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Making Help Easy to Find

What to Know: Officials are predicting a rough week ahead, as the COVID-19 crisis continues to play out—in both public health and in the economy.

The TPPF Take: The Texas Public Policy Foundation has organized policy recommendations and data on a central webpage, to help Texans navigate this crisis. It includes our Recovery Agenda.

“There is a real threat of the cure being worse than the disease,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “As our health system continues to make progress fighting the epidemic, so should we be taking steps to get people working again and mitigating the worst economic effects of the shutdown.

Preparing for Recovery

What to Know: Anticipating a tight budgetary outlook, the city of Lubbock is freezing new hires and discretionary spending.

The TPPF Take: Every city and county will soon be facing a budgetary crisis.

“Lubbock is smart to freeze hiring, halt travel, and pause discretionary spending in the face of a looming budget nightmare,” says TPPF’s James Quintero. “Every other city should be following a similar path.”

Loving Our Neighbors

What to Know: Small businesses—the ones owned and run by our neighbors—are particularly hard-hit during the current crisis.

The TPPF Take: We must not forget our neighbors, particularly the “non-essential” businesses and workers forced to shut down for the duration of the outbreak.

“As this crisis is revealing, we need each other,” says TPPF’s Erin Valdez. “We depend on one another for services of all sorts, and judging which ones are essential versus which ones are not is always an arbitrary exercise. We depend on each other.”