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President Donald Trump speaks during a White House National Day of Prayer Service in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Washington.(Alex Brandon/AP)

Donald Trump’s legacy is truth decay

by Will Marshall, PPI President

Our country is reeling under the dual onslaught of COVID-19 and runaway unemployment, but there’s one person who’s willing to give President Trump high marks for handling the situation: Donald Trump. “I think in a certain way, maybe our best work has been on what we’ve done with COVID-19,” he mused in an interview this week.

Most Americans disagree with Trump’s generous self-appraisal. “Since March 20, President Donald Trump’s net approval rating (approval minus disapproval) for his coronavirus response has dropped 23 points, settling at a new low of minus 9 this week,” reports Morning Consult, which tracks public opinion on the crisis daily.

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Interactive Calculator: How Much Federal Support Do State and Local Governments Need?
by Brendan McDermott, Fiscal Analyst at the Center for Funding America's Future

PPI’s Center for Funding America’s Future has developed a tool to help estimate the additional aid state and local governments will need from the federal government over the next two years to compensate for lost economic activity.

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A Wrench in the Works — How Schools Can Keep the Coronavirus Pandemic From Derailing Their Construction Projects
by Tressa Pankovits, Associate Director of the Reinventing America's Schools Project

Many state governments have deemed school construction an essential service during the coronavirus crisis. This is a good thing. While New York, the nation’s pandemic epicenter, didn’t give school facilities projects the green light until April 9, states less hard-hit were quicker to make the declaration. That sounds like good news for charter schools expecting to move into new or renovated buildings in time for the fall.

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Democrats Shouldn’t Miss This Opening on Immigration. Trump Won’t.
by Dane Stangler, Director of Policy Innovation

To no one’s surprise, Stephen Miller wants to make President Trump’s temporary suspension of immigration permanent. On April 22^nd, in a very belated — and plainly cynical — response to the COVID-19 crisis, the president signed an executive order restricting the issuance of new green cards.

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by John Kitzhaber, MD, Former Governor of Oregon

In pre-coronavirus America, the Democratic primaries were dominated by a contentious debate over how best to achieve universal coverage. The pandemic—with its profound social and economic consequences—has offered us a poignant yet urgent opportunity to move the national debate beyond the narrow focus on universal coverage, to the larger question of how to address the fundamental conditions of injustice which underlie disease by focusing on value and reducing the total cost of care.

The urgency of this challenge is reflected in the disproportionate impact the coronavirus is having on low-income Americans, and particularly on communities of color—very little of which has to do with access to the health care system.

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WATCH: Reinventing America's School Project Webinar on Educational Equity for Latinx Students Under COVID 19

Eight Bad Ideas That Have No Place in Future Stimulus Bills
by Ben Ritz and Brendan McDermott, Center for Funding America's future

The enormity of challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, and the speed at which crises can take root, demand that our leaders act boldly and quickly. But the need for decisive action also gives leaders an unfortunate opportunity to “not let a good crisis go to waste” by slipping unrelated policies into must-pass legislation.

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A Roadmap for Recovery
by Ben Ritz and Brendan McDermott, Center for Funding America's future

Since the coronavirus pandemic reached America’s shores, Congress has passed four major pieces of legislation to address the growing crisis. Together, these laws have provided a powerful response to the crisis — but more still needs to be done, and leaders from both parties are beginning to consider what to include in the next piece of legislation.

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