Africa is almost totally dependent on vaccine imports, producing just 1% of the vaccines it administers. Landry Signe says the continent must boost its vaccine-manufacturing capabilities, not just to protect populations from COVID-19, but to prepare for future public health crises.
The new child tax credit (CTC) officially launched in July 2021, but U.S. policymakers are already considering whether or not to extend it beyond 2021. Jason Jabbari, Leah Hamilton, Stephen Roll, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss explain how the new CTC gives families financial flexibility to meet essential needs and invest in their children’s future.
"Too often elected officials, policy analysts, advocates, and citizens hide behind the cowardice of highlighting the challenges that drug reform can potentially cause, while refusing to speak and think bravely about the comprehensive failures and harms perpetuated by current policy. Mr. Biden can no longer do what he and his predecessors have done: sit idly by, awaiting a perfect policy to replace the unmitigated failures of the War on Drugs," argues John Hudak.
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