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ND in the News: April 2021

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  1. Tom Hare is a senior associate in the Pulte Institute for Global Development at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Thomas Hare

    Pulte Institute for Global Development

  2. 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.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  3. 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.

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    Christina Wolbrecht

    Political Science

  4. 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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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  5. 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.

  6. 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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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  7. "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 91Ƶ of Global Affairs.

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  8. “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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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  9. 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 91Ƶ 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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    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  10. 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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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  11. “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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    Victoria Hui

    Victoria Hui

    Political Science

  12. Stephanie Barclay, director of the Religious Liberty Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, worked on the case during her time at Becket.