News

Institute updates and economic insights on everyday issues. Filter by
Media Mention • Sep 16, 2020

How much worse off is America from COVID-19 than other rich nations? Much, much worse

Los Angeles Times; Steven Davis
Topics:  COVID-19, Employment & Wages
Media Mention • Sep 16, 2020

The shift toward remote work could leave blue-collar workers behind

CNN Business; Jonathan Dingel, Brent Neiman
Topics:  COVID-19, Employment & Wages
Media Mention • Sep 16, 2020

When a child’s first teacher is onscreen: In Chicago, questions about the payoff of virtual preschool

Chalkbeat; Ariel Kalil
Topics:  Early Childhood Education
Media Mention • Sep 16, 2020

One million Americans lost health insurance last year

Washington Post; Katherine Baicker
Topics:  COVID-19
Media Mention • Sep 15, 2020

AI could help rid health care of biases. It also might make them worse

STAT; Sendhil Mullainathan
Topics:  Technology & Innovation
Media Mention • Sep 15, 2020

Negative rates are off the table for the Fed: Economist

CNBC; Randall Kroszner
Topics:  COVID-19, Monetary Policy
Media Mention • Sep 15, 2020

With more people falling below the poverty line, a look at what benefits they might receive

Marketplace; Bruce Meyer
Topics:  COVID-19, Economic Mobility & Poverty
Media Mention • Sep 15, 2020

It won’t be long before jobless benefits in Mass. begin to run out

Boston Globe; Simon Mongey
Topics:  COVID-19
Media Mention • Sep 15, 2020

Unless the government acts fast, India faces deep, structural economic problems

Quartz India; Raghuram Rajan

Media Queries

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