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A New Deal During COVID-19: A Million-Person Health Corps?
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A Discussion on Black Lives, Protest, and Democracy
The Ash Center hosted a conversation with leading scholars and practitioners about the George Floyd protests, their place in the long fight for social justice, and what they tell us about the state of democracy in America today.
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Empowering Workers in the Fight Against COVID-19
COVID-19 was amplifying a fundamental democratic mismatch: the vulnerable, often low-income and of-color, workers who are among the most affected by this pandemic have little influence over decisions — in companies and governments — about how this pandemic was managed.
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On the Front Lines: Tribal Nations Take on COVID-19
Like governments around the world, America’s 574 federally recognized tribal nations were racing to protect their citizens from the coronavirus. Impacting tribes at a rate four times higher than the US population, the pandemic was testing the limits of tribal public health infrastructures.
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#CancelRent One Letter at a Time
As renters struggle under financial pressure brought on by COVID-19, graduating HKS MPP student Georges Clement is helping to stave off evictions
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Researchers Release Proposal for Fair Distribution of Response Funds to Native Nations
Researchers from Harvard, the University of Arizona, and University of California, Los Angeles today released its proposal for fairly allocating the $8 billion of Title V CARES Act monies earmarked for the governments of federally recognized American Indian and Alaskan Native nations.
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Voting In the Time of COVID-19: Can We Make It Work?
Speakers included:
- Kristen Clarke, President, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Joshua Kleinfeld
- Professor of Law, Northwestern University
- Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment
- Charles Stewart, Professor at MIT and Director of the MIT Election Science Laboratory
- Miles Rapoport, Harvard Kennedy School (Moderator)
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Research Critiques Allocations of Federal CARES Act COVID-19 Response Funds to Indian Country
Research finds that Treasury has employed a population data series that produces arbitrary and capricious “over-” and “under-representations” of tribes’ enrolled citizens.
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Mobilizing Voters On and Off-Line
2019-20 Technology and Democracy Fellow Laura Miller on connecting with new voters