How Congress Can Provide Aid to State s, Moon Jae-in’s Opportunity, and More

April 24, 2020

America’s state governments are facing a fiscal crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If nothing changes, they will be forced to make cuts to critical public services. Matthew Fiedler says there is one way to prevent this from happening: aid from the federal government that is delivered quickly and at sufficient scale.

“Coronavirus was, in many ways, an opportunity for Moon to demonstrate his leadership skills and claim South Korea’s place in the world as a dynamic, technologically advanced, and bureaucratically skilled democracy.” Jung Pak explains how Moon Jae-in can use his new megaphone to advance his foreign policy priorities.

Though universities have not faced a major financial crisis during the coronavirus outbreak, finances could be in major jeopardy if the outbreak is not curbed by the fall. Dick Startz writes that the biggest risks come from cuts in state funding and drops in student enrollment.

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