COVID-19coronavirusdisaster lawpreparedness and responsefederalismpublic healthWhen the first suspected human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus was reported in January 2020, the United States had in place an elaborate set of pSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Deaths attributable to COVID-19 were defined by each department of corrections based on the determination of the departments of corrections or external medical examiners. COVID-19 case rates and deaths for the states were obtained for the same period from the US Centers for Disease Control and ...
to be mainly a Japanese phenomenon) in the United States. …The hit to the overall economy comes in other forms, too: inefficient markets that no longer deploy money carefully to their most productive uses, large corporations swallowing smaller competitors and deploying lobbyists to bend government...
Businesses could be spared billions of dollars of higher taxes in coming years — potentially freeing up money to spend on employees or invest in their operations — as a result of federal coronavirus aid flowing to the states. Governors and lawmakers in
But Republicans have expressed concern that cash-strapped states would use the money to backfill their budgets or address other priorities, like pension systems. "Florida has made the tough choices that New York has refused to make for decades and can get through this crisis without a bailout,...
The federal government is no longer allocating vaccine doses to states based on population, but rather the states that vaccinate the quickest and which have the largest older populations will get doses first. As for grandparents Flyn and Pete Naumchik of Los Gatos, they're just waiting ...
COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails in the United States JAMA Internal Medicine Viewpoint August 1, 2020 This Viewpoint describes the importance of minimizing COVID-19 transmission in prisons and jails and details policies and programs for doing so. ...
Go to the COVID-19 DATA HUB See the latest public government data trackers capturing the way federal, state, and local governments are visualizing the spread of COVID-19 Featured Viz What is the state of unemployment in the U.S.?
The Fed could initiateopen market operations(OMO), where it buys or borrows Treasury bills from commercial banks to inject money. The central bank will add cash to the accounts, called bank reserves, that banks are required to keep. That increases the money supply. On the other hand, if th...
TheFederal Open Market Committee (FOMC)is the Fed's monetary policy-making body and manages the country's money supply. It is made up of the seven members of the Fed's board of governors, the president of the New York Fed, and four of the remaining 11 regional Fed presidents, who serv...