The Impact of the Pandemic on Native American Communities

April 20, 2020, Video. "Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Program Director Megan Hill talks to Project Lead Joseph Kalt, Ford Foundation Professor (Emeritus) of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, about the impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on American Indian nations. Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development researchers recently released the preliminary results of a study on the impact of the COVID‐19 crisis on the economies and governments of the country’s 574 federally‐recognized American Indian nations. Writing to Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin, researchers Randall Akee, Eric Henson, Miriam Jorgensen, and Joseph Kalt report that the COVID‐19 crisis poses an immediate threat to three decades of steady improvement in economic conditions across Indian Country."