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November 2, 2020
If the Affordable Care Act is dismantled, the communities it helped the most stand to lose the most — people of color. “It’s been well-established at this point that one of the biggest impacts that health insurance has is that it improves your household finances and protects you from unexpected medical bills, which can be really devastating,” said Sarah Miller, assistant professor of business economics and public policy.
Politico -
November 2, 2020
“Although elections absolutely have consequences, and it is important how things unfold in a democracy with respect to the policies and the candidates that we support, the apocalyptic predictions that people have and that candidates have an incentive to foster (if their opponent wins) are almost certainly overblown,” said Vincent Hutchings, professor of political science and Afroamerican and African studies.
MarketWatch -
October 30, 2020
“One of the most effective ways for controlling local invasions of crayfish seems to be trapping and manual removal. But these efforts are labor intensive and removals usually need to be maintained over long periods,” said Karen Alofs, commenting on the marbled crayfish, which are all female, reproduce asexually, are identical in genetic make-up and a terror to biodiversity.
VICE -
October 30, 2020
In the past 30 years, the U.S. population has grown by almost a third, but no new federal Court of Appeals judgeships have been authorized. Given lower courts’ role in voting rights cases, Leah Litman, professor of law, says expanding them will be essential to safeguard the franchise: “At this point, the health and well-being of our constitutional democracy require Congress to exercise that power.”
The New York Times -
October 30, 2020
“It’s not that we don’t want to worry about single-use plastics, but it really is not seeing the forest for the trees,” said Shelie Miller, director of the Program in the Environment and professor of environment and sustainability, whose research shows that plastic doesn’t always have the most impact of any packaging material, and a packaged item typically has more environmental impact than the packaging itself.
Popular Science -
October 29, 2020
“There’s good data that women are better physicians and spend time with patients more. We don’t have nearly enough physicians. If COVID drives more women out of medicine, that will have long-term effects on physician shortages for decades,” said Srijan Sen, professor of psychiatry and associate vice president for health sciences.
Crain's Detroit Business -
October 29, 2020
“The magnitude, the speed of this increase is unlike any we’ve seen since the spring,” said Emily Toth Martin, associate professor of epidemiology. “However, the increase in testing alone does not explain this rise. This rise supersedes any sort of adjustment that you would expect based on testing patterns, so we are convinced there is a rapid change in the spread across Michigan.”
WXYZ (Detroit) -
October 29, 2020
“I’m worried that the Georgia system is the technical equivalent to the 737 Max. They have just made a last-minute software change that might well have unintended consequences and cause even more severe problems on Election Day,” said J. Alex Halderman, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, on the latest election technology being used in Georgia.
PBS NewsHour -
October 28, 2020
“A lot of institutions are going to be thinking, we need more students who can pay tuition by going for upper-middle-class students, for example, who are predominantly white. That’s all well and good if you’re thinking from a tuition standpoint, but not from an equity standpoint,” said W. Carson Byrd, scholar in residence at the U-M National Center for Institutional Diversity.
Inside Higher Ed -
October 28, 2020
President Trump is by far the “main source of the rhetoric that stigmatizes Asian and Asian American people,” said Melissa Borja, assistant professor of American culture, whose analysis of tweets from this year’s presidential, vice presidential and U.S. Senate candidates shows that while both parties have criticized China’s initial handling of COVID-19, only Trump and Republicans have actively used scapegoating language.
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