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Rural hospitals, represented by green dots, stretch across mid- to southern Arkansas counties. Rural hospitals in Arkansas continue to expl…

Christen Linke Young explores how state policymakers could consider applying an inflation rebate to lower drug prices.

How can more eligible families fully use their WIC benefits? In this interview, Dani Lopez of Lulo shares how their tech platform is helping increase redemption, reduce waste, and ensure healthy food access with dignity.

Misinformation around nutrition and health is rampant. Jonathan Kung talks about how we can use social media to combat it.

An excerpt from Silent No Longer on how disability services commodify and devalue the humanity of people with disabilities.

Tyler Malone and Tony Pipa discuss the role of rural hospitals being the anchors for community life and economic development.

Editor’s note: The paper summarized here is part of the fall 2025 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the leading conference series and journal in economics for timely, cutting-edge research about real-world policy issues. Research findings are presented in a clear and accessible style to maximize their impact on economic understanding and policymaking. The editors are Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellows Janice Eberly and Jón Steinsson. See the fall 2025 BPEA event page to watch paper presentations and read summaries of all the papers from this edition. Submit a proposal to present at a future BPEA conference here. Climate change is already imposing modest to significant costs on U.S. households, especially affecting poorer families and households in the Gulf Coast, Florida, and some parts of the West, suggests a paper discussed at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) conference on September 26. The paper examines some, but not all, costs of climate change under two different scenarios that vary in terms of what share of weather variability is attributed to climate change. “We find sizable costs to U.S. households from recent climate change patterns, ranging from $220 to $570 each year,” write the authors, Kimberly A. Clausing of the University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, and Christopher R. Knittel and Catherine Wolfram of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. Clausing, in an interview with The Brooking Institution, said the less-conservative scenario may be “closer to the truth.” Under it, the authors write, 10% of counties “have annual household costs exceeding $880 … [and] there are large swathes of the country … where damages are concentrated and exceed $1,000 per household per year.” The paper focused on two types of climate change costs: the effects on household budgets and the effects on mortality from extreme…

Paid leave benefits protected workers against the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and helped fill a longstanding gap in U.S. social infrastructure.