PLUS: The Complexities of Vaccine Distribution
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** Five Myths About the Paris Climate Agreement ([link removed])
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by Paul Bledsoe
Five years ago this month, negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed at a conference near Paris ([link removed]) to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.” But President Trump withdrew the United States from the accord, despite widespread opposition ([link removed]) from other heads of state and a sizable majority ([link removed]) of the American people, making it the only nation to do so. President-elect Joe Biden ran on rejoining the agreement, and he says the United States will do so on his first day in office. This tortured political controversy over the
Paris agreement is unique to the United States, and it can be traced in part to persistent myths surrounding it.
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** The Complexities of Vaccine Distribution: States Need Federal Guidance and Support ([link removed])
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by Arielle Kane
Ending the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States will require a large-scale vaccination effort. The good news is, vaccine makers have developed a vaccine in record time – almost exactly one year after the virus was first discovered, vaccines will start to become available.
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** Unemployed and State Aid, Not Stimulus Checks, Must be Priorities for Covid Relief ([link removed])
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by Ben Ritz
A promising bipartisan compromise ([link removed]) for another round of covid relief ran into two roadblocks ([link removed]) yesterday that threaten to derail the effort.
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** ICYMI: 'Targeted' Relief Need Not be Stingy When Stimulus is Needed ([link removed])
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by Ben Ritz
After several months of gridlock, lawmakers offered two competing frameworks yesterday for giving the American people another round of much-needed economic relief from the covid pandemic. The first is a $908 billion compromise ([link removed]) with support from 16 members of both parties in the U.S. House and Senate, while the second is a $553 billion partisan proposal from Senate Majority Mitch McConnell.
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** Podcast: How One Tax Might Make Matters Worse ([link removed])
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Colin Mortimer, the Director of the Center for New Liberalism, is joined by two special guests. First is Adam Hartke, the co-owner of a music venue in Wichita, Kansas, and the co-chair of the advocacy committee at the National Independent Venues Association. We talk about what it has been like to be a music venue owner during this pandemic, suffering the brunt of the economic fallout. Second, PPI's Chief Economic Strategist Michael Mandel comes on to talk about how an obscure tax cut that expires in December might make the recovery for music venues, bars, restaurants, brewers, and others even more difficult than it was already expected to be.
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** Achieving Value in Health Care and Increased Investments in Health ([link removed])
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Monday, December 14 at 10:45 a.m. EST
The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) is pleased to host the Colorado Business Roundtable ([link removed]) and the Colorado Technology Association ([link removed]) for a virtual discussion on the role that technology platforms and digital tools have played in empowering Colorado businesses and supporting the state’s economic recovery – particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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