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ND in the News: December 2020

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  1. Meanwhile, almost 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the start of the pandemic through November, according to new data released by the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  2. “The mass arrests and heavy jail terms have just barely begun,” and “there is not much the rest of the world can do to change the general direction of the crackdown,” Victoria Tin-Bor Hui, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, tells China Watcher.

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    Victoria Hui

    Victoria Hui

    Political Science

  3. The webinar was sponsored by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in partnership with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University; Georgetown University Press; Kroc Institute for International Peace 91Ƶ, Keough 91Ƶ of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame; and the Catholic Peacebuilding Network.

  4. In the past five months alone, some 7.8 million Americans fell into poverty, according to a new report released Wednesday by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  5. Nearly 8 million people joined the ranks of the poor between June and November, according to a separate paper published Tuesday by researchers at the University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame and Zhejiang University.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  6. The poverty rate jumped to 11.7 percent in November, up 2.4 percentage points since June, according to new data released Wednesday by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  7. The poverty rate jumped to 11.7 percent in November, up 2.4 percentage points since June, according to new data from the University of Chicago and Notre Dame.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  8. 7.8 million. That’s how many Americans have fallen into poverty since June as critical CARES Act benefits expired, according to new research from the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  9. “There are two ways to counteract this upward trend in poverty: One is a dramatic improvement in the labor market. The other is more support from the federal government,” said James X. Sullivan, a Notre Dame professor.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  10. The national poverty rate rose by 2.4 percentage points from 9.3 percent in June to 11.7 percent in November, putting 7.8 million people below the poverty line, according to the paper from Notre Dame’s James X. Sullivan, Chicago’s  Bruce D. Meyer, and Jeehoon Han of Zhejiang University.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  11. “They represent a completely different era of lunar history and will definitely help in our quest to understand the evolution of our moon,” wrote Clive R. Neal, a professor of civil engineering and geological sciences at the University of Notre Dame who said he would love a chance to examine the new samples.

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    Clive Neal Portrait

    Clive Neal

    Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

  12. According to estimates by Bruce D. Meyer of the University of Chicago, James X. Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame and Jeehoon Han of Zhejiang University, 11.4 percent of Americans subsisted with incomes below the official poverty line by October, up from 9.3 percent in June.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  13. Mike Chapple, a teaching professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at the University of Notre Dame, said the tool is widely used to manage routers, switches, and other network devices inside large organizations.

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    A man with blue eyes and brown hair wears a blue and white gingham shirt, navy blazer, and a gold Notre Dame pin, looking directly forward.

    Michael Chapple

    Mendoza

  14. The goal is “isolating people while they’re still infectious and preventing further infection,” said Alex Perkins, a professor of epidemiology at Notre Dame university, who has identified problems with the District’s data.

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    Alex Perkins Crop

    Alex Perkins

    Department of Biological Sciences

  15. Since leaving the White House, Denis McDonough has been teaching at the University of Notre Dame and overseeing a research program that tracks and evaluates the presidential transition.

  16. Indeed, it will be difficulty for the government to explain how actions that Facebook took six to eight years ago are continuing to harm competition today, says Notre Dame Law 91Ƶ Professor Stephen Yelderman, a former trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. 

  17. In 2018 Ghana’s ruling centre-right New Patriotic Party (npp) asked for such training in part to “deepen its ideological skills”, found Joshua Eisenman of the University of Notre Dame, an expert on the department’s activities in Africa. 

  18. Patrick Corrigan, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in IPOs, said the investor reaction to DoorDash bodes well for Airbnb.

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    Patrick Corrigan Expert

    Patrick Corrigan

    Notre Dame Law 91Ƶ

  19. Stephen Yelderman, a professor at Notre Dame law school and a former trial attorney at the Justice Department’s antitrust division, said the lawsuits lack compelling examples of consumer harm.

  20. “To me, it’s a huge loss,” Jason Ruiz, an associate professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, said of the show. 

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    Jason Ruiz

    Jason Ruiz

    American 91Ƶ

  21. Since leaving the White House, Denis McDonough has been teaching at the University of Notre Dame and overseeing a research program that tracks and evaluates the presidential transition. 

  22. Notre Dame law professor Stephen Yelderman, a former Justice Department antitrust attorney, said the case “is unquestionably one of the most important antitrust enforcement actions of a generation.”

  23. Mike Chapple, a cybersecurity expert at the University of Notre Dame and a former National Security Agency official, called the FireEye breach "an extraordinarily significant attack."

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    A man with blue eyes and brown hair wears a blue and white gingham shirt, navy blazer, and a gold Notre Dame pin, looking directly forward.

    Michael Chapple

    Mendoza

  24. "These attackers reached into FireEye's infrastructure and stole their crown jewels," said Mike Chapple, a professor of IT, analytics, and operations at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business and former NSA computer scientist.

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    A man with blue eyes and brown hair wears a blue and white gingham shirt, navy blazer, and a gold Notre Dame pin, looking directly forward.

    Michael Chapple

    Mendoza