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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

Workers place a China Mobile 5G sign on an equipment as they set up a 5G network base station in Fenggang, Guizhou province, China May 26, 2020. Picture taken May 26, 2020. cnsphoto via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

The United States, China, and the contest for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Friday, July 31, 2020

China wants to make it harder for companies to leave. They are hoping to move towards automation and smart manufacturing with their huge 5G grid in order to keep China cheap and at the center of global supply chains. Many of those supply chains they already dominate.

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Hutchins Roundup: Loan forbearance, skill biased technologies, and more

Sophia Campbell, Lorena Hernandez Barcena, and Louise Sheiner

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Fixing America’s payment system: The role of banks and fintech

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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

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How is COVID-19 affecting America’s rich?

Kelsey Wu, Marco Fengler, Thomas Mitterling, and Max Thomasberger

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

As Phase One of reopening begins in Northern Virginia today, a waiter in a face mask to protect against the coronavirus (COVID-19) serves diners seated outdoors at a restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S., May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Visualizing vulnerable jobs across America: A tool to understand your local economy and inform its recovery

Marcela Escobari, Natalie Geismar, and Dhruv Gandhi

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

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Visualizing Vulnerable Jobs Across America

Marcela Escobari, Ian Seyal, and Dhruv Gandhi

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Maria Ochoa, 50, poses for a portrait inside her home Tuesday, May 5, 2020 in Chicago. Ochoa, her husband and daughter have been sick with COVID-19 for two weeks. She believes her family contracted the virus from her husband's meat packing job in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

COVID-19 is having a devastating impact on the economic well-being of Latino families

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Edward D. Vargas, and Adrián A. Pedroza

Monday, July 27, 2020