Pandemic Relief Funding for Child Care Is Ending. What Now?
Summary
In 2021, as part of a rescue package to combat the pandemic, the U.S. government made its single largest investment in child care, committing $24 billion to fund the sector that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called a textbook example of a broken market. The lawsuit is seen as a test of theories that Khan outlined in a now-famous essay she wrote as a law student, which argued that antitrust policy’s singular focus on consumer prices was ill suited to an era of dominant tech platforms. When the pop megastar Taylor Swift appeared at a Kansas City Chiefs football game last weekend to cheer on her rumored boyfriend, Travis Kelce, the team’s superstar tight end, her visit set celebrity watchers and social media wild. In 2020, Kashmir Hill, a technology reporter for The Times, broke the story of Clearview AI, a secretive start-up that built a powerful facial recognition tool used by police forces around the country. Kashmir talked with DealBook about her new book, “Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It,” which chronicles Clearview AI’s rise, and how facial recognition technology is changing our lives.
