Maxwell School News and Commentary
Engelhardt cited in The Real Deal article on COVID's impact on housing costs
See related: COVID-19, Federal, Housing, United States
Heflin, Lopoo study on child support income exclusion for SNAP published in Social Science Quarterly
See related: Food Security
Keck comments on priority of the Supreme Court in 2020 election in Sinclair Broadcast Group article
"The Republican base has been more focused on that issue [Supreme Court] than the Democratic base has from Reagan forward, roughly," says Thomas Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics. "There’s some evidence that that’s shifting."
See related: SCOTUS, U.S. Elections, United States
Jackson discusses forced sterilizations, criminalization via Truthout
"The United States’s commitment to eugenics, medical abuse and forced sterilizations depicts the complex nature of perceived criminality in this country," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. "By marking certain people’s bodies as inherently...anti-patriotic, the state casts a veil over the grave human rights infringements and institutional abuses it enacts against nonwhite, non-wealthy, non-male, non-normative people."
See related: Gender and Sex, Human Rights, State & Local, United States
Popp quoted in Bloomberg article on Biden's climate plan
Measures to fight climate change tend to destroy some jobs while creating others, says David Popp, professor of public administration and international affairs.
See related: Climate Change, U.S. Elections, United States
Abdelaaty examines attitudes towards refugees in Europe in new study
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Heflin study on material hardship, perceived stress and health in early adulthood published in AE
See related: Health Policy, Mental Health
Study by Ali, Shifa on colonial power, corruption in Africa published
Lovely op-ed on restoring US manufacturing published in San Antonio Express-News
"To restore U.S. manufacturing jobs, we need to ask why production costs are higher here than abroad. We need to rebalance the costs and benefits to favor the U.S.," writes Mary Lovely, professor of economics. "To successfully manufacture in the U.S. and pay American wages, employers use advanced capital equipment."
See related: Economic Policy, Federal, United States
Maxwell sociologists appointed to leadership roles at ASA
See related: Promotions & Appointments