In the News
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May 18, 2020
“We probably could have had a moratorium (during the 2008 financial crisis), which would have helped a lot of people … so I think, in one sense, having at least a temporary moratorium now is better than what we had then. But I think we need to start thinking about the looming eviction crisis we’ll have when these moratoriums are lifted,” said Marc Norman, associate professor of urban and regional planning.
Michigan Radio -
May 15, 2020
“I don’t know if we’re going to have a lot of great surveillance to figure out what is working and what is not working. I think we’re going to be feeling around in the dark. We don’t really know if this is seasonal or not and whether the warmer summer weather will save us,” said David Hutton, associate professor of health management and policy, and industrial and operations engineering.
Politico -
May 15, 2020
“The Great Depression affected people their whole lives, and that could be true now for millennials,” said Richard Curtin, director of the Survey of Consumers at the Institute for Social Research, who worries the cumulative effect of the coronavirus recession — especially on younger generations — could compare to the devastating impact the 1930s had on the psychology of Americans.
Bloomberg -
May 15, 2020
“There will be lots of different kinds of data that will give us different pictures of the post-COVID economy, but one of them will be how prices adjust,” said Kathryn Dominguez, professor of public policy and economics. “It is quite possible that the basket of goods that the average American purchases, even after the lockdowns are all over, differ from what they were before the lockdowns.”
Marketplace -
May 14, 2020
“You do run this risk of sort of a permanent damage, because we can do this once. I don’t know if we can keep shutting down the economy on a repeat basis,” said economist Don Grimes of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, who believes that the country could get mired in another depression if the economy is reopened too quickly and the coronavirus surges back with deadly force.
WXYZ-TV (Detroit) -
May 14, 2020
“Gov. Gretchen Whitmer … has taken swift, decisive action to slow the spread of COVID-19 and prevent hospitals from exceeding capacity, responding nimbly to ever-shifting circumstances,” wrote Barbara McQuade, professor from practice at the Law School. “Republican lawmakers have filed lawsuits challenging Whitmer’s emergency orders. These lawsuits lack merit and seem designed more to score political points than to achieve legal remedies.”
The Detroit News -
May 14, 2020
Experts say it will be years until it is understood how COVID-19 damages organs and how medications, genetics, diets, lifestyles and distancing impact its course. “This is a virus that literally did not exist in humans six months ago. We had to rapidly learn how this virus impacts the human body and identify ways to treat it literally in a time-scale of weeks,” said Geoffrey Barnes, assistant professor of internal medicine.
The Washington Post -
May 13, 2020
“For people who are looking for things to do right now, (birding is) a great way to connect with the natural world and understand the place where you live better. Birding is not just about the birds; you’ll go to places that are really beautiful or interesting that you otherwise wouldn’t know about,” said Ben Winger, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and curator of birds at the Museum of Zoology.
MLive -
May 13, 2020
“Right now, there’s exactly one economic problem — leaving the house isn’t safe. It’s a bit of bad news for consumers because they’re not going to go out and spend. It’s also bad news on the supply side of the economy, which is, no one wants to go into work and responsible companies don’t want to be seen taking risks with their workforces, so they’re staying shut as well,” said Justin Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy.
MSNBC -
May 13, 2020
“It’s time to admit that, for the vast majority of students, online learning and work sheets are no substitute for trained teachers in classrooms. For most children, the school year effectively ended in March. If the country doesn’t recognize this fact and respond accordingly — with large federally funded programs to reverse the losses — we will do great harm to a generation of children who will learn less than those who went before them,” wrote Susan Dynarski, professor of education, public policy and economics.
The New York Times
