too, reflect its waning effect on day-to-day life. As of May 11, the federal government is no longer categorizing COVID-19 as a national public health emergency, and that means some of the policies and provisions adopted during the height...
telemental healthPurpose The COVID‐19 public health emergency (PHE) led to increased mental health (MH) concerns among Medicare beneficiaries while inhibiting their access to MH services (MHS). To help address these problems, the federal government introduced temporary flexibilities permitting broader ...
Actions in recent years underscore the Fed's ongoing importance and adaptability. These include dramatic shifts in monetary policy: from dropping interest rates to near-zero levels during the early pandemic period to raising them to multidecade highs to combat inflation, and then pivoting again with...
Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) was an emergency program established by the CARES Act to increase unemployment benefits for Americans who were out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Under FPUC, eligible people who collected certain unemployment insurance benefits, including reg...
…“The economy’s capacity would go down for a period of time because of Brexit, that would add to inflationary pressure, and we would have a situation, which is the situation we have today, where the Bank of England has to raise interest rates despite the fact the economy is going ...
a marketplace special enrollment period from February to August 2021, which increased opportunities for people to obtain coverage; and the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision that generally prohibits states from disenrolling beneficiaries during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Most recently, mark...
Judge Daniels’ order prevents the public charge rule from being implemented or enforced anywhere in the United States for the period of the COVID-19 National Emergency declared by President Trump on March 13. The court’s order covers applications to register permanent residence or adjust status ...
Emergency Powers in Response to COVID-19: Policy diffusion, Democracy, and Preparedness We examine COVID-19-related states of emergency (SOEs) using data on 180 countries in the period January 1 through June 12, 2020. The results suggest that ... M Lundgren,M Klamberg,K Sundstrom,... -...
MacGuineas noted that the emergency borrowing and spending put in place to fight COVID-19 was "necessary then, but not now," urging lawmakers to put in place gradual changes that reduce spending, raise revenue, and "put this country on track to better financial footing." ...
it would be useful to have some discussion of the current strategy. I assume the current strategy makes the funds rate target into a one-way downward ratchet until inflation rises well above two percent. Given the bad news first about trade and now about the Covid19 virus, the strategy has...