The Congressional Response to COVID-19, Building Trust with North Korea, and More

April 21, 2020

In response to the economic impact of the coronavirus, Congress quickly passed a series of bills allocating trillions of dollars for stimulus and relief. Sarah Binder joins the Dollar & Sense podcast to discuss the politics of passing the legislation, its oversight and implementation, and what we can learn from the federal response to the 2008 recession.

Conversations around data science typically contain a lot of buzzwords and broad generalizations. Alex Engler cuts through the noise to explain what policy analysts should know about big data, language processing, and other methods.

Despite continued claims that it has zero cases of COVID-19, North Korea has acknowledged its troubled health care system. Annika Betancourt argues that U.S. medical assistance could foster goodwill and help build credible trust to strengthen future bilateral talks.

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