ND in the News: February 2021
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The Washington Post
Postmaster general’s new plan for USPS is said to include slower mail and higher prices
February 12, 2021
“If suddenly some of your best customers quit putting things in the mail,” said James O’Rourke, a professor of management at University of Notre Dame, “or they decide they can do it faster, better, cheaper another way, then the post office has this huge infrastructure and the demand is not supporting all of it.”
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Mendoza College of Business
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Transitions: Wake Forest U. Selects Next President, 2 Presidents Named in City U. of New York System
February 11, 2021
Elizabeth M. Renieris, a technology and human-rights fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a practitioner fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab, has been named founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame.
Bloomberg
U.S. Child-Poverty Crisis Spurs Stepped-Up Efforts in Congress
February 09, 2021
Covid-19 pushed the child poverty rate to 16.6% in December from 15.3% right before the pandemic began, according to an analysis from University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer, University of Notre Dame’s James Sullivan and Zhejiang University’s Jeehoon Han.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
The New York Times
The Radically Simple New Approach to Helping Families: Send Parents Money
February 09, 2021
“Children are future productive members of society, and their total benefit to society is greater than their benefit to their parents alone,” said Kasey Buckles, an economist at Notre Dame.
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Economics and Econometrics
Associated Press
Brazil’s wealthy cause a stir trying to score quick vaccines
February 08, 2021
Some is out in the open, with the prosperous coordinating efforts that the government endorses, according to Roberto DaMatta, an emeritus anthropology professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Irish Independent
Republicans still in thrall to Trump as he faces into Senate trial
February 06, 2021
Robert Schmuhl is professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
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American Studies
USA Today
Surge of unaccompanied minors at border poses challenge for Biden administration
February 06, 2021
"It's really critical that the Biden administration live up to their commitment of fair and humane treatment of immigrants at the border," said Lisa Koop, associate director of legal services at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a legal advocacy group that represents immigrant youth.
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Notre Dame Law School
CNBC
More bubbles, less shorting. What the GameStop craziness could mean for the future of investing
February 06, 2021
“I do think that, to some degree, this herd Reddit movement is going to continue,” said Jason Reed, a finance professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Mendoza College of Business
The Boston Globe
Firefighters may be wearing gear that contains toxic chemicals, researchers find
February 06, 2021
Graham F. Peaslee, a physics and biochemistry professor at the University of Notre Dame and coauthor of the study, said the research appeared to corroborate his previous studies.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
Reuters
U.S. employment growth likely rebounded; more government money still needed
February 05, 2021
“The stimulus has to pass,” said Jason Reed, finance professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. “Whatever the payrolls number is, we shouldn’t forget we are significantly under the amount of jobs needed to get back to where we were a year ago.”
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Mendoza College of Business
The Wall Street Journal
Can Catholic Social Teaching Unite a Divided America?
February 05, 2021
Roosevelt called the encyclical “just as radical as I am” and “one of the greatest documents of modern times,” according to John McGreevy, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.
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History