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What should communities do when a school closes for good? Andre Perry explains that, while some districts may not be able to afford to keep schools open, they also can't afford to have these properties sitting dormant. Municipalities can create opportunities to convert shuttered schools to meet neighborhoods' needs before outside investors do.
A roaring Sun Belt surge has inverted the demographics and politics of COVID-19. While some of the newly identified high-prevalence counties in the West are located in and around larger metro areas such as Sacramento, Calif, among others, the vast majority of these counties lie within smaller areas, William Frey notes.
Allowing the $600 unemployment benefit to expire could devastate the U.S. economy. In a new CNN op-ed, Annelies Goger, Tracy Hadden Loh, and Michael Gaynor write that the benefit expiration would have negative domino effects on the economy and the vulnerable Americans who rely on it.
