“As it is now, our national climate resilience 'plan' amounts to waiting for climate-related disasters to strike and handling the consequences afterwards.” With climate disasters already costing the United States trillions of dollars, Robert Litan and John Fleming say the Biden administration should prioritize strengthening the resilience of U.S. infrastructure on the path to recovery.
Last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government passed three laws to dramatically change the country's decades-old system of selling agricultural goods, sparking intense backlash by farmers and an aggressive government crackdown against protestors and some members of the press. Rohini Kurup writes that the government's attempts to stifle dissent and free speech signal a broader decay of Indian democratic institutions.
Where do the data on unemployment come from? What's the difference between being unemployed and being out of the labor force? Stephanie Aaronson provides a helpful guide to understanding various measures of U.S. labor market health.
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