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It would be a wasted opportunity if our political leaders came back again in six months without a long-term plan about how to fund and improve the system.
Data privacy is an abstract issue for most people, even though virtually everyone is at risk. Now that abortion may become illegal in some states, digital surveillance could take an even darker turn.
States have widely different track records on expanding broadband internet access. Here are the ones that could struggle to handle the federal funds coming their way.
Multiple amendments could make the law unwieldy, incoherent and even unworkable.
Whether you pay tax on your Halloween treat supply depends on which state you live in and how it defines candy.
The U.S. is broken up into 50 states, plus territories like Puerto Rico and Guam, and a federal district, Washington, D.C. Most other countries have smaller parts too.
Websites that crash. Appointments that fill up within seconds. Scheduling your COVID-19 vaccine shouldn’t be this hard. A few states have found a better way.
Getting pharmacies more involved could be a game changer, particularly for reaching minorities, older adults without internet access and others left behind.
Palmer has lost his challenge to the closure of the Western Australian border in response to COVID-19. But it still remains unclear whether the border closure was and remains valid.
States have been experimenting with more targeted approaches to slow the coronavirus’s spread. Two strategies stand out.
Slow, unreliable labor force data have consequences for out-of-work Americans and the economy.
We’ve compiled the key COVID-19 restrictions in place across the states and territories.
The pandemic isn’t just a health disaster. It’s a disaster for cities and states, where the money to run government that normally comes in every year has evaporated. Congress may or may not help.
A close look at Florida’s economy shows just how vulnerable the state and its population are to a pandemic, and some of the reasons state officials hesitate to take action.
Many of the public employee pension plans run by states don’t have enough money in them to make upcoming pension payments to retired state workers. The pandemic could make that problem much worse.
Since the state’s first coronavirus case surfaced, trained case investigators have traced the contacts of every person who tested positive. Here’s what else South Carolina got right.
States should only open their borders once they have eliminated coronavirus – and should only open them to states which have similarly achieved disease elimination.
What is a state’s balance of payments, and why do some pay so much more? An author of a report at the heart of debates over which states should get coronavirus relief funds breaks it down.
How and when the US economy reopens will look different state to state, and for good reasons. This Q&A explains why, and why some states are working together.
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Professor of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University
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Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
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Dean and Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Professor of Political Science, The University of Melbourne
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow at Victoria University and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Victoria University
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Associate professor in law and public policy, University of Oxford
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Professor and Neustadt Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University
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Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
