Elizabeth Ross is senior producer for Innovation Hub. For many years, she was WGBH's producer for the national news radio program, "The Takeaway, " a co-production with WNYC and PRI. Elizabeth's work has aired on PRI's "The World," NPR and the BBC. She also collaborated with The GroundTruth Project, reporting on local stories for WGBH News that complemented GroundTruth's international reporting.
Elizabeth grew up across the pond in the United Kingdom and began her journalism career as a BBC Regional News Trainee based in Wales. She was a producer at the BBC World Service for the show "East Asia Today" and a freelance producer and reporter for BBC Radio 4's "The World Tonight."
A Social Security benefit for the nation’s neediest kids would virtually eradicate poverty for children, says one leading economist.
Why many of us lose when the wealthiest move out of high-tax cities.
COVID-19 has turned our world upside down. It’s also created a moment to turn things right side up.
The US has the world’s largest economy, but for how much longer?
What happens when tech influences every aspect of our lives — even who we meet, and what our families look like?
In recent weeks, many states have seen significant increases in COVID-19 cases. What will it take to change the trajectory?
School’s out for summer, but the educational losses caused by the coronavirus are only just beginning to be understood.
Could the US become a so-called “competitive authoritarian regime” which only bears the “outer look of democracy?”
In the midst of a pandemic, governors around the country have been reopening local economies and causing concern for many health experts. And in the rush to get back to business, governors are not meeting criteria to keep people safe.
The coronavirus pandemic has been compared to the Great Depression and the Second World War, in terms of the threat it poses to democracy. Geopolitical risk analyst Ian Bremmer doesn’t think the crisis will usher in a new world order, but he believes it will intensify and speed up trends that many have worried about for years.