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  While drug overdose deaths have fallen to their lowest level in six years, Allison Lin, associate professor of psychiatry, said it’s too soon to say the crisis in the U.S. is over: “It’s nice to celebrate all the hard work that people have been putting in; we’re starting to see some rewards from that. But it’s not time to move from the gas pedal.”

  ABC News
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  “Nationwide injunctions are useful if you are an opponent to the person who sits in the White House,” said Nicholas Bagley, professor of law. “But the thing about nationwide injunctions is they’re equal-opportunity offenders. … If they were a problem during the Biden administration, you (may) want to pause and think before defending them just because they’re opportunistically useful against Donald Trump.”

  National Public Radio
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  Medicaid expansion has saved 27,400 lives since 2010, including nearly 8,000 young adults: “From a cost-benefit point of view, there is a lot more benefit of saving someone who is 25 than 61, not because their life is of lesser value, but because there are a lot more years left of life to live,” said Sarah Miller, associate professor of business economics and public policy and of health management and policy.

  The New York Times
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  A federal funding freeze is the latest setback for vulnerable communities in Detroit and other cities left behind in the transition to cleaner, cheaper power. “The current energy system has this imbalance, but if we don’t fix that, we’ll continue down that path, even as we transition to a cleaner, greener energy system,” said Tony Reames, associate professor of environment and sustainability.

  Mother Jones
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  Increased tariffs on cars, parts, aluminum and steel will reduce employment growth by 13,000 jobs over the next five years, but Michigan’s economy, overall, will still add jobs “at a moderate pace,” according to economists Gabriel Ehrlich and Yinuo Zhang of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. “We believe the economic momentum was solid coming into this quarter. However, we’ll likely see tariffs drag on the economy soon,” Zhang said.

  The Detroit News