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November 5, 2020
“Partisanship … typically does not shift if Americans think a party failed to perform well. Nor does it typically shift because people move their attitudes toward or away from a party based on policy positions. (Since 1952) the most common reason people changed parties is they come to believe that either party moved away from or toward them on one of two broad issues: social spending on jobs and poverty reduction, and achieving racial justice,” wrote John Jackson, professor emeritus of political science, and Ken Kollman, professor of political science and director of the Center for Political Studies.
The Washington Post -
November 5, 2020
“If (big academic) hospitals are serious about valuing Black and brown lives, they will build new connections to communities of color that lack medical resources. … Building new priorities will need to be part of our daily work and our yearly plans. It will be part of every mundane form and difficult decision. And it should be,” wrote Theodore (Jack) Iwashyna, professor of internal medicine.
The New York Times -
November 5, 2020
Research by Elisa Maffioli, assistant professor of health management and policy, found that stereotypes regarding the “prototypical” conspiracy theorist may be dead wrong. She found no evidence that conspiracy theorists are any poorer, older, less educated, more rural or more ethnically different than individuals who are correctly informed.
Forbes -
November 4, 2020
Rachael Kohl, director of the Workers’ Rights Clinic at the Law School, said Michigan’s unemployment system should be restructured by expanding the weekly benefit amount, which she suggests should be 58 percent of the state’s average weekly wage of $1,115, or $647; ending disqualifications for medical leaves or using multiple previous employers for qualification; and improving the application system, including extending application deadlines to 30 days.
Bridge Magazine -
November 4, 2020
“Normally, these are concerns Americans have about other countries, but not about their own,” said Ted Brader, professor of political science, commenting on a national survey that shows many Americans aren’t so much concerned with their own finances, job prospects or personal safety, but rather are deeply anxious about the stability of American democracy and fear the next generation will be worse off.
The New York Times -
November 4, 2020
For Black professionals and those in the middle class, anxiety linked to police brutality and racism appears to be more pronounced, said Alford Young Jr., professor of sociology and Afroamerican and African studies. They wonder “how we got to this moment of national leadership after the civil rights movement. There is just extreme anxiety and frustration that people would not have imagined that the kinds of issues surfacing now would have followed an Obama presidency.”
The Associated Press -
November 3, 2020
There are a lot of questions floating around the election: how long to declare a winner, what you can and cannot wear to cast your vote, and whether you can carry a gun to your polling place. “You look at the various rules in different states and they’re all interpreted differently, at the discretion of people working the polls, so they can be variable,” said Josh Pasek, professor of communication and media.
HuffPost -
November 3, 2020
“This pandemic has been more politicized than any pandemic I’ve ever experienced or worked on or studied, and that’s a lot of pandemics,” said Howard Markel, professor and director of the Center for the History of Medicine, who believes while some of the blame goes to local leaders and their supporters, a large share belongs to Trump administration officials who have not supported governors taking tougher steps, have undercut and insulted infectious-disease experts, and have themselves refused to wear masks.
The Associated Press -
November 3, 2020
“What happens to the data? What if I don’t consent? Whose data is it anyway? What right do I have to it? That sort of stuff isn’t covered by Proposal 2,” said Shobita Parthasarathy, professor of public policy, on a proposed Michigan law that would require a warrant for law enforcement agencies to search private electronic data, like texts and emails.
WDET Radio -
November 2, 2020
“I don’t think the GDP numbers will matter for the election. They are backward-looking, and what they … tell us is that the economy grew quickly last quarter. But it grew quickly from a devastating and brutal quarter before that,” said Michael Barr, dean of the Ford School of Public Policy. Justin Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy, said “the economy in the third quarter will still be far below what it was pre-COVID, so far below that the depth of the recession even after that record growth will still be as a deep as a very deep recession, like the 2008 recession.”
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