The Pandemic EBT program, which supplements family food budgets in the absence of school meals, has reduced food hardship for low-income families with children during the COVID-19 pandemic. As some school districts extend remote learning through the fall, the Hamilton Project authors call for an extension of the program.
William G. Gale, Christopher Pulliam, John Sabelhaus, and Isabel V. Sawhill consider the virtues of expanding the estate tax, including the potential to reduce the federal debt and limit growing inequality.
Mark Fabian explores the academic literature on well-being in relation to what the Future of the Middle Class Initiative has identified as the five pillars of securing a good life for average Americans: income, health, relationships, respect, and time.
COVID-19 and retirement: Impact and policy responses."While we are still in the midst of the pandemic and its full effects are not yet known, it appears the impact will transform retirement for years, if not decades." Martin Baily, Benjamin Harris, and Siddhi Doshi look at the economic impacts of COVID-19 on older workers and retirees.
Using the Fed's discount window for debtor-in-possession financing. A recent Hutchins Center report shows how the Federal Reserve can use its non-emergency statutory authority to substantially improve the functioning of debtor-in-possession financing markets during the bankruptcy crisis triggered by the COVID-19.
Medicare advantage for all? With COVID-19 prompting a re-evaluation of the state of U.S. healthcare, Stuart Butler suggests a variation of Medicare-for-all as a new guiding framework in the Journal of the American Medical Association Health Forum.
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