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February 13, 2020
Ravi Anupindi, professor of operations and technology, discussed the effects of the coronavirus quarantine on the global and U.S. economies: “In the Wuhan area where the main impact is, 50 percent of all the production is actually automotive-related … we should see the (economic) impact on Michigan much more than other states for that reason.”
Michigan Radio -
February 13, 2020
“Those who serve in more junior (health care) roles generally report to a single person who functions as a gatekeeper to ongoing employment and advancement. This power dynamic is one in which assault, abuse, harassment and coercion can flourish,” co-wrote Reshma Jagsi, professor of radiation oncology and director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine.
NBC News -
February 12, 2020
“If I’m a natural gas producer, I’m looking at this and thinking, ‘Wow, there’d be a carbon price that would further crowd out coal. Maybe I’m a net winner on this because the carbon content of natural gas is so much lower than coal,'” said Barry Rabe, professor of public policy, environment and political science, commenting on a bill that would impose a steep tax on products and services that emit carbon pollution.
ABC News -
February 12, 2020
Jenny Radesky, assistant professor of pediatrics, says talking about addictive behaviors and social media “locates the problem within the individual and their response to media, rather than in the media design itself. … The problem can be more easily solved by changing the design of the digital environment rather than asking each individual user to resist products that are designed to be optimally engaging.”
Gizmodo -
February 12, 2020
Political campaign ads and candidate messages showing opponents in a negative light have long been a staple of American politics, but now such content can spread quickly, says Clifford Lampe, professor of information: “The difference now is that the campaigns themselves, the president of the U.S. himself, is able to disseminate these pieces of media to the public. They no longer have to collaborate with media outlets.”
The New York Times -
February 11, 2020
Among high school seniors, the proportion who never smoked tobacco surged from 39 percent in 2001 to 76 percent in 2018, and never-smokers were at least four times less likely to misuse drugs like opioids and amphetamines than teens who had tried smoking, according to Richard Miech, research professor at the Institute for Social Research, and colleagues.
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February 11, 2020
Tom Buchmueller, professor of business economics and public policy, and health management and policy, says proposals to change the Affordable Care Act to increase the number of families eligible for government subsidies and lower their out-of-pocket costs could have even more immediate impact than a public-option health care system: “As a practical matter, it would be much easier to tweak the parameters of the Obamacare system to expand coverage.”
Detroit Free Press -
February 11, 2020
“This younger group of students, they see it differently, and they want something different. They want climate justice. They want energy justice, not just energy or climate change,” said Dorceta Taylor, professor of environmental sociology, on the younger generation’s interest in making environmental groups more diverse.
Gizmodo -
February 10, 2020
Students least likely to enroll in college — poor and nonwhite students — have less access to high school career-tech programs that can lead to jobs earning middle-class wages, according to research by Brian Jacob, professor of public policy, economics and education: “I wouldn’t have been surprised if (the disparity) was AP (advanced placement) courses or gifted and talented programs or college advising. But I was more surprised by the disparity in CTE.”
Bridge Magazine -
February 10, 2020
“These data are becoming of increasing practical importance for figuring out the state of the economy for policymaking. The quality of official statistics is going to deteriorate without help from big data,” said Matthew Shapiro, professor of economics, on the Fed’s reliance on some privately produced economic data, which is nearly as accurate as — and often timelier than — the government reports that it has long depended upon.
The New York Times
