Moderate social distancing yields $8 trillion in economic benefits, study finds – Washington Post

A new working paper from the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics includes calculations to put a dollar value on all those saved lives. “$8 trillion is over one-third of US GDP and larger than the entire annual federal budget. Whether in regular times or during a pandemic, it is difficult to think of any intervention with such large potential benefits to American citizens.”

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A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign

“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”

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