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Thursday, Jun 22

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Hutchins Roundup: Tax audits, growing inequality, and more

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What’s the latest thinking in fiscal and monetary policy? The Hutchins Roundup keeps you informed of the latest research, charts, and speeches. Want to receive the Hutchins Roundup as an email? Sign up here to get it in your inbox every…

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Class notes: Safety nets and housing, trends in teen pregnancy rates, and more

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This week in Class Notes My next adventure! The American Institute for Boys and Men. Safety net recipients pay more for housing, but it’s better quality. Normalization or salutary warning? How teen pregnancy in a peer influences behavior.…

Wednesday, Jun 21

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Unpacking the Chinese readouts of Blinken’s meetings in Beijing

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded his long-awaited trip to Beijing earlier this week after months of speculation on whether his visit would be rescheduled after its postponement following the Chinese spy balloon crisis this past…

Tuesday, Jun 20

TechTank episode 72: Social media and teens

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Legislators across the aisle have recently linked social media platforms with increasing rates of teen depression, anxiety, body dysmorphia, and in more severe instances, suicide. As young people find themselves heavily engaged with social…

Fighting poverty with synthetic data

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If you have ever used a smartwatch or other wearable tech to track your steps, heart rate, or sleep, you are part of the “quantified self” movement. You are voluntarily submitting millions of intimate data points for collection and…

Friday, Jun 16

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Key enforcement issues of the AI Act should lead EU trilogue debate

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On June 14th, the European Parliament passed its version of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, setting the stage for a final debate on the bill between the European Commission, Council, and Parliament—called the “trilogue.” This…

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Research on improving teaching and learning often lacks a holistic focus—a new collaborative research project hopes to change this

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Over the past decade, it has become evident that although more children are gaining access to schooling, there needs to be improvement in learning outcomes. The recent Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) highlighted a…

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Building popular support for post-conflict constitutions: Lessons from Nepal

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In early 2023, the United Nations announced that the world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since World War II, with a majority of these being civil conflicts. Historically, ending civil conflict and fostering democratic…

States are leading the way in tearing the ‘paper ceiling’ and making good jobs available to workers without degrees

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Last month, Virginia became the 13th state to remove unnecessary degree requirements for hard-to-fill roles in state government. This trend of tearing the “paper ceiling” is being implemented by Democratic and Republican leaders alike, and…

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Latino representation in U.S. history textbooks falls short

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Math and reading scores on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress—known as “the nation’s report card”—raised widespread concern when they were released last fall. Just as troubling, however, is news that the average 8th grade…

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What we can learn from the effort to implement Biden’s executive orders on advancing equity

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Next week, the nation will celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the U.S. And with this commemoration comes an essential question: Are we making real and durable progress on racial justice as part of the…

Thursday, Jun 15

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USAID’s Policy Framework

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On May 3, 2023, the Brookings Center for Sustainable Development hosted a public event on the recently released USAID Policy Framework. USAID Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman presented the highlights, followed by a panel representing…

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The three challenges of AI regulation

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The drum beat of artificial intelligence corporate chieftains calling for government regulation of their activities is mounting: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 16 there was a need for “a new agency…

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Hutchins Roundup: Climate-induced losses, Russian oil price cap, and more

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What’s the latest thinking in fiscal and monetary policy? The Hutchins Roundup keeps you informed of the latest research, charts, and speeches. Want to receive the Hutchins Roundup as an email? Sign up here to get it in your inbox every…

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How younger Americans will impact elections: Lessons from the consumer marketplace

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How are young people reshaping the consumer marketplace and what should this tell us about the political marketplace? Understanding a few key elements of their marketplace behavior may help us understand something about their political…

What works in childhood education and how are we going to pay for it?

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On May 24, the Brookings Center on Children and Families hosted a private roundtable with policymakers, researchers, and think tank experts to discuss the state of research on early childhood education, its short- and long-term impacts on…

Wednesday, Jun 14

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Why states should step in when local projects miss out on competitive federal grants

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Place-based economic challenge grants offer regional leaders the potential for transformative local investments totaling tens of millions of dollars over several years—if their application is selected. But with hundreds of regions…

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How to drive US investment to Africa

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When it was established during the Obama administration, the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa—or its acronym PAC-DBIA—was an important initiative, and it still is highly relevant. After all, the body was charged…

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L.A. and other cities are recovering, but not their downtowns. Why?

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A fiscal “doom loop.” A transit “death spiral.” The “office apocalypse.” Since the traumatic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, these pessimistic terms have been applied repeatedly to the state of our cities. Analysis of census data from…

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Renewable energy should not be the next semiconductor in US-China competition

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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is America’s biggest and most significant national policy geared toward combating climate change. The legislation provides an estimated amount of $300 billion worth of subsidies over the next decade to…

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Teacher pensions systems are increasingly underfunded, making teachers vulnerable and salaries less attractive

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Pensions are an important component of total compensation for most employees but particularly for public school teachers. Teachers tend to have relatively low salaries but retirement benefits that are considerably more generous than in a…

Tuesday, Jun 13

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Nigeria’s industries without smokestacks are delivering better economic opportunities than traditional sectors

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Persistently high levels of unemployment have emerged to become a key policy challenge in Nigeria. Between 2010 and 2018, the unemployment rate rose from 5 percent to 23 percent. Worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy is simply not…

Friday, Jun 9

ChatGPT and health care: implications for interoperability and fairness

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Since its debut to the world, ChatGPT has sparked an immense interest within the health care community. It is an example of large language models that use deep learning algorithms to process natural language and generate responses to user…

Thursday, Jun 8

Survey: Principals say they need better-trained teachers and more resources to address student misbehavior

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Teachers and principals have long struggled to find effective ways to address and reduce student misbehavior—a challenge that has become more acute since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools across the country are reporting…

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Hutchins Roundup: Persistent poverty, retail good prices, and more

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What’s the latest thinking in fiscal and monetary policy? The Hutchins Roundup keeps you informed of the latest research, charts, and speeches. Want to receive the Hutchins Roundup as an email? Sign up here to get it in your inbox every…

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High mortgage rates are probably here for a while

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The recent increase in mortgage rates, which has made buying a house or borrowing against home equity more expensive, in part reflects a broad increase in rates on long-term U.S. Treasury securities. But the increase in 30-year fixed…

Wednesday, Jun 7

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Pence vs. Trump: Not the first time a vice president and president have not seen eye to eye

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Former Vice President Mike Pence has chosen to run against the President he served for the Republican nomination for president. In all of American history we haven’t seen a vice president run directly against a president he served since…

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How a neighborhood-focused Baltimore initiative is employing patience, partnership, and resident leadership to drive long-term change

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At the corner of North and Cecil Avenues in Central Baltimore sits the newly constructed home of a community-based organization, Roberta’s House, which provides mental health and grief counseling services to residents who may not otherwise…

Tuesday, Jun 6

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“We lost an opportunity to listen to you”: Why Macron is embracing Eastern Europe

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On May 31, 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech at GLOBSEC, a security conference organized by a think tank in the Slovak capital Bratislava, wherein he formalized his much-awaited opening to the East of Europe. Macron was…

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Speaker McCarthy: We need a BRAC commission, but not to tackle federal spending

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Last week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced plans to convene a bipartisan commission to tackle federal spending more broadly once the debt-ceiling fight settles down. McCarthy likened it to the commission used to identify unneeded…