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TikTok's fate in the U.S. remains up in the air, with concerns about national security and Chinese influence. Yet, almost no rigorous research exists to inform these debates. At The Brookings Institution, Sarah Graham, Lama Mohammed, and Joshua Tucker outline three data access pathways researchers could use to understand TikTok's influence and the challenges of each. https://lnkd.in/eFS2E_vA
The risk of occupational injury varies significantly across industries. That means occupational-injury risk changes with the occupational mix of the U.S. labor force. In a new paper, Richard Frank and Julia Paris find that projected growth in occupations over the next several years is concentrated in jobs with the highest and lowest rates of workplace illness and injury. They anticipate that violent workplace injuries will increase by nearly 4% by 2032 due to job growth among direct care workers and other service occupations. Read their new paper here: https://lnkd.in/erWk_cZG
In 2022, Congress reintroduced a corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT) as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. The intent? Address the long-standing concern that large, profitable corporations often pay little to no federal taxes. Yet in a new paper, Elena Patel describes how the new CAMT is unlikely to fix that problem. "While CAMT policies aim to ensure that these corporations contribute something, they have not fixed the underlying reasons why companies pay so little in the first place," Patel writes. Read more:
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You may know the NPR Planet Money pitch - give us any topic and we can tie it back to the economy. A listener, who is a nurse, asked why he keeps seeing his hospital run out of basic but critical drugs. This got the Planet Money reporters wonder: "In a market economy like ours, shortages are a puzzle. Laws of supply and demand should basically solve them. "So what is going on here? Why have the basic economic dynamics failed to solve this problem, and what can be done to fix it?" NPR's Sally Helm went on a search for answers and put together a great explainer as to why markets fail patients. I was glad to contribute to this wonderful episode, alongside CivicaRx 's Ned McCoy. #NPR #MoneyPlanet #DrugShortages #Healthcare #Pharmaceuticals #ExpertInsights
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