With the US government seemingly heading toward a potentially painful federal shutdown, a scholar explains why such events never occur in the UK.
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While a single shutdown is unlikely to push a government worker to quit, the cumulative effect of multiple shutdowns can lead to low worker morale and employee retention problems.
Shutting down the government won’t help reduce the deficit. Here’s what would.
States led by Republican governors generally had higher COVID-19 case and death rates in 2020.
Most pandemic policies have benefited those already best off in US society and ignored people for whom neither mass shutdowns nor reopening offer relief.
Canadians are living under a states of emergency, coping with a limping economy and social distancing as well as the stress of the pandemic itself. Many might be asking: when will it end?
The government shutdown provided a short-term version of what some activists have long wanted: A government small enough so that you could ‘drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.’
Trump is not the first US president to talk about border security, but he is the only one to make it an “urgent national crisis”. Here is a handy deconstruction of President Trump’s rhetorical strategy.
The government collects reams of economic data that are vital to the functioning of companies, policymakers and even families.
Two labor negotiation experts explain how a 2015 dispute that seemed intractable got resolved, with important lessons for the partial government shutdown.
The shutdown poses a very real threat to preparedness for future emergencies, such as natural disasters and disease outbreaks.
The current government shutdown is now the longest in American history, affecting about 800,000 federal employees.
Setting aside personal hardships for workers who don’t see a paycheck during the shutdown, the research enterprise itself loses out, too. And unlike back pay, this lost time can never be made up.
Because many Americans live paycheck to paycheck, the loss of even one can be a big financial blow for a family.
The government has been partially closed since Dec. 22, making it the second-longest shutdown on record. A finance professor who studied the 2013 shutdown explains the economic impact.
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Interim Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Political Science and Economics, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor of Finance, Northwestern University
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Professor of Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Michigan State University
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Professor of Law, New York University
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PhD Candidate, Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
