Published:
May 13, 2020
A first-of-its-kind report released Wednesday envisions a different kind of Texas post-pandemic.
In the report, which was a collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs and the University of Houston’s
new Hobby School of Public Affairs, the authors proposed nine actions Texas should consider taking now to make the state’s economy and workforce better able to withstand disasters like a pandemic.
Former state senator and founding dean of the Hobby School, Kirk Watson, along with Steven Pedigo, inaugural director of the LBJ Urban Lab at the LBJ School, joined Texas Standard host David Brown to talk about the report.