Harris Insights Week in Review: Week of April 13

This weekly media coverage round-up showcases how members of the Harris community are working to understand and make an impact on the COVID-19 public health and economic crisis. 

Recent News Stories:

• Health care and coronavirus: In video interviews with MSNBC and Business Insider, Dean Katherine Baicker connects individual health care access with population health in epidemics.
• Oil-producing nations deal: Professor and Deputy Dean for Academic Programs Ryan Kellogg discusses in the Chicago Tribune why rising oil prices hurt consumers instead of helping them.

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  Being a neighbor: Senior Advisor for Cultural Innovation and Advisor to the Dean Theaster Gates shows WTTW his studio space in a "Firsthand Coronavirus" segment, sharing his approach to community.
• The education crisis: Professor Ariel Kalil describes in USA Today how educational setbacks associated with the coronavirus will especially affect children in families with low incomes.
• Future poverty levels: In The New York Times, Professor Bruce D. Meyer notices that a prominent model for economic inequality after the coronavirus pandemic does not include benefits from the CARES Act.
• Environmental choices: Reflecting on Earth Day with Axios, Professor Michael Greenstone ponders whether the positive environmental effects of lockdown will cause a shift in mindset about pollution
• Laboratory shutdowns: Assistant Professor Fiona Burlig discusses her experience with coronavirus-related research difficulties in the Medium publication OneZero.
• State government during coronavirus: Center for Municipal Finance Executive Director Michael Belsky shared the difficulties of the coronavirus crisis on state laws and regulation of alcohol, debt grading, and the tenth amendment and state power with ABC News, Crain's Chicago Business, and WGN-AM, respectively.