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Clark Merrefield

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Senior Economic Editor at Journalist's Resource

Senior editor economics & legal systems @JournoResource | Our weekly newsletter: https://t.co/hVIAwio3sw | @newmarkjschool alum | Recent work: https://t.co/CZYv07qWgT

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  • 2 days ago | wgcu.org | Clark Merrefield

    Unlocked is a new series focused on explaining U.S. federal government systems, structures, and processes. This SNAP explainer is part of that series, which is produced by The Journalist’s Resource and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, where JR is housed. In late May, House Republicans voted to send legislation to the Senate -- the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” -- with trillions of dollars worth of federal tax breaks and extended tax cuts.

  • 5 days ago | themandarin.com.au | Clark Merrefield

    For several reasons, public servants addressing climate change occasionally cite data from private firms that analyse the risks of severe weather damaging buildings, roads, and other infrastructure across both large and small geographic areas. First, those firms offer data at a level of granularity, sometimes down to specific addresses, that is unavailable mainly from federally funded and produced climate data. Second, some of those firms offer easy-to-understand risk scores.

  • 1 week ago | journalistsresource.org | Clark Merrefield

    Republish this articleThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You are free to republish this piece both online and in print, and we encourage you to do so with the embed code provided below. We only ask that you follow a few basic guidelines.   1 Unlocked is a new series focused on explaining U.S. federal government systems, structures, and processes.

  • 2 weeks ago | journalistsresource.org | Clark Merrefield

    Republish this articleThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You are free to republish this piece both online and in print, and we encourage you to do so with the embed code provided below. We only ask that you follow a few basic guidelines.

  • 1 month ago | themandarin.com.au | Clark Merrefield

    The opening months of President Donald Trump’s second term have been marked by announcements, executive orders and speeches that have upended many of the formal procedures and established norms structuring federal government operations for decades. Among these, mass layoffs of federal workers that have aimed to slash the workforce of cabinet-level agencies.

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Clark Merrefield
Clark Merrefield @cmerref
10 Apr 25

RT @ShorensteinCtr: Introducing Unlocked, a new series from the Shorenstein Center and @journoresource to explain the inner workings of the…

Clark Merrefield
Clark Merrefield @cmerref
4 Mar 25

RT @JournoResource: 4 things journalists should know when covering an economic downturn: https://t.co/ktgcL9ELJG #3: Mention the role @nb…

Clark Merrefield
Clark Merrefield @cmerref
4 Mar 25

Reminder that @nberpubs determines recessions, not presidential administrations. "... a recession involves a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months." It is not solely about GDP. https://t.co/KmS0qonPep