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We can’t keep our schools closed
The initial mandatory closures of our schools, businesses, and other institutions were not sold as eliminating the threat from COVID-19, either to children or to adults.
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Stay-at-home debate reminds us about the importance of trade-offs
All public policy debates involve choices among competing priorities. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of those choices.
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Following the playbook
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Back seat drivers
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Crisis may drive turn to suburbs
It is far more efficient to alleviate traffic congestion — and carbon-dioxide emissions! — by telecommuting than by running half-empty trains and buses at the taxpayers’ expense.
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Giving us time to realize what’s really important
Months now into the COVID–19 quarantine, we’re still probably some time away from a new normal, however that looks. But the forced quarantine and slowdown has given us time to see opportunities, reflect on what’s important and learn lessons worth carrying forward. Family has taken on a new significance in all our lives. Moms and dads working from home while learning to homeschool and keep little ones entertained...
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Friendly skies
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State unemployment agency subtly introduced a different claims count
Last weekend, the N.C. Division of Employment Security quietly changed the reporting of unemployment insurance claims, resulting in a significantly lower count of claims activity since March 15. DES introduced a count of people filing claims and emphasized that number rather than the number of initial claims filed. More data is usually good to have,...
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How to protect N.C. energy consumers in the post-COVID economy
Energy poverty is a serious issue. Research shows that higher energy prices cost lives. In 2018 the U.S. Energy Information Agency showed that one in three families struggled to pay energy bills, and one out of every five families had to forego food or medicine to do so. That same year, Bjorn Lomborg wrote in...
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Stand and deliver
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