Contact tracing requires significant manpower to track coronavirus cases. Millions of Americans are out of work. This is a perfect opportunity for a public jobs program.
Leif Wellington Haase
Leif Wellington Haase is the past director of New America’s California office and the former director of the Century Foundation’s Public Health Preparedness and Bioterrorism Project.
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Empirical Evidence
War with Iraq has now begun. And while no leader should expect wars to go smoothly, it is very likely that the U.S. military will perform well, that Saddam Hussein’s army will fall apart quickly and that many Iraqis will welcome American troops as liberators. Moreover, it also seems likely that troops will discover evidence […]
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Wrong Prescription
With President Bush’s State of the Union address, calls to reform Medicare — the federal health-insurance program for older and some disabled Americans — are once again back on the national agenda. The Bush administration is expected to soon propose a so-called premium-support reform. Under such a measure, private insurance plans would compete to offer […]
