Racism in US Education, Electric Power to Fight COVID-19, and More

June 8, 2020

“If there’s a silver lining for education in the simultaneous crises of COVID-19 and police brutality, maybe it’s an increased public willingness—however fleeting—to take a closer look at our education systems and the countless inequities they inherit, reproduce, and create,” writes Jon Valant.

Gaps in basic infrastructure like electricity make it exceedingly difficult to respond to and recover from COVID-19. Rob Fetter, Anthony Fuller, Jem Porcaro, and Cyrus Sinai argue that remedying electricity access in health facilities brings us a step closer to ending the vicious cycle of panic and neglect in preventing deadly diseases.

Demographer William Frey has been mapping the spread of the coronavirus over the past few months. In his seventh update, he notes that high COVID-19 prevalence is still shifting toward less dense, less diverse, and more Republican leaning counties.

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