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Forbes
Report: American Billionaires Have Added More Than $1 Trillion In Wealth During Pandemic
January 26, 2021
According to a study released Monday by economists Bruce Meyer from the University of Chicago and James Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame, America’s poverty rate increased by 2.4 percentage points over the final six months of 2020.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
The New York Times
Firefighters Battle an Unseen Hazard: Their Gear Could Be Toxic
January 26, 2021
And while some forms of PFAS are being phased out, the replacements have not been proven to be safer, said Graham F. Peaslee, a professor in experimental nuclear physics, chemistry and biochemistry at Notre Dame who led the study.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
CNN
America's billionaires have grown $1.1 trillion richer during the pandemic
January 26, 2021
More than 8 million Americans fell into poverty during the final six months of 2020, according to real-time estimates published by economists at the University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame and the Lab for Economic Opportunities.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
The New Yorker
Living with a Visionary
January 25, 2021
John Matthias, a professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, has published some thirty books of poetry, fiction, memoir, translation, and criticism.
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The New York Times
We Want a ‘New Normal.’ It’s Not in the Forecast.
January 25, 2021
Roy Scranton is the director of the Notre Dame Environmental Humanities Initiative and the author of “Learning to Die in the Anthropocene.”
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Department of English
USA Today
Janet Yellen, poised to become the first female Treasury chief, may be a calming influence in a divided Washington
January 25, 2021
“She’s a moderate and a centrist,” says Jeffrey Bergstrand, a finance professor at the University of Notre Dame and a former Fed economist.
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Finance
Newsweek
U.S. Records Worst Poverty Spike Since 1960s, Black Americans Hit Hardest
January 25, 2021
Economists from the University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame said the nation saw the largest annual increase in poverty in nearly 60 years.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Bloomberg
U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years
January 25, 2021
Economists Bruce Meyer, from the University of Chicago, and James Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame found that the poverty rate increased by 2.4 percentage points during the latter half of 2020 as the U.S. continued to suffer the economic impacts from Covid-19.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Business Insider
8 million Americans have fallen into poverty in recent months as government benefits lapse, a new study finds
January 25, 2021
A study by University of Notre Dame and University of Chicago economists found that 8 million Americans fell into poverty as government benefits have expired.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Quartz
A 2011 dictionary is reshaping the language of corporate reporting
January 24, 2021
Not all of these downloaders wanted to wring trading intelligence out of these texts, said Tim Loughran, a professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame; many are programmers searching for meaty data sets and documents on which they can train their algorithms.
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Finance
Today Show
How might Joe Biden’s Catholic faith guide his presidency?
Video
January 24, 2021
Interview with Kathleen Sprows Cummings, American studies.
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American Studies
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Newsweek
Labor Rights Activists Say Minimum Wage Proposals From Manchin, Romney Aren't Living Wages
January 24, 2021
Daniel Graff, the director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame, said a minimum wage increase is not only long overdue, but it would also be significant to states, like Graff's home of Indiana, that have not lifted wages at all.
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Center for Social Concerns
CNBC
Biden claims his $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan will cut child poverty in half — here’s how
January 23, 2021
Children are disproportionately represented among the poor, and their plight has grown worse since the summer, according to James Sullivan, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame who’s tracked poverty rates during the pandemic.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
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The New York Times
Why Kamala Harris and ‘Firsts’ Matter, and Where They Fall Short
January 21, 2021
“This sense of one and done, we showed we can do it, doesn’t presume a leader who is committed to advancing other women or people of color,” said Christina Wolbrecht, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame.
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Political Science
Catholic News Service
Bishops welcome Biden as president, offering prayers for the common good
January 20, 2021
Holy Cross Fr. John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame, congratulated Biden on becoming president, noting how he was encouraged that Biden began Inauguration Day by attending Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington along with House and Senate Republican and Democratic leaders.