The Debt Limit Explained, Community Resilience in Mississippi, and More

January 20, 2023

Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told U.S. lawmakers that the country had reached its debt ceiling. Leonard Burman and William Gale argue that the debt limit should be abolished and replaced with a common-sense rule that automatically approves the borrowing needed to finance new legislation that affects the federal deficit.

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On the latest episode of Reimagine Rural, Tony Pipa takes listeners to Drew and Moorhead, Mississippi, where the country’s history of slavery and the civil rights movement set the context for these rural towns and their path to renewal today.

Brookings Federal Executive Fellow Scott Englund discusses the persistence of domestic terrorism in America, the vulnerability of U.S. infrastructure to attacks, and the need for imaginative counterterror efforts against a diversifying threat.

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