Adie Tomer

It’s time for an infrastructure ‘boost’: Confronting utility bill affordability during the COVID-19 recession

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

A medical worker administers a nasopharyngeal swab to a man at the CORE Covid-19 testing site, a permanent testing site in the Queens borough of New York City, NY, June 25, 2020. CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) is a non-profit organization founded by actor Sean Penn, who originally started the organization in response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. (Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

State and local governments employ the highest share of essential workers. Congress is failing to protect them.

Joseph W. Kane and Adie Tomer

Monday, August 3, 2020

Will Congress deliver an infrastructure stimulus?

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Congress illustration

An infrastructure stimulus plan for the COVID-19 recession

Adie Tomer, Joseph W. Kane, and Lara Fishbane

July 29, 2020

13th year old student Jayen in her bedroom in front of her laptops during distance virtual school learning amid Coronavirus Pandemic in Broward County, Florida Public Schools. Florida began their experience with online virtual distance learning, amid the growing coronavirus pandemic on March 31, 2020 in Miramar, Florida. (Photo by JL/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Bridging the digital divide through digital equity offices

Adie Tomer and Lara Fishbane

July 23, 2020

April 25, 2020, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Kitchen staffs preparing meals for frontline workers at Pagu in Cambridge. Pagu is one of the first restaurant partners of Off Their Plate (OTP). OTP is a brainchild of Natalie Guo, Harvard Medical student, providing relief for two hard hit industries, Health care and restaurant industries. OTP, working with World Central Kitchen has expanded in 9 cities, working with more than 50 restaurants and 110 health care facilities across the nation and fundraised 3 million dollars since March. The organization pays restaurant $10 a meal to produce for frontline workers. The National Restaurant Association estimates that 3 million industry employees have already lost their jobs, and restaurants across USA will take a $225 billion sales hit through May . No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

To protect frontline workers during and after COVID-19, we must define who they are

Adie Tomer and Joseph W. Kane

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Big city downtowns are booming, but can their momentum outlast the coronavirus?

Adie Tomer and Lara Fishbane

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

UNITED STATES - APRIL 3: North Capitol Street and the New York Avenue overpass is pictured during the coronavirus outbreak on Friday, April 3, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Coronavirus has shown us a world without traffic. Can we sustain it?

Adie Tomer and Lara Fishbane

Friday, May 1, 2020

Economy

How COVID-19 will change the nation’s long-term economic trends, according to Brookings Metro scholars

Mark Muro, Tracy Hadden Loh, Martha Ross, Jenny Schuetz, Annelies Goger, Nicole Bateman, William H. Frey, Joseph Parilla, Sifan Liu, and Adie Tomer

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Woman

Trust and entrepreneurship pave the way toward digital inclusion in Brownsville, Texas

Lara Fishbane and Adie Tomer

Wednesday, April 8, 2020