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Congress is Listening to Those Breaking Through

In-person meetings on Capitol Hill used to be the norm. Members of Congress and their staff would spend much of their days meeting with constituents, lobbyists, and other concerned citizens. When back in their districts, members...

COVID-19 Relief Legislation: What Oversight and Implementation of the CARES Act Looks Like

Contributions to this blog were made by Jeff Sadosky, Lauren Crawford Shaver, Sabrina Siddiqui, Jeanne Moran, Kate Jahries, Erin Van Gessel, Britton Burdick, and Kahla Haber-Brown. The bipartisan “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act” was...

Communications in the Time of COVID-19: Transparency and Community Relief

Contributions to this blog were made by Jeff Sadosky, Lauren Crawford Shaver, Sabrina Siddiqui, Jeanne Moran, Kate Jahries, Erin Van Gessel, and Elizabeth Kapolka Today, the U.S. Department of Labor estimated the U.S. unemployment rate will hit 18 percent by the end...

2008 vs. 2020: Lessons to Help Communicate During the COVID-19 Crisis

Contributions to this blog were made by Jeff Sadosky, Lauren Crawford Shaver, Sabrina Siddiqui, Jeanne Moran, Kate Jahries, Erin Van Gessel, and Britton Burdick In a recent FTP note, we looked at the parallels between the 2008 financial crisis and today’s COVID-19...

Past is Prologue: Lessons Learned from 2008

Currently, the U.S. has 140,904 cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. There are 32 states with stay at home orders. Last week, unemployment filings topped three million, the largest number recorded in history. Everyone is racing to cushion the economic fallout and...

Cannabis Policy is Not Immune to COVID-19

COVID-19 has had profound impacts on all sectors of the economy, and cannabis is no exception. In states where cannabis regulatory systems exist, we are seeing for the first time how the cannabis economy responds to economic turmoil and national crisis. There are...