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Documenting America's Path to Recovery Email Updates

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Documenting America's Path to Recovery


From April 2022 to December 2021, Ballotpedia offered email updates documenting the paths to recovery from the coronavirus. In this newsletter, Documenting America's Path to Recovery, we tracked and analyzed the plans for recovery put forth by states, localities, and others in a way that allowed citizens, policymakers, influencers, pundits, and the nation's reporters to engage in fruitful comparisons. You can view the full archive of these newsletters below.

Archive

December 2021

November 2021

October 2021

September 2021

August 2021

July 2021

June, 2021

May, 2021

April, 2021

March, 2021

February, 2021

January, 2021

December, 2020

November, 2020

October, 2020

September, 2020

August, 2020

July, 2020

June, 2020

May, 2020

April, 2020

Background on Documenting America's Path to Recovery

Last updated: October 25, 2021

Here are nine things we believe about America's path to recovery that guide our editorial decisions.

  1. There will continue to be variations between states in how, when, and why they reopen. There will be considerably more variation from one state to the next than there typically is in other policy areas.
  2. There will be significant variations between cities and other local political jurisdictions like counties and school districts. Some local political jurisdictions will be at odds with the state within which they are located.
  3. People (pundits, journalists, analysts, and voters) will judge the government by the actions it did or did not take on the path to recovery. By "the government" we mean all three levels of government—federal, state, and local—and all three branches—executive, legislative, and judicial.
  4. Political partisans will seek to elevate and magnify what they say are the failures of the other party/political persuasion and elevate and magnify what they say are the successes of their party/political persuasion.
  5. Regular people and voters will be looking for trustworthy and reliable information to inform their judgments. This will manifest in daily life with conversations between neighbors, posts on Facebook, and dinner table talks among families.
  6. Activities and businesses will remain affected, either by government requirements or new norms and behaviors, in 2021 and beyond.
  7. The decision-makers involved in responses will have limited information at their disposal. The possibility exists of a peculiar mix: An information void combined with information overload.
  8. The plans and arguments will be dynamic. Understanding them requires organizing the plans into a coherent and correct conceptual framework.
  9. How the recovery unfolds will be a major factor in future election cycles.

General resources

The chart below shows coronavirus statistics from countries across the world. The information is provided by Real Clear Politics.

Click the links below to explore official resources related to the coronavirus outbreak.


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