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Police officers wearing protective face masks stop a passenger to check his documents before entering the ferry station to go to Niteroi, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 22, 2020. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

How COVID-19 is changing law enforcement practices by police and by criminal groups

Vanda Felbab-Brown · Tuesday, April 7, 2020

People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at an Arkansas Workforce Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S. April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Nick Oxford

Labor Policy & Unemployment

Unemployment insurance is failing workers during COVID-19. Here’s how to strengthen it

Annelies Goger, Tracy Hadden Loh, and Caroline George

Monday, April 6, 2020

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State & Local Fiscal Policy

Who stands to lose if the final SNAP work requirement rule takes effect?

Lauren Bauer, Jana Parsons, and Jay Shambaugh

Monday, April 6, 2020

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U.S. President Donald Trump signs the $2.2 trillion H.R. 748 CARES Act coronavirus aid package bill in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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In administering the COVID-19 stimulus, the president’s role model should be Joe Biden

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

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A healthcare worker takes a break outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, U.S., April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

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Coronavirus lessons from New York and San Francisco

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

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Latest Research

People walk near the light rail in the centre of Jerusalem October 18, 2015. A surge in Palestinian attacks in Israel is raising concerns that the weakening economy could eventually be pushed into recession. Picture taken October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Israel

A growth strategy for the Israeli economy

Zvi Eckstein, Avihai Lifschitz, and Sarit Menahem-Carmi

April 2020

SF downtown, 5th St. and Mission St. had only three pedestrians crossing at a light cycle during the Shelter in Place order on March 17, 2020 in San Francisco, Calif. Paul Kuroda/SIPA No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Demographics & Population

Even before coronavirus, census shows U.S. cities’ growth was stagnating

William H. Frey

Monday, April 6, 2020

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U.S. Economy

Budgeting to promote social objectives—a primer on braiding and blending

Stuart M. Butler, Timothy Higashi, and Marcela Cabello

Monday, April 6, 2020

Drilling equipment is seen at the Sindbad oil field near the Iraqi-Iranian border in Basra, Iraq April 23, 2018. Picture taken April 23, 2018. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani

Report

What drives successful economic diversification in resource-rich countries?

Addisu Lashitew, Michael Ross, and Eric Werker

Friday, April 3, 2020

An artist works on a boarded up River Pig Saloon in Portland, Ore., on March 24, 2020. Yesterday Governor Kate Brown issued a statewide executive order to stay home except for essential needs as more extreme social distancing measures aim to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and flatten the curve. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

How local leaders can stave off a small business collapse from COVID-19

Joseph Parilla, Sifan Liu, and Brad Whitehead

Friday, April 3, 2020

Events

Webinar: What’s being done to address the growing US digital divide

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Webinar: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on COVID-19 and the economy

10:00 AM - 10:35 AM EDT

Webinar: Addressing widespread closures in the retail and hospitality industries

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

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Blog Posts

REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR Captain Brett Crozier, commanding officer of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, addresses the crew during an all-hands call on the ship’s flight deck in the eastern Pacific Ocean December 19, 2019. Picture taken December 19, 2019. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Huynh/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Order from Chaos

Why Crozier was correct

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen listens as U.S. President Donald Trump leads a discussion on immigration proposals with conservative leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Order from Chaos

On CVE, the Trump administration could have been worse

Eric Rosand and Stevan Weine

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Franklin's Forrest Crossing neighborhood has created a "Social Distancing Calendar of Fun." On Wednesday, some residents like Eli Ecken,11, plays Twister during neighborhood's chalk walk Franklin on April 1, 2020.Sem 1233

Education Plus Development

Playful learning in everyday places during the COVID-19 crisis—and beyond

Helen Shwe Hadani and Jennifer S. Vey

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

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Books

Front Cover: Divided Politics, Divided Nation

Divided Politics, Divided Nation

By Darrell M. West

2020

Cvr: Fateful Triangle

Fateful Triangle

By Tanvi Madan

2020

Cvr: The Iranian Revolution at Forty

The Iranian Revolution at Forty

Edited by Suzanne Maloney

2020

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New York City Police officer with face mask on Fifth Avenue during the coronavirus pandemic in New York City, NY, USA on April 1, 2020. New York City has become the epicenter of coronavirus in the U.S with over 47,000 cases. The pandemic has forced millions of New Yorkers into their homes as local and state government enforce another 30 day stay-at-home order to try and flatten the curve. Photo by Charles Guerin/ABACAPRESS.COM

The military, policing, and COVID-19

The Brookings Institution

Friday, April 3, 2020

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani meets with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Kabul, Afghanistan March 23, 2020. Afghan Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Resolving the Ghani-Abdullah impasse in Afghanistan

John Allen and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

March 17, 2020; Detroit, MI, USA; Work goes on inside the pathology and laboratory medicine labs at the Henry Ford Hospital on W. Grand Blvd in Detroit , Michigan on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 where testing is happening for patients to see if they are positive or negative for the Coronavirus COVID-19. Mandatory Credit: Eric Seals/Detroit Free Press via USA TODAY NETWORK

COVID-19: A moment for unity

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the leader of the Taliban delegation, signs an agreement with Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan, at a signing agreement ceremony between members of Afghanistan's Taliban and the U.S. in Doha, Qatar February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Ibraheem al Omari

The US-Taliban peace deal: A road to nowhere

The Brookings Institution

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Afghan senior politicians and members of a Taliban delegation attend peace talks in Moscow, Russia May 30, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Good deals — and bad ones — with the Taliban

The Brookings Institution

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Supporters of the National Socialist Movement, a white nationalist political group, give Nazi salutes while taking part in a swastika burning at an undisclosed location in Georgia, U.S., April 21, 2018. REUTERS/Go Nakamura SEARCH "POY GLOBAL" FOR FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2018 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY.

White-Supremacist Violence Is Terrorism

The Atlantic

Monday, February 24, 2020

Brookings Around The World

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