ND in the News: April 2021
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CNN
Students hope vaccine mandate will bring life back to college
April 23, 2021
Nearly 75 U.S. colleges and universities including Duke, Georgetown, New York University, Notre Dame and Syracuse are also now requiring student vaccines.
The Washington Post
547,000 Americans filed jobless claims, a new pandemic low
April 22, 2021
Poverty rose to 11.7 percent in March, its highest level of the pandemic, according to research from the University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame, as Americans awaited the next round of stimulus relief.
ND Experts
Economics
The New York Times
What Teenagers Have Learned From a Tumultuous Time in Politics
April 22, 2021
Other research has also found that for some young people who were disappointed by the Trump presidency, it awakened their interest in political involvement, according to David Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht, both political scientists at Notre Dame.
Religion News Service
Parent like your religion depends on it
April 21, 2021
With Christian Smith, a sociologist at the University of Notre Dame, Adamczyk combed several national surveys for information and conducted over 200 interviews, resulting in the book “Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation,” out this week from Oxford University Press.
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Sociology
Politico
Poverty rate rose to pandemic high ahead of new stimulus
April 21, 2021
“The March 2021 estimates indicate that without additional aid many in the U.S. continued to suffer from the economic impacts from Covid-19, according to research released Tuesday by economists Jeehoon Han, from Zhejiang University, Bruce Meyer, from the University of Chicago, and James Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame. The projections didn’t capture benefits provided by the American Rescue Plan signed last month.”
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Economics
National Catholic Reporter
Experts: U.S. pullout plan in Afghanistan does not address civilians' needs
April 21, 2021
"The U.S. policy has had diminishing returns and has not been able to achieve any significant goal over the last decade or more. The goal was to create a more secure, stable Afghanistan and that certainly has not happened," said David Cortright, director of the Global Policy Initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
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Keough School of Global Affairs
Business Insider
One chart shows how pandemic poverty reached a new high in March
April 21, 2021
Throughout the pandemic, researchers from Zhejiang University, University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame have tracked US poverty rates.
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Economics
NBC News
Poverty soared to a pandemic high last month
April 21, 2021
James Sullivan, an economics professor and director of the Lab for Economic Opportunities at the University of Notre Dame and one of the research authors, said this was almost certainly a function of the combination of $1,200 stimulus payments that were distributed to most Americans, expanded unemployment benefits including benefits for gig and self-employed workers, and an extra $600 weekly benefit on top of existing state benefits.
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Economics
Bloomberg
U.S. Poverty Rate Rose to Pandemic High Ahead of New Stimulus
April 20, 2021
The March 2021 estimates indicate that without additional aid many in the U.S. continued to suffer from the economic impacts from Covid-19, according to research released Tuesday by economists Jeehoon Han, from Zhejiang University, Bruce Meyer, from the University of Chicago, and James Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame.
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Economics
MarketWatch
Despite falling unemployment, America’s poverty rate just reached the highest level since the pandemic began
April 20, 2021
Since spring of 2020, real-time poverty data in the U.S. has been tracked every month by economists Bruce Meyer, from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and James Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Economics and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities.
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Economics
The Christian Science Monitor
‘He has not bowed’: Jimmy Lai and Hong Kong’s future
April 19, 2021
“These veterans have been sores in Beijing’s eyes for so long,” says Victoria Tin-bor Hui, associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.
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Political Science
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National Catholic Reporter
Conservative legal experts take up Apache Oak Flat religious freedom case
April 19, 2021
Stephanie Barclay, director of the Religious Liberty Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, worked on the case during her time at Becket.
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Notre Dame Law School
