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February 1, 2021
Proposed Minimum Wage Hike Gains Traction in Congress
How would President Biden's proposal to increase the federal minimum wage impact Texas? Child health policy fellow Quianta Moore and public finance fellow Joyce Beebe shared their insights.
Read more at the Texas Tribune. January 29, 2021
OECD Delays Are Imperiling Digital Tax Deal
If the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development fails to reach a meaningful breakthrough on the digital tax overhaul, global growth could stall. Public finance fellow Joyce Beebe explained in an article for Law360.
January 29, 2021
OP-ED: Something Texans Can Agree on - George Floyd Act
Criminal justice reforms that address systematic racial inequality in Texas have broad-based support — from men and women, across racial and ethnic groups and across generations — suggesting "this is not a red vs. blue issue or one pitting rural and suburban Texans against urban residents. Texans support these proposed reforms," wrote political science fellow Mark Jones in a co-authored commentary.
Read more at the Houston Chronicle (subscription required). January 29, 2021
Texas' Low Vaccine Rates Have High Consequences
With a relatively low number of vaccinations per capita in Texas, there will be more new COVID-19 cases, warned health economics fellow Vivian Ho. "There is the health consequence, and there’s the economic consequence."
Ho holds the James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics.
Read more at the Houston Chronicle. January 27, 2021
Moore Named to Endowed Fellowship
Congratulations to fellow Quianta Moore, who has been named the first Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy. The Huffington Foundation gifted the Baker Institute $4 million to endow Moore and advance the institute’s Child Health Policy Program.
Learn more here.