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January 18, 2022
Katherine Michelmore, associate professor of public policy, says the long-term effects of a permanent tax credit would be positive for the U.S. economy, as children who grow up in families with higher incomes “tend to do better in school, they’re more likely to graduate from high school. It might be 50 years down the road but there will be more cost savings in the future.”
NBC News -
January 17, 2022
“This new strategy will affect data from rural India or certain states in a disproportionate way. It will be harder to predict upcoming hotspots and epicenters,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, professor of biostatistics, epidemiology and global health, on India’s easing of COVID-19 rules on testing, quarantine and hospital admissions in a bid to free up resources for its neediest people.
Reuters -
January 17, 2022
“Nobody looked at this and said Republicans must have won Michigan because of what these people said. It just strikes me as very weak. … They should have known full well that they lost, and the essence of democracy is recognizing that you lost,” said Richard Friedman, professor of law, on falsified documents signed by 16 Republicans who asserted they were Michigan’s presidential electors in 2020.
MLive -
January 17, 2022
“Detroit’s single family housing market is in dire need of new ideas and programs to make home ownership more available to median income households. The conventional mortgage market is not working in the city, and has not worked for many years,” co-wrote Trina Shanks, professor of social work. “We are in a once-in-a-lifetime moment, where substantive federal investments are flowing into Detroit. Let’s focus these infrastructure investments in a way that benefits Detroiters.”
Detroit Free Press -
January 14, 2022
The abrupt shift to remote learning in spring 2020 had a negative impact on students and parents, says Pamela Davis-Kean, professor of psychology and research professor at the Institute for Social Research: “Education, since the Industrial Revolution, has been in the institution of schooling. We moved it back to the home. The parents were the ones who had to make sure to connect the kids. They had to have the resources in the home to connect the kids.”
WXYZ/Detroit -
January 14, 2022
“I would not be surprised that the sponsors would remain silent. You could potentially lose business,” said Dae Hee Kwak, associate professor of sport management and director of the Center for Sports Marketing, on the potential hazards for major corporate sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics — companies trying to remain quiet about China’s human rights record.
The Washington Post -
January 14, 2022
Research led by Julie Boland, professor of linguistics and psychology, says difficulty in finding a turn to speak during a Zoom call disrupts the natural flow of in-person conversation, resulting in Zoom fatigue: “It can include that we don’t make the same kind of eye contact, for example, or that nonvisual cues don’t work as well.”
Michigan Radio -
January 13, 2022
Secure gun storage and behavioral intervention programs for at-risk children are keys to preventing kids from getting weapons and averting violence, especially in high-stress times or when a child is experiencing depression, says Patrick Carter, associate professor of emergency medicine and director of the Injury Prevention Center: “They prevent us from getting to the point where something like (a shooting or a suicide) happens.”
The Detroit News -
January 13, 2022
“Despite truly remarkable advances in our capacity to diagnose and treat disease in the 21st century, our ability to treat lung disease is still profoundly primitive — and, intensified by the pandemic, that deficit has tragic results,” wrote Meilan Han, professor of pulmonary and critical care. “But despite an influx of funding for COVID-19 research, shockingly little has gone specifically to understanding lung damage and how to treat it. While vaccines are incredibly important … lung health too must be a national priority.”
Los Angeles Times -
January 13, 2022
“While the protests were sparked by outrage over a dramatic rise in fuel prices, they were energized by a shared grievance with much deeper roots — the failed promise of reforms dating back to 1991, when Kazakhstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union,” co-wrote Pauline Jones, professor of political science, about the recent deadly riots in the Central Asian nation.
The Washington Post
