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Category Archives: Policy
COVID-19 Death Rates by Country and U.S. State
A good, evidence-based chart brings clarity to complex situations. The New York Times frequently finds that sweet spot.
Click through to the interactive version of this chart, being updated daily, on the NYTimes website.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-by-country.html
Human Impact on Pollution
The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity for a number of both natural and public policy experiments, which should—albeit are unlikely to—inform public policy going forward.
Does human activity impact the environment? Yes.
Can that effect be mitigated? Yes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2020/03/22/video-watch-from-space-as-air-pollution-vanishes-over-china-during-coronavirus-lockdown-then-returns/
H.R.2536 – Computer Science Education Act of 2013
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to strengthen elementary and secondary computer science education, and for other purposes.
https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2536