists. Of the sources that do exist, each measures a different piece of a larger puzzle. Those studying the arts labor market will have to grapple with which data source to use and how “the arts” should be defined before undertaking any analysis.

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    Teachers Lost Out on Professional Learning During the Pandemic. Here's How Summer Programs Could Help

    Elizabeth D. Steiner @ED_Steiner, Laura Stelitano

    Mar 5, 2021

    The RAND Blog

    For thousands of teachers across the United States, 2020 was a year of uncertainty. Many lacked access to their usual professional learning activities. Summer programs for students that also offer learning opportunities for teachers might help make up for lost time.

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    Vaccine Hesitancy, Sexual Misconduct in the U.S. Military, the Iran Nuclear Deal: RAND Weekly Recap

    Mar 5, 2021

    This weekly recap focuses on Black Americans' vaccine hesitancy, sexual harassment and sexual assault in the U.S. military, rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, and more.

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    Caregivers

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    Family Caregivers Are the Health Care Workers That Vaccination Plans Overlook

    Esther M. Friedman @friedmanEM

    Mar 1, 2021

    Route Fifty

    About 53 million family members and friends provide care to loved ones in the United States, representing a critical element of the long-term care system. The pandemic has made family caregivers front-line workers. They can't be left out of important discussions around vaccination priorities and how to minimize the virus's risk to those with compromised health.

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  • Teachers and Teaching

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    Teachers Quit Due to Stress, Peace in Yemen, America's Middle Class: RAND Weekly Recap

    Feb 26, 2021

    This weekly recap focuses on how stress leads teachers to quit their jobs, U.S. strategy in the Middle East, America's shrinking middle class, and more.

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  • Health Care Costs

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    Reducing Hospital Prices, Vaccinating the Most Active, Myanmar: RAND Weekly Recap

    Feb 19, 2021

    This weekly recap focuses on regulating hospital prices to cut spending, a COVID-19 vaccine strategy that prioritizes "active" people, what the Capitol attack means for security clearances, and more.

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Quoted

  • As global condemnation has mounted, China has turned to suing those who report on its actions, while also seeking to surveil, intimidate, and silence Uyghurs abroad by making threats against their families who remain in Xinjiang. Japan is the only member of the G-7 not to impose sanctions, putting it on the other side of a number of key partners with whom it has been growing closer in recent years.

    Scott Harold

    Scott W. Harold

    Senior Political Scientist

    Source: The Hill

  • Israel faces few constraints from the United States or other global and regional powers to curb its attacks on Iran. Even Russia has largely acquiesced to continued Israeli strikes against Iran and Iranian-aligned groups in Syria.

    Dalia Dassa Kaye

    Dalia Dassa Kaye

    Senior Political Scientist

    Source: The Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog

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