What should Massachusetts learn from COVID? Lawmakers to discuss state’s future in hearing Tuesday MassLive.com 2 hrs ago © Steph Solis | ssolis@masslive.com/masslive.com/TNS Massachusetts State House
The so-called “new normal” ahead of Massachusetts raises questions about telework, health care and housing that lawmakers say they want to address before it’s too late.
Chief among those concerns for some lawmakers and policy experts is the “digital divide” that persists in parts of Massachusetts. Lawmakers serving on the Senate Committee on Reimagining Massachusetts Post-Pandemic Resiliency plan to dive into technological disparities across the state its first hearing 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday.
What should Massachusetts learn from COVID? Lawmakers to discuss state s future in hearing Tuesday
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Post-pandemic resiliency committee, chaired by Hinds, to hold first meeting Tuesday
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Why much more coronavirus relief is needed
Government aid on a large scale is needed to help Americans facing deep financial hardship because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to experts from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
In a February 18, 2021 article in The Conversation, three experts from the Department of Health Policy and Management Mary Findling, research associate, John Benson, senior research scientist, and Robert Blendon, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, emeritus wrote that public opinion surveys they conducted last summer show that, despite trillions of dollars in government assistance, “the aid didn’t put much of a dent into the financial problems faced by families earning less than $100,000.” They added, “Many people were struggling and still are just to pay for basic necessities, like food and rent.”
Internal CDC report says racism is making COVID-19 deadlier for Black Americans
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