Fair Compensation for Essential Workers, Yemen's Child Crisis, and More

November 21, 2020

Grocery store worker in New York City, NY.

How the country's biggest retail companies are compensating essential workers during the pandemic

America's biggest retail companies continue to earn eye-popping profits, but millions of frontline essential retail workers still work for very low wages and without the hazard pay they earned at the start of the pandemic. Molly Kinder, Laura Stateler, and Julia Du detail the risks these workers are facing and argue that while companies should compensate their workers properly, policymakers do not have to wait.

Yemen's children: A crisis within a crisis

Faced with the combination of war and a pandemic, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen has worsened in 2020. Yemeni children are the most vulnerable, with 12 million needing urgent humanitarian assistance. A failure to provide aid will be a disaster for Yemen and beyond, Omer Karasapan argues.

How the new Biden administration can control infodemics

In January, President-elect Biden will be tasked with fighting COVID-19 and the misinformation running rampant about the virus. Mark MacCarthy explains how the new administration and social media companies can work to curb the spread of false information on digital platforms.

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Trump's firing of Mark Esper. Michael O'Hanlon joins The Current podcast to break down the president's recent firing of Secretary of Defense Esper and the stability of civilian military leadership at the end of Trump's term.

What to know about Asia's new trade agreement. This week, 15 countries in Asia and the Pacific joined the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. On the Dollar & Sense podcast, Peter Petri discusses the origins of this massive free trade deal and how it will affect economic integration across Asia.

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