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ND in the News: January 2021

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  1. According to a study released Monday by economists Bruce Meyer from the University of Chicago and James Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame, America’s poverty rate increased by 2.4 percentage points over the final six months of 2020.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  2. And while some forms of PFAS are being phased out, the replacements have not been proven to be safer, said Graham F. Peaslee, a professor in experimental nuclear physics, chemistry and biochemistry at Notre Dame who led the study.

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    Graham Peaslee

    Experimental Nuclear Physics

  3. More than 8 million Americans fell into poverty during the final six months of 2020, according to real-time estimates published by economists at the University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame and the Lab for Economic Opportunities.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  4. John Matthias, a professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, has published some thirty books of poetry, fiction, memoir, translation, and criticism.

  5. Roy Scranton is the director of the Notre Dame Environmental Humanities Initiative and the author of “Learning to Die in the Anthropocene.”

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    Roy Scranton

    Department of English

  6. “She’s a moderate and a centrist,” says Jeffrey Bergstrand, a finance professor at the University of Notre Dame and a former Fed economist.

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  7. Economists from the University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame said the nation saw the largest annual increase in poverty in nearly 60 years.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  8. Economists Bruce Meyer, from the University of Chicago, and James Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame found that the poverty rate increased by 2.4 percentage points during the latter half of 2020 as the U.S. continued to suffer the economic impacts from Covid-19.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  9. A study by University of Notre Dame and University of Chicago economists found that 8 million Americans fell into poverty as government benefits have expired.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  10. Not all of these downloaders wanted to wring trading intelligence out of these texts, said Tim Loughran, a professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame; many are programmers searching for meaty data sets and documents on which they can train their algorithms.

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  11. Video

    Interview with Kathleen Sprows Cummings, American studies. 

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  12. Daniel Graff, the director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame, said a minimum wage increase is not only long overdue, but it would also be significant to states, like Graff's home of Indiana, that have not lifted wages at all.

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    Daniel Graff

    Institute for Social Concerns

  13. Children are disproportionately represented among the poor, and their plight has grown worse since the summer, according to James Sullivan, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame who’s tracked poverty rates during the pandemic.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  14. “This sense of one and done, we showed we can do it, doesn’t presume a leader who is committed to advancing other women or people of color,” said Christina Wolbrecht, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Christina Wolbrecht

    Political Science

  15. Holy Cross Fr. John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame, congratulated Biden on becoming president, noting how he was encouraged that Biden began Inauguration Day by attending Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington along with House and Senate Republican and Democratic leaders.