by Timothy Kanevia The Center for Growth and Opportunity
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
This essay is part of a symposium on immigration and economic recovery after COVID-19. We asked leading economists and immigration scholars from a diverse set of perspectives, “With the COVID-19 crisis fueling increased calls to create an insular world with fewer immigrants and less trade between countries, we risk both our short-term recovery and long-term economic growth. What should civil society and policymakers do now, or as the medical emergency subsides, to ensure that economies stay open and connected?”
Kaoru Ueda is curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, where she manages the Japanese Diaspora Initiative and the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection. Ueda is also the editor of On a Collision Course: The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century, a new collection of essays by Yasuo Sakata published by Hoover Institution Press. In this interview, Ueda discusses the history of Japan’s open-door policy to the West, the aspirations of Japanese migrant workers living in the United States, and how these issues impacted US immigration policy.
by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davisvia VoxEu.org (Centre for Economic Policy Research)
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
One of the most urgent economic impacts of the Covid-19 crisis is on labour markets. Widespread job losses, drastic increases in unemployment benefit claims, and the rise of working from home have dominated the discussion during the pandemic so far. This column presents evidence from the US, arguing that the pandemic itself represents reallocation of labour within the economy.
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas talks about the San Diego Unified School District closing K-12 campuses for the school year and all of the problems related to the closures.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson blasts the NBA Monday for having ties to China while being vocal about political issues in the United States.
Economist Thomas Sowell, 90, has just published a book that one reviewer called “a neutron bomb in the middle of the school-reform debate.” In “Charter Schools and Their Enemies,” Dr. Sowell released the result of his “apples-to-apples” study of public charter schools in New York City. The 23,000 mostly low-income minority students he studied who attended charter schools lived in the same neighborhoods and even shared the same buildings with their traditional public school counterparts.
Economist and libertarian conservative philosopher Thomas Sowell warned Sunday that the country could reach the “point of no return” if presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the election and ushers in the radical left.
A Texas man was charged with assaulting a U.S. Marshals Service deputy with a construction hammer during weekend protests in front of a federal courthouse in downtown Portland, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.
