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Media Mention • Jul 7, 2020

Congress’s Covid-19 rescue plan was bigger than the New Deal. It’s about to end.

Vox; Bruce Meyer
Topics:  COVID-19, Economic Mobility & Poverty
Media Mention • Jul 7, 2020

Pandemic Aid Helps Make the Case for Basic Income

Bloomberg; Bruce Meyer
Topics:  COVID-19, Economic Mobility & Poverty
Media Mention • Jul 6, 2020

Where $521 Billion in U.S. Small-Business Aid Went

Bloomberg; Joao Granja, Constantine Yannelis, Eric Zwick
Topics:  COVID-19
Media Mention • Jul 6, 2020

America’s huge stimulus is having surprising effects on the poor

The Economist; Bruce Meyer
Topics:  COVID-19, Economic Mobility & Poverty
Media Mention • Jul 6, 2020

Editorial: Want to revive the economy? Fewer lectures, more personal responsibility.

Chicago Tribune; Austan Goolsbee, Chad Syverson
Topics:  COVID-19
Media Mention • Jul 6, 2020

$600 Federal Unemployment Checks To Be Extended?

Forbes; Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel, Joseph Vavra
Topics:  COVID-19, Employment & Wages
Media Mention • Jul 6, 2020

How school choice systems create unfair advantages

Fast Company; Winnie van Dijk
Topics:  K-12 Education
Media Mention • Jul 6, 2020

How a Covid-19 Vaccine Could Cost Americans Dearly

New York Times; Katherine Baicker
Topics:  COVID-19, Health care
Media Mention • Jul 5, 2020

Big data suggests a difficult recovery in US jobs market

Financial Times; Erik Hurst
Topics:  COVID-19, Employment & Wages

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Karen Anderson,
Senior Director of Policy, Communications, and External Affairs
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
5757 S University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637

Tel: 202.492.8269
klanderson[at]uchicago.edu