APM Research Lab debuts new explainer series
APM Research Lab launches new explainer series
BY ALYSON CLARY | APRIL 14, 2020
The APM Research Lab is excited to announce the launch of Points of Reference, our new explainer series.
We initially envisioned Points of Reference as a tool to help navigate the vigorous policy debates that naturally arise during a presidential election and unfold in the public sphere. At the APM Research Lab, we feel that debates go better when everyone has access to the facts by which you can form and inform your own opinions.
A lot has happened in the world, however, since we first conceived of this series. The COVID-19 pandemic looms large in our minds and newsfeeds as we experience physical distancing and face an uncertain future. But now, more than ever, we believe in the importance of an explainer series like this. In its sweep across our country, COVID-19 has cast in a new, urgent light questions that would be pertinent anyway in a presidential election year: Who has access to healthcare? What is the value of education? What do we consider essential services and how do we protect the workers who perform them?
The presence of COVID-19 does not outweigh those policy issues, it makes them more acute and simultaneously more complex. We are here to help you make sense of that complexity. Throughout this series we will connect the data, sift the research, and bring public issues into focus.
What are you curious about? What concerns you? We want to hear your suggestions for future topics.