Maxwell School News and Commentary
Hranchak Talks to The National About the Debate, What She Hopes to Hear About Russia and Ukraine
“In general, I'd like to hear answers or comments, not so much about Ukraine, but about Russia, because it's not Ukraine, but Russia, that poses the biggest challenge today,” says Tetiana Hranchak, visiting assistant teaching professor in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.
See related: Russia, U.S. Elections, U.S. Foreign Policy, Ukraine, United States
Rural and Small-Town America: Context, Composition, and Complexities
Tim Slack, professor of sociology at Louisiana State University, and co-authored by Shannon M. Monnat, professor of sociology and Lerner Chair in Public Health Promotion and Population Health, share lessons offered from rural society and confronts common myths and misunderstandings about rural people and places.
See related: Rural Issues, United States
Engelhardt Provides Expertise in CNN Article on Trump’s False Claims During the Debate
“Immigrants tend to be younger and employed, which increases the number of workers paying into the system. Also, they have more children, which helps boost the future workforce that will pay payroll taxes,” says Gary Engelhardt, professor of economics, in response to Trump's statement that Biden will destroy Social Security and Medicare by putting migrants entering the U.S. on the benefits.
See related: Economic Policy, U.S. Elections, U.S. Immigration, United States
Characteristics Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among US Working-Age Adults
“Watchful, skeptics, and system distrusters: Characteristics associated with different types of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among U.S. working-age adults,” co-authored by Professor of Sociology Shannon Monnat, was published in Vaccine.
See related: COVID-19, Government, United States
Bendix Speaks to the Associated Press About a Study on the Impact of the 2023 Canadian Wildfires
“There is a quite substantial lag between addition of atmospheric carbon due to wildfire and the eventual removal of at least some of it by the regrowing forest. So, over the course of those decades, the net impact of the fires is a contribution to climate warming,” says Jacob Bendix, professor emeritus of geography and the environment.
See related: Canada, Climate Change, Wildfires
Koch Quoted in Newsweek Article on Saudi Arabia’s Global Sports Investments
Natalie Koch, professor of geography and the environment, says the Saudi monarch-in-waiting “is more concerned about selling these projects to his people than he is in selling them to the West. So, all of these big sports investments have to be carefully positioned as somehow contributing to Saudi national interests.”
See related: Government, International Affairs, Middle East & North Africa
Earnings and Employment Patterns Following Child-Care Subsidy Receipt
See related: Child & Elder Care, Income, Labor, United States
How Bureaucrats Represent Economic Interests: Partisan Control over Trade Adjustment Assistance
“How Bureaucrats Represent Economic Interests: Partisan Control over Trade Adjustment Assistance,” authored by Assistant Professor of Political Science Minju KIM, was published in International Studies Quarterly.
See related: Federal, International Affairs, Trade, United States
Reeher Discusses the Biden-Trump Debate with AFP, The Globe and Mail, The Hill and Newsweek
“Trump seemed to bring almost every issue back to immigration and the harms he asserted were coming from that—that was obviously one of his main strategies. President Biden seemed to address different policy questions more in their own terms. He talked fast and in a staccato, hoarse whisper,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
See related: Congress, Federal, New York State, Political Parties, State & Local, U.S. Elections, United States
IDJC Launches New Poll With Ipsos That Tracks Attitudes Toward Civic Engagement, Democracy
Initial findings found that Republicans were more invested in watching the first presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump than Democrats or independents.
See related: Media & Journalism, Political Parties, U.S. Elections, United States