government policy

"Governments, public health experts, and citizens have disagreed on the most effective ways to respond to the COVID- pandemic. Every approach has to balance public safety with personal freedom and economic cost. As a result, leaders around the world face many difficult decisions. They put many controversial mandates and policies in place"--Provided by publisher.

COVID-19 has unleashed death and damage on American lives and livelihoods. There have been pandemic successes and failures in public health, the economy, and the development and distribution of vaccines. COVID-19 has given Americans the opportunity to learn from mistakes and leverage successes to do better next time.

"It's June's first day at Huey House, and...[she] can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now. Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door. Can he and June work together to oppose the government, or will families be forced out of Huey House before they are ready?"--Provided by publisher.

"The odds of us being alone in outer space are small. Maybe we've already been visited by alien life, but didn't even know it. What if those life forms are still here? Jump into some of Earth's most alien mysteries and explore the signs they may have left behind"--.

"From a writer and climate-change expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant big-picture reckoning with the reasons for our shocking failure to this point, focusing on the malign power of key business interests, and arguing that those same interests could flip this story very quickly, if a looming economic catastrophe doesn't happen first. Eugene Linden wrote his first big cover story on climate change, for Time magazine, in 1988. In the years since, he has written many more investigative pieces, for many outlets, as well as served as an advisor for nonprofits, insurance companies, and other businesses in the cross-hairs of the disastrous impact of global warming. Fire and Flood represents his definitive case for the prosecution as to how and why we have arrived at our current dire pass, closing with his argument that the same forces that have so confused the public's mind and slowed the policy response are poised to pivot with astonishing speed, as long-term risks have become present-day realities and the cliff's edge is now within view. Starting with the 1980's, Linden tells the story decade by decade by looking at four clocks within each span that move at different speeds: the reality of climate change itself; the scientific consensus about it, which always lags reality; public opinion and political will, which lag farther still; and finally, what he argues is the most important clock, business and finance. Reality marches on at its own pace, but the public will and even the science are downstream from the money, and Fire and Flood shows vividly how devilishly effective the monied climate-change deniers have been at slowing and even reversing the progress of our collective awakening. When a threat means certain disaster at an unknown future point, but addressing it means certain lost profit in the present, capitalism's response is sadly predictable. Now, however, the seasons of fire and flood have crossed the threshold into plain view. Linden focuses in on the insurance industry as one loud canary in the coal mine: fire and flood zones in Florida and California, among other regions, are seeing insurers flee the market, and others demand government back-stops-"climate redlining" as many call it. The whole system is teetering on the brink, and the odds that in the next few years we have another housing collapse, for starters, are much higher than most people understand. There is a path back from the cliff, but we must pick up the pace. Fire and Flood shows us why, and how"--.

"From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a . . . story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and the power of individuals to band together to overcome even the most cruel and unjust circumstances"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the debate over public and private education in the United States, and explores the topics of school choice, homeschooling, charter schools, education standards, and school environment. Includes additional resources.

A collection of articles that examine the issue of adapting to climate change.

"In June 2018, Donald Trump's . . . decision as president--the systematic separation of thousands of . . . migrant families at the US-Mexico border--had secretly been in effect for months before most Americans became aware of the . . . inhumanity being perpetrated by their own government. Jacob Soboroff was among the first journalists to expose this reality after seeing firsthand the living conditions of the children in custody. His . . . series of reports ignited public scrutiny that contributed to the president reversing his own policy. [He] has spent the past two years reporting the many strands of this . . . narrative, developing sources from within the Trump administration who share critical details for the first time. He also traces the . . . odyssey of one separated family from Guatemala, where their lives were threatened by narcos, to seek asylum at the U.S. border, where they were separated"--Provided by publisher.

"Anthology of curated viewpoints examining the politicized response to the virus in the United States, the rush in the scientific community to understand, treat, and vaccinate, and how science and politics can work together in the future"--Provided by publisher.