COVID-19 Risk for Individuals with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities Varies by Type of Residential Setting

Ashlyn W. W. A. Wong , Scott D. Landes

COVID-19 case and fatality rates are higher for people with IDD who are living in Skilled Nursing Facilities compared with those living in other types of facilities or those living in individual residences or their family home.

January 5, 2021

Van Slyke's brief on homelessness mentioned in Business Insider

"In order to properly care for all people and prevent further virus spread and deaths, cooperation between the private and public sectors is essential," writes Ashley Van Slyke, Lerner undergraduate research assistant.

January 4, 2021

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Associated Press: Purser discusses the right for renters to have legal counsel

"The push for right to counsel preceded the pandemic, but it’s particularly acute and particularly urgent in light of the pandemic, given just the overall precarity that renters are facing," says Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology.
January 4, 2021

See related: Civil Rights, Housing, State & Local, United States

Radcliffe quoted in Deseret News article on COVID-19 double standards

For people struggling to stay motivated to continue social distancing and wearing masks, cases where public officials ignore the very rules they are imposing on others can be frustrating. In the field of behavioral ethics, this phenomenon is called "ethical fading," says Dana Radcliffe, adjunct professor of public administration and international affairs. The term describes the way people deceive themselves to hide the wrongness of their choices. But, officials should be held to a higher standard, he says, especially when public health is on the line. "People who have considerable power or ability to influence others have a greater obligation to make sure that their actions match their words—because their words and actions can affect the behavior and welfare of others," says Radcliffe. Read more in the Deseret News article, "7 times public officials had double standards on COVID-19." 
January 4, 2021

See related: COVID-19, Ethics, Health Policy, Mental Health, State & Local, United States

Thermal power generation is disadvantaged in a warming world

Ethan D. Coffel & Justin S. Mankin
January 4, 2021

See related: Climate Change, Energy

Dynamic and Non-Neutral Productivity Effects of Foreign Ownership: A Nonparametric Approach

Yoonseok Lee, Mary E. Lovely & Hoang Pham
January 1, 2021

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U.S. Food and Nutrition Policy Across the Life Course.

Colleen Heflin

The author first provides an overview of the prevalence of food insecurity by age. Then, the author provides a brief summary of the food programs that are currently available in the United States and discusses how the life-course perspective can inform future policy and research.

December 31, 2020

See related: Food Security

Using Linked Administrative Data to Improve Child Well-being in the Rental Assistance Demonstration.

Colleen Heflin, Ariel Charney & Yumiko Aratani
December 31, 2020

Understanding and Analyzing Public Policy Design

Saba Siddiki
December 31, 2020

Poverty and Proficiency: the Cost of and Demand for Local Public Education

John M. Yinger
December 31, 2020

Strategies of Secession and Counter-Secession

Edited by Ryan Griffiths, Diego Muro
December 31, 2020

Grandparenting Children with Disabilities

Madonna Harrington Meyer
December 31, 2020

See related: Health Policy, Parenting & Family

Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese Undergraduates Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education

Yingyi Ma
December 31, 2020

See related: China

Anthropology: A Global Perspective, 9th Edition

Christopher DeCorse
December 31, 2020

Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
December 31, 2020

Transnational Crime and Black Spots: Rethinking Sovereignty and the Global Economy

Stuart Brown, Margaret Hermann

This book examines 80 such safe havens which function outside effective state-based government control and are sustained by illicit economic activities.

December 31, 2020

Lecture Notes in State and Local Public Finance (Parts I and II)

John M. Yinger
December 31, 2020

National Security Law, 7th Edition

William C. Banks
December 31, 2020

Counterterrorism Law, 4th Edition

William C. Banks
December 31, 2020

Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics

Natalie Koch
December 31, 2020

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