Brief #93—Economic Policy
By Rosalind Gottfried
Many workers opt for public sector jobs lured by generous pensions and other benefits such as healthcare and leave time. Private sector work may offer higher salaries and some benefits but they are much less likely to offer guaranteed defined benefit retirement plans.
Brief #92—Foreign Policy
By Will Solomon
While not as omnipresent as it often has been, the issue of conflict with Iran should loom large in the context of the 2020 election. Indeed, it’s important to consider just how much more serious this issue has grown in the last four years. A central premise of Trump’s 2016 campaign was exiting the 2015 JCPOA— perhaps the single biggest foreign policy achievement of the Obama administration.
Brief #80—Health and Gender
By Taylor J Smith
As the US struggles to manage the outbreak of coronavirus, the US Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19.
Brief #104—Immigration
By Kathryn Baron
In Los Angeles a Federal Appeals Court ruled the Trump Administration acted lawfully in terminating the Temporary Protected Status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
Blog #19—The Corruption Blog
By Sean Gray
US Department of Labor governs worker safety, wage requirements and an assortment of other pressing concerns of American workers.
Brief #8—Presidential Campaign Update
By Iryna Shkurhan
Less than two months away from election day, Joe Biden and President Trump enter the final stretch of their presidential campaigns.
Brief #20—Technology
By Amy Swain
It was confirmed in October of 2016, then explained in 2019 by the Special Counsel Investigation led by Robert Mueller – Russia had interfered with the 2016 presidential election.
Brief #15—Criminal Justice
By Erika Shannon
On September 21st, President Donald Trump followed through with an Executive Order from earlier this month and officially deemed New York, Seattle, and Portland “anarchist jurisdictions.”
Brief #2—New Media Blog
By John McCabe
In a recent Sixty Minutes interview with Scott Pelley, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said that on January 28, before COVD-19 was on anyone’s radar, Robert O’Brien, the National Security Advisor, told President Donald Trump that the virus would be the biggest national security threat during his presidency.
Brief #96—Environment
By Linda F Hersey
Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden has rolled out a $2 trillion climate change plan that has become a hallmark of his candidacy.