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September 28, 2020
“As policymakers (in Detroit) think about recovery, we want them to focus on economic mobility in a holistic way. It shouldn’t just be a conversation about jobs. It should also be a conversation about health care, transportation and education, as well as a conversation about who’s at the table making decisions when we’re spending money to address these priorities,” said Afton Branche-Wilson, strategic projects manager at Poverty Solutions’ Detroit Partnership on Economic Mobility.
Detroit Free Press -
September 25, 2020
Melvyn Levitsky, clinical professor of public policy, says a series of factors serve as a troubling combination for Russian President Vladimir Putin: “A country that tries to control its population without having all the means of control, where the economic situation is not so good, where dependency on oil and natural gas is certainly coming down, particularly during this period of time. … There is something brewing that could create problems for Putin.”
U.S. News & World Report -
September 25, 2020
“Top-down mobilization propels the whole bureaucracy to meet Xi’s mandate — eradicating poverty — at any cost. Its strength is also its weakness. Results will look impressive because they must, but if extreme measures are used to achieve them, they bring unintended problems down the road,” said Yuen Yuen Ang, associate professor of political science, on President Xi Jinping’s promise to end rural poverty in China.
Bloomberg -
September 25, 2020
“I always feel a little uneasy at looking back at people creating things with so little support and pre-established protocols, without necessarily thinking about the social, racial and colonial motivations that made them act the way that they did,” said Antoine Traisnel, assistant professor of comparative literature, and English language and literature, on the legacy of American ornithologist John James Audubon.
Gizmodo -
September 24, 2020
“We’ve had a long-running system of confining men and women to particular stereotyped roles, but if we let the law reinforce those stereotypes then it doesn’t allow people to be equal. Heightened scrutiny says you can’t rely on those stereotypes,” said Samuel Bagenstos, professor of law who clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on the brief she wrote in Craig v. Boren, a major 1976 ruling that advanced gender equality.
Bloomberg -
September 24, 2020
“If you move to a fire-prone area, even if you don’t lose your home, you’ll spend days or weeks each summer under stress, suffering the health risks of smoke. Things have changed dramatically and the livability of fire-prone areas is coming into question,” said Paige Fischer, associate professor of environment and sustainability, on the lack of universally applied building codes to make houses more fire resistant and no state plan to steer development away from fire-prone areas in California.
The Guardian -
September 24, 2020
Despite research that suggests COVID-19 can cause heart inflammation, even in young people and athletes who showed mild symptoms or had recovered, Venkatesh Murthy, associate professor of cardiovascular medicine and radiology, says, “There hasn’t been an obvious influx of patients being admitted to the hospital with unexplained myocarditis, despite the huge numbers who have had COVID-19.”
The Atlantic -
September 23, 2020
“Despite a lot of messaging, there is an acute shortage of high-quality personal protective equipment in the U.S. health care system today. And that’s astonishing. And we have to look and wonder why we’re still doing this seven to eight months in and what we could be doing differently to make sure that supply of personal protective equipment is there as we enter the flu season,” said Christopher Friese, professor of nursing and health management and policy.
National Public Radio -
September 23, 2020
Karyn Lacy, associate professor of sociology and Afroamerican and African studies, says President Trump’s rhetoric about saving American suburbs from left-leaning activists and low-income housing projects is “woefully out-of-date” and risks alienating women: “I don’t think this messaging will appeal to women of color, who for too long were excluded from the suburbs. I don’t think it will appeal to most middle-class white women who are less likely to be worried about property values than more financially strained women might be.”
Detroit Free Press -
September 23, 2020
“There are only a few modern justices who would have been significant figures in American law even if they had never served on the Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is one,” said Richard Primus, professor of law and a former Ginsburg clerk.
The Christian Science Monitor
