Robotic rulemaking, missing workers from America’s labor force, and the forgotten legacy of the Iraq invasion.
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The Brookings Brief

April 5, 2023

Supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr protest against corruption inside the parliament building in Baghdad
Corruption is the forgotten legacy of the Iraq invasion
 

Iraq war reconstruction efforts laid a foundation of public-sector corruption that the country is still struggling to address. Reva Dhingra and Marsin Alshamary explain how the influx of aid after 2003 kick-started the current crisis and discuss what can be done to alleviate the situation.

 

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Who’s missing from the post-pandemic labor force?
 

Has the U.S. labor force recovered to where we thought it would be in the absence of the pandemic? Lauren Bauer, Wendy Edelberg, Sara Estep, and Brad Hershbein find that the country’s labor force is about 900,000 people smaller than one would have expected, primarily because of deaths related to COVID-19 and reduced immigration.

 
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Robotic rulemaking
 

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT has sparked conversations about the technology’s role in writing legal documents, student essays, poems, and beyond. In new research, Bridget C. E. Dooling and Mark Febrizio focus on another important area that AI will likely touch: U.S. rulemaking.

 

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