ND in the News: March 2021
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Marketplace
How recipients will spend COVID relief payments depends on their income
Audio
March 26, 2021
The pandemic has affected Americans in different income brackets differently: People who worked low-wage service jobs before the pandemic are most likely to be in serious financial distress now, said Notre Dame economist James Sullivan.
ND Experts
Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Associated Press
WeWork stock offer comes amid doubtful need for office space
March 26, 2021
“You’re going to find they can accommodate most pop-up meetings inside their office, so they don’t have to go to WeWork,” said Patrick Dore, a former Notre Dame real estate law professor who has handled office space deals in Manhattan.
NBC News
America's immigration impasse is self-inflicted. It doesn't have to be.
March 26, 2021
“People are going to move — as they are all around the world — where they think they can find places to better feed their children. That’s the bottom line, and that’s the history of migration to the United States,” said Luis Fraga, director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Department of Political Science
MarketWatch
Big Tech CEOs pounded over social media’s role in promoting misinformation, extremism
March 25, 2021
“If Jan. 6 wasn’t enough to get them to acknowledge their role, it’s unclear anything ever will be,” Elizabeth Renieris, founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame, told MarketWatch.
Foreign Policy
Beijing’s Schadenfreude Over the Capitol Riots Conceals Deep Anxiety
March 24, 2021
Joshua Eisenman is an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and a senior fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council.
CNN
US poverty is still high, but stimulus is stopping it from getting worse
March 23, 2021
The $600 stimulus checks and $300 weekly boost to unemployment benefits contained in Congress' December assistance package stemmed the rise in poverty in the second half of last year, according to researchers at the University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame and Zhejiang University.
ND Experts
Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Bloomberg
No Right to Pray on the 50-Yard Line for Coach (Podcast)
Audio
March 22, 2021
Rick Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses a 9th Circuit decision that rejects the claims of a high school football coach that he had the right to pray at the 50-yard line immediately after his team’s games.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
The Washington Post
Trump, My Dad and the Rightward Shift of Latino Men
March 22, 2021
David Cortez, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, interviewed Latino agents who worked for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona, Texas and California in 2014 and 2015.
ND Experts
Political Science
Bloomberg
Satan’s Lawyers Try Christian-Right Tactics to Erect Winged Goat
March 22, 2021
Do they accept the church’s views as authentic or interpret them as merely a way to provoke Christians, asked Richard Garnett, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School and director of the Program on Church, State and Society.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School