WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following news on May 21: By Richard Kogan and Paul N. Van de Water Some policymakers have cited the growing national debt in calling for pausing efforts to relieve the health, humanitarian, and economic crises stemming from COVID-19. But it would be unwise and self-defeating to let debt concerns deter policymakers from taking needed steps to fight hardship and to bolster and then revive the economy. As Greg Mankiw, ch more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 23 -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, issued the following statement: Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after President Trump announced his planned withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty, which promotes openness, transparency and surveillance of military forces and activities and was negotiated and signed under President George H.W. Bush and entered into force under President George W. Bush. * * * "Withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty without more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, May 20 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on May 19: Incoming University of Wyoming President Ed Seidel will be at the table with some of the nation's leaders in industry, higher education and research as a member of the Council on Competiveness, the leading national organization focused on keeping the United States at the forefront of economic competitiveness. Seidel, who becomes UW's 28th president July 1, was invited to join the council based up more PR

SANTA MONICA, California, May 18 -- RAND issued the following commentary by Senior Policy Researcher Shelly Culbertson: At a time when the pandemic is forcing people to stay at home and practice social-distancing, that is not possible for one of the most vulnerable populations--the world's seventy-one million refugees, internally displaced persons, and asylum seekers (https://www.unhcr.org/5d08d7ee7.pdf). Having escaped conflict and persecution, they now risk illness and death from the coronavi more PR