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"This is not a good development and is likely to dampen the insurance role that remittances often play in the wake of disasters." Dean Yang on the disconnection between Afghanistan and global financial systems.
The Wall Street Journal
"Once these changes happen in the tax code, they tend to stick because they tend to be fairly popular among the populations." Kathy Michelmore on a permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit.
Marketplace
"By failing to recognize limits on the ability to impose on other cultures values that have taken many years to attain gradually in its own culture, the United States and its partners will continue the unsound habit of approaching problems by building up the wrong kinds of allies and armies—weakly modeled in America's image but devoid of the spirit that can only arise from one's own values and cultures." Scott Atran on the importance of values and spiritual strength.
Science
"We now have definitive evidence that food hardship is responsive to government aid. The effect is crystal clear. We could potentially be at the lowest level of food insecurity ever recorded, because of the government transfers." Luke Shaefer attributes low food insecurity to stimulus checks.
The New York Times
"I knew the Brazilian military very well. [T]he military was very subordinate to the civilian government and I don't think that has changed. I don't think the military wants to go in for good in politics. It would be devastating for them to do that. And if that happened, it would be devastating for relations between Brazil and the United States as well." Former U.S. Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky discounts the threat of a potential military coup.
BBC Brazil
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