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Burman discusses Biden's tax proposal in Vox article

March 19, 2021

"Taking out the politics, planning a tax bill that would help reduce inequality, make the system work better, raise revenue to slow the rate of growth of the debt, all of those things would make a whole lot of sense," says Leonard Burman, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics. "But the question is just timing, and it’s always a bad time for a tax increase because it’s hard to get your base excited about raising taxes."

See related: Congress, COVID-19, Federal, Taxation, United States

Burman weighs in on Biden's COVID-19 relief package in Associated Press, Politico

March 9, 2021

Read more in the Associated Press article, "$1.9T Biden relief package a bet government can help cure US" and in the Politico article, "Biden's 'Morning in America' moment carries risks."

See related: COVID-19, Federal, Health Policy, United States

Michelmore quoted in MarketWatch article on the American Rescue Plan

March 8, 2021

Undoing the earned income threshold is a particular benefit to Black and Latino children who disproportionately live in households falling underneath the earned income threshold, says Katherine Michelmore, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs.

Harrington Meyer talks to AARP about grandparenting special needs kids

March 2, 2021

About 17 percent of children are diagnosed with some kind of disability, says University Professor Madonna Harrington Meyer, co-author of the book "Grandparenting Children With Disabilities." While that percentage seems to be increasing, support programs for families are not, she says.

Siddiki paper on net metering in the United States published in The Electricity Journal

February 28, 2021

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Schwartz talks to Research Minutes about impact of special education

February 26, 2021

Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs, recently co-authored a study on the impact of special education on students with learning disabilities. On this episode of Research Minutes, "Does Special Education Improve Student Outcomes," she discusses her team's findings.

Michelmore discusses the child tax credit on Marketplace

February 25, 2021

"The kids who don’t receive the full credit right now are predominantly kids who are lower income, many who are living in poverty, and many who are either Black or Latino," says Katherine Michelmore, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs.

Monnat discusses increase in overdoses during the pandemic in VICE

February 22, 2021

"At its core, I think addiction is about a need for connection," says Shannon Monnat, Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion. "My research shows that work, family and community are the three most important factors for understanding why drug overdose rates are higher in some places than others. Work, family and community are the three arenas where we derive meaning and purpose from our lives. If we don’t have those connections, we might seek it out elsewhere, for example with drugs."

See related: Addiction, COVID-19, United States

Monnat quoted in Syracuse.com article on Onondaga County deaths

February 17, 2021

The reason behind 2020′s death toll is further muddied by the fact that the shutdown might have, paradoxically, saved some lives. "It could be that deaths from certain causes declined and therefore offset the increase due to COVID," says Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion.

See related: COVID-19, Longevity, New York State

Michelmore quoted in BBC News article on US monthly child benefit

February 15, 2021

"There's just a lot of kids that don't get the credit," says Katherine Michelmore, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs.

Monnat study on US policies, rural population health published in Public Policy & Aging Report

February 12, 2021

Rosenthal cited in Financial Post article on commercial real estate

February 12, 2021

The authors' empirical analysis of 56,765 commercial leases signed between January 2019 and October 2020 across 109 urban centers in the United States revealed that commercial real estate in the urban core, especially in cities where public transit accounts for a sizable share of work trips, has indeed lost value.

See related: Labor, State & Local, United States, Urban Issues

Michelmore weighs in on expanding the child tax credit in Sinclair Broadcast Group article

February 11, 2021

"A program that is geared toward giving families money to reduce child poverty is money well spent," says Katherine Michelmore, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs. She was quoted in the Sinclair Broadcast Group article, "Dems aim to increase, expand child tax credit, but some Republicans object."

Baltagi celebrated in special issue of Empirical Economics journal

February 9, 2021

Empirical Economics published a special issue to celebrate Distinguished Professor of Economics Badi Baltagi’s myriad contributions to the field of econometrics, as well as his long service to the journal.

See related: Awards & Honors

Monnat featured in Institute for New Economic Thinking article on deaths of despair, COVID-19

February 4, 2021

Read more in the Institute for New Economic Thinking article, "Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID."

See related: Addiction, COVID-19, United States

Wang article on fixed-k inference for conditional extremal quantiles published in JBES

February 3, 2021

Schwartz discusses her recent special education study with Hechinger Report

February 3, 2021

"They’re closing the gap with their general education peers by about a sixth," says Professor Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs and lead author of the recently published study, "The Effects of Special Education on the Academic Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities."

See related: Disability, U.S. Education, United States

Popp talks to CNN, Washington Examiner about effects of Obama's Recovery Act

February 2, 2021

Professor David Popp talks to CNN, Washington Examiner about effects of Obama's Recovery Act.

Popp weighs in on Biden's climate directives in New York Times

January 28, 2021

David Popp, Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy and co-author of a 2020 paper on the employment effects of the Obama-era spending on green job creation, discounted the notion of creating one million new auto manufacturing jobs.

Schwartz study on special education, academic performance published

January 22, 2021

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