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ND in the News: February 2021

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  1. “If suddenly some of your best customers quit putting things in the mail,” said James O’Rourke, a professor of management at University of Notre Dame, “or they decide they can do it faster, better, cheaper another way, then the post office has this huge infrastructure and the demand is not supporting all of it.”

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    James O’Rourke

    James O'Rourke

    Mendoza College of Business

  2. Elizabeth M. Renieris, a technology and human-rights fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in Harvard University’s Kennedy 91Ƶ of Government and a practitioner fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab, has been named founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame.

  3. Covid-19 pushed the child poverty rate to 16.6% in December from 15.3% right before the pandemic began, according to an analysis from University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer, University of Notre Dame’s James Sullivan and Zhejiang University’s Jeehoon Han.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  4. “Children are future productive members of society, and their total benefit to society is greater than their benefit to their parents alone,” said Kasey Buckles, an economist at Notre Dame.

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    Kasey Buckles

    Economics

  5. Some is out in the open, with the prosperous coordinating efforts that the government endorses, according to Roberto DaMatta, an emeritus anthropology professor at the University of Notre Dame.

  6. Robert Schmuhl is professor emeritus of American 91Ƶ at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Robert Schmuhl

    Robert Schmuhl

    American 91Ƶ

  7. "It's really critical that the Biden administration live up to their commitment of fair and humane treatment of immigrants at the border," said Lisa Koop, associate director of legal services at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a legal advocacy group that represents immigrant youth.

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    Lisa Koop

    Lisa Koop

    Notre Dame Law 91Ƶ

  8. “I do think that, to some degree, this herd Reddit movement is going to continue,” said Jason Reed, a finance professor at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Jason Reed

    Jason Reed

    Mendoza College of Business

  9. Graham F. Peaslee, a physics and biochemistry professor at the University of Notre Dame and coauthor of the study, said the research appeared to corroborate his previous studies.

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    Graham Peaslee

    Experimental Nuclear Physics

  10. “The stimulus has to pass,” said Jason Reed, finance professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. “Whatever the payrolls number is, we shouldn’t forget we are significantly under the amount of jobs needed to get back to where we were a year ago.”

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    Jason Reed

    Jason Reed

    Mendoza College of Business

  11. Roosevelt called the encyclical “just as radical as I am” and “one of the greatest documents of modern times,” according to John McGreevy, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. 

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    John McGreevy

    History