Meredith McGehee on COVID-19 and preparing for the 2020 election
Sustaining Capitalism
English - June 03, 2020 06:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNon-Profit Business News Business News ced economics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting many aspects of American life, and its future trajectory is hard to predict. As CED trustees Bob Kueppers and Ron Klein wrote in a recent op-ed, “While we cannot know the state of the pandemic at the time of the November elections, policymakers and election officials must act now to ensure that COVID-19 is neither a public health threat nor a deterrent to participation.” Meredith McGehee, Executive Director of Issue One, joins to discuss the risks COVID-19 could pose to safe and fair elections and steps the US can take to prepare for those challenges.