In the News
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August 29, 2025
“What’s very clear from the consumer sentiment data is that consumers are broadly bracing for a slowdown in the economy and a deterioration — not just with inflation — but they’re also expecting business conditions to deteriorate. They’re expecting labor markets to weaken and unemployment rates to go up,” said Joanne Hsu, director of the Surveys of Consumers.
CNBC -
August 28, 2025
“Hunting, on the whole, is not removing negative impacts associated with wolves. It does have some effect on rates of livestock loss, but the effect is not particularly consistent, widespread or strong,” said Neil Carter, associate professor of sustainability and environment, whose research found that legalized wolf hunting in the western U.S. has had only a minimal impact on preventing livestock loss.
Mother Jones -
August 28, 2025
“If Trump’s mass deportation campaign drives off Michigan’s agricultural workforce, higher costs will hit farmers (who heavily favored Trump in the last two elections). The costs will be passed on to consumers,” wrote Lilia Cortina, professor of psychology and of women’s and gender studies. “Many Michiganders voted for Trump believing his promise to ‘bring prices down, starting on Day One.’ Turns out, this was just another tall tale.”
Detroit Free Press -
August 28, 2025
“The message seems to be pretty clear that if you have an ongoing grant that’s been terminated and you want to go to court to keep the money flowing, you’re out of luck,” said Samuel Bagenstos, professor of law, about the Supreme Court ruling that legal challenges to federal grant terminations should be litigated in the Court of Federal Claims, which has no jurisdiction to restore the grants.
Inside Higher Ed -
August 27, 2025
Wearable trackers, with all their data and quantification, feed a desire for a more scientific look into one’s personal health, but there’s a limit to how many new insights a device can provide. “Health depends on a whole host of governmental and communal and economic factors that individuals alone can’t control,” said Anna Kirkland, professor of women’s and gender studies.
CNN -
August 27, 2025
“The dismantling of DEI and the failure of (the American Psychological Association) to offer a public condemnation of the removal of diversity from accreditation standards does not bode well for training sufficient numbers of Black and other minoritized psychologists. Similar to the backlash against affirmative action, the core of the anti-DEI backlash is rooted in anti-Blackness,” wrote Kevin Cokley, professor of psychology.
Psychology Today -
August 27, 2025
“It’s become increasingly hard to use the jobs report as a barometer of the health of the economy because of the role of immigration,” said Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics. “Right now the challenge is to figure out whether lower job growth reflects lower labor demand or lower labor supply because of the administration’s efforts to deport immigrants and discourage new immigrants.”
The New York Times -
August 26, 2025
“The federal statistical system is both large and complex, including hundreds of thousands of datasets that people depend on in many ways, from weather forecasts to local economic indicators. If the federal government continues to step back from its role as a provider of high-quality, trusted data, others — including state and local governments, academia, nonprofits and companies — may need to fill the gap by stepping up to collect it,” wrote research professor Margaret Levenstein and research assistant professor John Kubale of the Institute for Social Research.
The Conversation -
August 26, 2025
“There are a lot of people who find direct engagement with politics uncomfortable, or when they go out for an entertaining evening at the theater, they don’t want that to be part of it, (but) I believe that everything is political. … I actually think it’s the tool of the oppressor to say we need to ‘stay in our lanes.’ If you look at the history of the theater, it’s used as a tool for political and social education, for teaching morals,” said M. Candace Christensen, associate professor of social work.
Salt Lake City Weekly -
August 26, 2025
“When it comes to health care readiness or disaster preparedness and response, we are really reactive. We set up field hospitals, we provide immediate care and then leave communities to recover over time. And what happens in that immediate period is really just like a Band-Aid. And Band-Aids don’t stick,” said Sue Anne Bell, associate professor of nursing, who believes the goal should be to develop programs that provide health support long after the disasters pass.
National Public Radio
