Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
As of Dec. 17, 2020, over 66 million Americans have filed unemployment claims since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. After lengthy negotiations and a partisan stalemate, Congress passed the second $900 billion comprehensive pandemic relief bill in late December providing much-needed relief to struggling Americans for the first time since March. Meanwhile, 34% of […]
With a lack of leadership at the federal level, many of the major policy decisions responding to the COVID-19 pandemic have been left to the states. As a result, governors have implemented a wide range of policy responses. With President Trump and other Republican leaders seeking to downplay the severity of the virus, attitudes toward […]