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April 15, 2019
Survey: Close corporate loopholes to better fund schools
While Texans don’t like higher taxes, they want the education of future generations to be a higher priority, writes fellow Mark Jones.
April 15, 2019
Mexico Turns to a Trusted Energy Partner: Mexico
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador “truly believes that if he fights corruption and lets good people run PEMEX, it will be fine,” said nonresident scholar Miriam Grunstein. “It’s magical thinking.”
April 15, 2019
U.S. Measles Outbreaks the 'New Normal'
Last year, health policy fellow Peter Hotez reported that 15 U.S. cities have high numbers of unvaccinated kindergartners. “We are seeing [measles] outbreaks in eight of those now,” he tells BuzzFeed News: https://bit.ly/2GmgihL
April 10, 2019
How bad could the NYC measles outbreak get?
"The problem is, there's nothing more difficult to contain than a measles epidemic," health policy fellow Peter Hotez says of the recent outbreak in New York. "The measles virus is the most highly transmissible virus we know about."
April 10, 2019
Insurers to open health clinics
Health economics fellow Vivian Ho joins Houston Matters to discuss Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans to open new clinics in Houston and Dallas as a way to cut costs. Listen to the full program: https://bit.ly/2uXqR5F