Kamala Harris’ Africa Trip, Data about Native Americans, and More

March 31, 2023

Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to visit Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia comes at a unique time for U.S.-Africa relations. A major priority for the Biden-Harris administration should be advancing commitments from the recent U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, Landry Signé says.

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The way the U.S. government currently collects, aggregates, and publishes race and ethnicity data can lead to the exclusion of more than three-quarters of Native Americans from some official data sets. Robert Maxim, Gabriel Sanchez, and Kimberly Huyser shed light on the issue and outline recommendations for policymakers.

The climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act could dramatically transform the energy sector of the U.S. economy, but the costs and the extent of new investment are highly uncertain, argue John Bistline, Neil Mehrotra, and Catherine Wolfram in the latest edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

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