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"We saw big increases in poverty across every socio demographic group. The biggest was among children: we saw child poverty more than double." Luke Shaefer.
Marketplace
"I see this as a key issue for governments worldwide to be tackling … In many parts of the world, the air pollution monitoring network is inadequate, so people just don't know how bad pollution is in their neighborhoods." Catherine Hausman.
BBC
"The government is getting some power, but not nearly as much as they have, say, in governments overseas… Some drugs can't be negotiated, because it's a small biotech company, and they're the ones that do the most innovation. The drug companies, none of these drugs are subject to negotiation until they've been on the market for 9 or 13 years, depending on the type of drug, and only if they don't have competition" Jonathan Cohn on Medicare drug price negotiations.
WNYC
"Additional economic sanctions against Iran would be one tool to help curb Tehran's financial and operational support to terrorist groups like Hamas, but Iran has over the decades proved adept at evading sanctions and using the black or illicit market to move commodities like oil and gas to countries like China." Javed Ali.
Newsweek
"The question is, how many errors are okay? What is our definition of accurate enough, right? It’s unlikely that technology is going to be 100 percent accurate." Shobita Parthasarathy on facial recognition technology in schools.
Politico
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