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Once every decade, April 1 transforms into a pivotal holiday: Census Day. As millions of Americans fill out their 2020 census information, demographer William Frey highlights some key population trends we can expect to see after the survey is complete.
One-third of American households have reported experiencing layoffs or pay cuts, and the economic impact of the virus has hit lower-income and less-educated individuals especially hard. William Galston examines polling on the crisis and discusses how Americans are feeling about the federal and state responses so far.
Like many other populist leaders around the world—including Donald Trump in the United States, Jair Bolsanaro in Brazil, and Imran Khan in Pakistan—Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has mostly taken a dangerously dismissive and outright irresponsible attitude toward the coronavirus, writes Vanda Felbab-Brown.
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