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  • Op-ed: Recycling our cities: How policymakers can capitalize on the remote work revolution

    Op-ed: Recycling our cities: How policymakers can capitalize on the remote work revolution

    Nathan Varnell is a staff writer and first-year MPA student. Going on three years since the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset, remote work is quickly rendering the 9-to-5 office model obsolete. Although the unemployment rate has returned to healthy pre-pandemic levels, Gallup estimates approximately 56 million Americans are working partially or fully from home. This shift has shocked…

  • Medicare Price Negotiation: Next Steps for Healthcare Reform

    Medicare Price Negotiation: Next Steps for Healthcare Reform

    Patrick Carr is a staff writer and second-year MPP student. Signed into law by President Joe Biden in August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) updated Medicare drug purchasing policies to bring down costs without cutting benefits or reducing funding. Medicare will now limit out-of-pocket drug expenses to $2,000 per year, require drug manufacturers to pay…

  • Op-Ed: I am a Type 1 Diabetic. Here’s Why the FDA’s Menu Labeling Law Should Include Small Entities

    Op-Ed: I am a Type 1 Diabetic. Here’s Why the FDA’s Menu Labeling Law Should Include Small Entities

    Julia Vanella is contributing writer. She graduated from Trachtenberg with an MPP in December 2022. Personal Experience With the Lack of Nutritional Information at Restaurants  In February 2022, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes after a life-threatening case of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA): when blood sugar levels are too high due to the lack of insulin. …

  • Coping with the Far-Right: How Should the U.S. Handle Italy’s New Prime Minister?

    Coping with the Far-Right: How Should the U.S. Handle Italy’s New Prime Minister?

    Yaokun Shen is a staff writer and a second-year MPP student. The Italian Far Right The recent electoral victory of Giorgia Meloni and her party, Brothers of Italy, marks another significant far-right victory in Europe, and the most prominent in Italy since World War II. Meloni’s win has raised concerns for the future of the…

  • Where Refundable Tax Credits Fall Flat

    Where Refundable Tax Credits Fall Flat

    Patrick Carr is a staff writer and first-year MPP student. The publication of new data from the Census Bureau on poverty in the United States has bolstered a claim that policy analysts have been making since mid-2021: the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) resulted in a dramatic…