ND in the News: September 2021
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America
General Mark Milley had a predicament: Follow God’s orders or Trump’s?
September 16, 2021
Robert Latiff is a retired U.S. Air Force major general and an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame, researching emerging weapon and national security technologies, just war theory and law of armed conflict.... From a perspective of that tradition and the church’s position on the moral indefensibility of the use of nuclear weapons, any effort by Gen. Milley to thwart a possible nuclear strike was justified, said Gerard Powers, the director of Catholic peacebuilding studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
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Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff (Ret.)
Reilly Center
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
The Washington Post
Pope Francis says U.S. bishops debating Biden Communion should be pastors, not politicians
September 15, 2021
John McGreevy, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, said it was “fairly clear” that Francis was encouraging Catholics and bishops “not to use Communion as a weapon against particular politicians for particular issues.”
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History
The New York Times
Abortion Has Never Just Been About Abortion
September 15, 2021
David Leege, professor emeritus of political science at Notre Dame, has an additional explanation for the process linking racial animosity and abortion...Darren Dochuk, a professor of history at Notre Dame and the author of “From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism,” argued in an email that the strength of the opposition to abortion in the South grows out of the unique tensions in the region between notions of manhood and evangelical attempts to control the sins of men...
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College of Arts and Letters
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The New York Times
The U.S. Is Winning the War on Poverty
September 15, 2021
The chart below, based on an analysis by Bruce Meyer of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and James Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame, shows no lasting progress in the official measure of poverty, but a rapid decline in two alternative measures.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Yahoo
Pandemic Stimulus Checks Softened the Blow of Rising US Poverty Rates
September 14, 2021
Despite the increase in poverty, rates would have been much higher without intervention from the government, according to an analysis of data by James Sullivan at the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Economics and Bruce Meyer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, as reported by Bloomberg.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
CNN
Poverty rose in 2020 amid pandemic even as stimulus payments helped some 11.7 million Americans avoid it
September 14, 2021
The stimulus payments, meanwhile, helped keep a wide range of Americans out of poverty because they were sent to a broad group of people, said Jim Sullivan, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame, who has tracked the effect of government aid on poverty rates throughout the pandemic.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
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The Washington Post
Poverty fell overall in 2020 as result of massive stimulus checks and unemployment aid, Census Bureau says
September 14, 2021
“The federal government responded quickly and significantly. And it’s very clear that those efforts prevented a sharp rise in poverty,” said James Sullivan, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Fortune
Poverty in the U.S. rose last year amid COVID pandemic says Census Bureau
September 14, 2021
If not for government intervention, poverty would have been much higher, according to an analysis of real-time poverty data by James Sullivan at the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Economics and Bruce Meyer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Our Sunday Visitor
Opening the Word: Jealousy and ambition: The root of sin
September 13, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
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McGrath Institute for Church Life
The Guardian
Alt-right finds new partners in hate on China’s internet
September 11, 2021
But Michel Hockx, director of the Liu institute for Asia and Asian studies at the US’s University of Notre Dame, thinks this is because such speeches do not threaten the government.
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East Asian Languages and Cultures
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The Guardian
China’s cultural crackdown: few areas untouched as Xi reshapes society
September 10, 2021
“On the one hand, the party represents the people and wants culture to be popular,” said Michel Hockx, director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
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East Asian Languages and Cultures