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Labor, Business, and the Political Barriers to Climate Action
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For a brief moment in 1988, America seemed ready to confront climate change. Scientist James Hansen’s senate testimony on rising temperatures received widespread media coverage, a Global Climate Protection Act passed with bipartisan support in Congress, and even incoming Republican president George H. W. Bush spent his campaign discussing the…
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WTO Negotiations Could Soon End Exploitative Fishing Subsidies
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Open water fishery crisis is one of the greatest “tragedies of the commons. Although open water fish stocks are a public resource, governments have degraded their value by subsidizing fisheries. According to the World Trade Organization, governments spend between $14 and $54 billion on global fishery subsidies every year. By…
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Why Good Policymakers Should Check Their Moral Judgements
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Consider bans of the headscarf, which stem from a moral objection to the object and the value system it symbolizes. A policymaker who advocates for the ban might believe that it would be for the “good” of the women affected by it in opposing a patriarchal symbol. However, for the…
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Black Maternal Mortality Rates in Chicago: Why the Recently Passed IL 1115 Waiver Is Not Enough
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Sara Bovat ‘21 graduated with a MA in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Administration at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy . She can be reached via LinkedIn. Severe maternal morbidity is not…
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A Better Way to Vaccinate the World: Interview with Professor Michael Kremer
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Michael Kremer is a development economist and University Professor in Economics at the College and the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. A 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economics, he joined the University of Chicago in 2020, and has since founded the Development Innovation Lab, a research center which…
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GDP has Immense Consequences for Health Equity: Why Doctors Should Care
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Natalia Khosla ‘22 is a MS 4 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected]. During one of my medical rotations, my team and I were taking care of a patient stuck in a vicious cycle: a 68-year-old with heart failure,…
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Gender Based Violence — Can Self-Help Groups be Effective?
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Vivek Kumar is a 2021 Graduate student from the Harris School of Public Policy. His policy interests lie around gender based empowerment in South Asia. “Even if I work outside as a laborer and bring home 200 rupees every day, I will still get a beating from my husband in…
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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI): Let’s Move from Pamphlet to Practice
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Kristen Mathias is an Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Chicago. She can be reached at [email protected]. Daniel Cabrera is a faculty member in the University of Washington Department of Medicine and contributed to this article. The medical field has an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) problem that is…
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Resuscitation Rates Lower Everywhere During COVID-19
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Covid-19 shocked the US health system when it first arrived in 2020. The immediate direct consequences were obvious, but with such a dramatic event there will inevitably be many more delayed or indirect consequences of the pandemic and lockdown. Researchers are now studying some of these consequences. In June 2020,…
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What Can We Know from China’s First Legal Order of 2021?
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China’s role on the international arena has been rising prominently. Even with a pandemic engulfing the entire globe since early 2020, the country is still attempting to accelerate its global impact. On January 9, 2021, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that the new Rules on Counteracting Unjustified Extra-Territorial Application of…
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Are GrubHub and DoorDash the Next Vertical Monopolists?
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While much of the US economy limped through 2020, one sector saw enormous growth: food delivery apps, like Grubhub and DoorDash. Their premise is simple, in exchange for providing a payment platform and delivering the food, these delivery apps take a percentage of the revenue on every sale. Since the…