The effect of Pandemic EBT, the threat of an oversized global arsenal of nuclear weapons, and the future of online activity.
| The metachallenges of the metaverse While today’s online activity can be described as a 2D experience, the metaverse is a 3D experience that can utilize augmented reality, virtual reality, and persistent connections to create an immersive world. Tom Wheeler discusses Facebook’s plans around a metaverse and writes that the problems with the current online universe will simply metastasize into the metaverse if we don’t deal with them now. Read more |
| Strengthen US security through nuclear arms reductions “30 years after the end of the Cold War, nuclear weapons pose a far greater threat to the safety and security of Americans than is reflected in our public discourse. While the United States must maintain a strong nuclear deterrent as an important tool of U.S. foreign and defense policy, an oversized global arsenal of nuclear weapons makes Americans equally unsafe,” argue Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) and Steven Pifer. Read on Defense One |
| How Pandemic EBT affected food hardship To combat food insecurity in the United States, Congress implemented the Pandemic EBT program, which provided families with an electronic debit card to purchase groceries for the value of school meals missed due to school closures for the end of the 2019-2020 school year, the 2020-21 school year, and, in some states, the summer of 2021. Lauren Bauer, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach offer a preliminary analysis of the Pandemic EBT program’s impacts on food hardship. Read more |
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