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Holyoke Soldiers’ Home Study Targets Inadequate Nursing Home Staffing Standards
/in COVID Economy, COVID Health, Economic Opportunity, Featured, Press Releases: COVID, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity, rCOVID /by Editorial StaffStandards enforced at the federal and state levels are insufficient to address chronic staffing issues reported by staff and residents’ families at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, making that facility particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new Pioneer Institute research.
Kaya Henderson, Former Chancellor, D.C. Public Schools, on Leading Urban District Reform
/0 Comments/in Academic Standards, Blog: Education, Civil Rights Podcasts, COVID Education, Featured, Podcast /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard are happy to be joined by Kaya Henderson, the former chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools. They discuss the historic reforms Henderson oversaw, including increasing enrollment and improved test scores in an urban district that had been one of the lowest performing in the country.
28.9 percent of the Massachusetts workforce and 24.1 percent of the U.S. workforce have filed unemployment claims over the past eight weeks.
/0 Comments/in Blog, COVID Economy, Featured, rCOVID /by Greg SullivanData released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Workforce Development show that 28.9 percent of the Massachusetts workforce and 24.1 percent of the U.S. workforce have filed unemployment claims over the past eight weeks.
Time to follow the science, not fear
/in COVID Economy, Featured, Press Releases, Press Releases: COVID, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity, rCOVID /by Editorial StaffOver the past two months, we have all learned a great deal about COVID-19 and the efficacy of – and the new challenges created by – our policy responses. Pioneer Institute believes it is time to shift to a more thoughtful, science-based footing in our approach to COVID-19 policymaking. The following are principles for state and local public officials to consider as we move forward.
Where in Massachusetts is being hit hardest by unemployment due to COVID-19?
/0 Comments/in COVID Economy, Economic Opportunity, Featured, News, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity, rCOVID /by Rebekah PaxtonPioneer’s new tool, called “COVID Unemployment Tracker,” provides an interactive look at how economic shutdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are affecting jobs and lives across the state of Massachusetts.