How much testing capacity is needed for effective COVID-19 containment? What social distancing measures might still be needed? To help policymakers answer these and other difficult questions, researchers at Brookings and Washington University in St. Louis created TRACE, a new computational model designed to inform reopening strategies.
“The past two decades have been marked by outstanding gains in girls’ education worldwide, with the number of girls out of school dropping by 79 million. We cannot risk rolling back this progress.” Rebecca Winthrop and UNICEF’s Robert Jenkins recommend governments and their partners take five steps to ensure marginalized girls, alongside boys, can continue their education.
National service is a time-honored American tradition, and in the current crisis, it is getting some renewed attention. Isabel Sawhill and Larry Checco write about a recent bipartisan bill in Congress, the Pandemic Response and Opportunity Through National Service Act, to give national service more support.
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