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Keck talks to WAER about the Supreme Court justice vacancy

Tom Keck writes about the Supreme Court and its history in the light of the death of Ruther Bader Ginsburg caused a vacancy during a republican administration. He is critical of the partisanship of this system, writing "That electoral connection has been sundered in recent decades, as Democrats won the popular vote in six of the past seven presidential elections, while Republicans maintained a lock on the Court."
September 22, 2020

See related: SCOTUS, United States

Child Injuries and the Timing of SNAP Benefits Receipt

Colleen Heflin, Irma Arteaga, Jean Felix Ndashimye, Matthew P. Rabbitt

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is an important federal resource that provides nutritional assistance to low-income families. Timing of SNAP benefits can reduce childhood injuries.

September 22, 2020

Thompson quoted in Associated Press article on Trump's response to COVID-19

Margaret Susan Thompson was quoted in an Associated Press article, about how she feels that President Trump's response to the COVID-19 Pandemic was framed through his own political interests rather than that of public health and wellbeing.
September 21, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Federal, United States

Burman named to advisory committee within the Commerce Department

Leonard Burman, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics and senior research associate at the Center of Policy Research within Syracuse University’s Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public, has been appointed by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis to its Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building within the U.S., a newly formed committee promoting expanded access to federal data.
September 21, 2020

See related: Economic Policy, Federal, United States

Overcoming obstacles

Broadnax Scholar Aaron Brink-Johnson hopes to connect government and disadvantaged communities.
September 21, 2020

See related: Academic Scholarships, Awards & Honors

Jackson wins Tenth Decade grant to study Black Americans, group threat

Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science, has been awarded $20,000 for their research project "Race, Risks, and Responses: Mapping Black Americans’ Response to Group Threat."  The grant is part of a special call to Maxwell faculty offering Tenth Decade Project funding to support research and initiatives that confront systemic racial inequality.

September 21, 2020

See related: Black, Grant Awards, United States

Sultana talks to The Sanctuary for Independent Media about divesting from fossil fuels

Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, says "a divestment from fossil fuels signals a commitment to ending climate breakdown, to have climate justice, and to think about equitable and just transitions toward regenerative economies and societies that move away from fossil fuels."

September 18, 2020

See related: Natural Resources, United States

Gadarian speaks to Australian Broadcasting Corporation about partisanship and people's behaviors

"We've been talking to the same [3,000] Americans since early March, every six weeks or so," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science. What they found is that Americans were "using their partisanship as the top way to screen new information and decide what to do."

September 18, 2020

See related: Political Parties, U.S. Elections, United States

Engelhardt cited in The Real Deal article on COVID's impact on housing costs

September 18, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Federal, Housing, United States

Heflin, Lopoo study on child support income exclusion for SNAP published in Social Science Quarterly

Colleen Heflin, Leonard Lopoo & Mattie Mackenzie-Liu
September 17, 2020

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."

September 17, 2020

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."

September 17, 2020

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.

September 17, 2020

See related: Climate Change, U.S. Elections, United States

Abdelaaty examines attitudes towards refugees in Europe in new study

Lamis Abdelaaty & Liza G. Steele
September 17, 2020

See related: Refugees

Heflin study on material hardship, perceived stress and health in early adulthood published in AE

Ying Huang, Colleen Heflin, Asiya Validova
The authors examined the associations between material hardship and health outcomes in early adulthood and how they are mediated by perceived stress.
September 16, 2020

See related: Health Policy, Mental Health

Study by Ali, Shifa on colonial power, corruption in Africa published

Merima Ali, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad & Abdulaziz B. Shifa
September 16, 2020

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."

September 16, 2020

See related: Economic Policy, Federal, United States

COVID Trends Among Adults with Disabilities Living in Residential Group Homes in NYS through 7/10/20

Scott D. Landes, Margaret A. Turk, Margaret K. Formica, Katherine E. McDonald

While COVID-19 case rates increased between April 10, 2020 and July 10, 2020 for both groups, from April 10 to May 1, the case rate increased by 2.5 times for people with IDD, from 2,225 to 5,544 cases per 100,000, but only increased by 1.6 times for New York State, from 886 to 1,584 cases per 100,000.

September 16, 2020

Lerner Faculty Affiliate publishes new book: Grandparenting Children with Disabilities

Lerner Faculty Affiliate and University Professor Madonna Harrington Meyer publishes a new book, Grandparenting Children with Disabilities. The book is based on extensive interviews with grandparents who care for grandchildren with disabilities and provides insight to the various challenges grandparents have.
September 15, 2020

See related: Child & Elder Care, Children, Adolescents, Disability, United States

Maxwell sociologists appointed to leadership roles at ASA

Three professors of sociology at the Maxwell School, all affiliated with the University’s Aging Studies Institute, have been named to leadership roles within the American Sociological Association (ASA), the premiere professional organization for scholarly research in sociology.
September 14, 2020

See related: Promotions & Appointments

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