Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Black and Hispanic Americans at higher risk of hypertension, diabetes, obesity: Time to fix our broken food system

Richard V. Reeves and Faith Smith

Friday, August 7, 2020

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How Africa is tackling COVID-19

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Up Front

Unemployment Insurance Extended Benefits Will Lapse Too Soon Without Policy Changes

Lauren Bauer, Wendy Edelberg, and Jana Parsons

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Graduation cap on $100 bills, representing student debt

Up Front

Low-income households falling further behind on student debt due to COVID-19

Jason Jabbari, Olga Kondratjeva, Mathieu Despard, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Reports

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

The effect of Pandemic EBT on measures of food hardship

Lauren Bauer, Abigail Pitts, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Thursday, July 30, 2020

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Report

Using the Federal Reserve’s discount window for debtor-in-possession financing during the COVID-19 bankruptcy crisis

Peter Conti-Brown and David Skeel

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Ulrike Neveling 60-year old head of Accounting Department is pictured at her office at the headquarters of Rullko wholesale in Hamm March 4, 2014. Marie-Christine Ostermann is desperate to hang on to her older employees. There's already a shortage of skilled labour in Germany and a new draft law that lowers the pension age for some workers is adding to her problems. Six of the 150 staff at family-run food and kitchen supplies wholesaler Rullko say they'd like to retire at 63 this summer, when the new law is due to take effect. That's four years earlier than planned - a big worry for Ostermann. TO GO WITH GERMANY-PENSIONS/ REUTERS/Ina Fassbender (GERMANY - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - BM2EA341DLX01

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

COVID-19 and retirement: Impact and policy responses

Martin Neil Baily, Benjamin H. Harris, and Siddhi Doshi

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel look into documents during the first face-to-face EU summit since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brussels, Belgium July 20, 2020. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — July 2020

Friday, July 24, 2020

Economic Development

An Indianapolis partnership to provide loans when traditional banks won’t

July 23, 2020

Blog Posts

Africa in Focus

A social distancing reading list from the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative

Louise Fox, Lemma Senbet, Landry Signé, Amadou Sy, and Christina Golubski

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

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.

The Avenue

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

FILE PHOTO: Somalia's Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire addresses the Parliament seating where he was confirmed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: New funding to fight COVID-19 in Africa, Somalia’s prime minister voted out, and political updates in Mali and Côte d’Ivoire

Christina Golubski and Chris Heitzig

Saturday, August 1, 2020

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Joseph Parilla

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Lauren Bauer

Fellow - Economic Studies, The Hamilton Project

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Louise Sheiner

The Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Policy Director - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy

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Multimedia

High Fidelity, a black owned business on Melrose Avenue, displays a "Minority Owned" signed in the window with hopes that their business would not be looted or damaged during the riots that took place the night before in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Photo by Desmond A. Hester / Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Testimony

Promoting economic recovery for communities of color and low-wage workers

Camille Busette

Monday, July 20, 2020

Workers clean the windows on a high-rise building in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., October 21, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Podcast Episode

How the next recovery can revive upward mobility

Marcela Escobari

Managing the Future of Work

Friday, June 5, 2020

A man checks his phone while waiting in a long queue to enter a wholesale market to buy a cake for Mother's Day celebrations, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico May 8, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Podcast Episode

The future of global development: How the pandemic is upending development finance

Homi Kharas

A Deeper Look

Thursday, May 14, 2020

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Reports

Black Households & COVID-19: Impediments to Economic Security

Addressing another COVID-19 crisis: Corruption

Preserving manufacturing in the COVID-19 economy

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

Fellow - Economic Studies, The Hamilton Project

The Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Policy Director - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy