Local Mandates Expand Hazard Pay, Putting Women and Girls Center in Africa’s Recovery, and More

January 29, 2021

While the dangers of working during the pandemic have gotten worse, hazard pay for most grocery workers expired months ago. Molly Kinder and Laura Stateler write about recently passed local mandates that require some large grocery, food retail, and pharmacy employers to provide their workers hazard pay, and how this trend may spread across the United States.

Women and girls have largely borne the brunt of the pandemic in Africa, and the virus has exacerbated existing social and economic inequalities. In her Foresight Africa contribution, Damaris Seleina Parsitau argues that women and girls need to be a central component of the post-COVID-19 recovery.

In her Blueprints brief, Madiha Afzal proposes a new paradigm for fighting extremism that is based on a top-down, country-level approach focused on education and equipping citizens with critical thinking skills to counter extremist propaganda.

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