Maxwell School News and Commentary
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Jamie Winders discusses new Autonomous Systems Policy Institute on WAER
See related: Autonomous Systems, New York State, School History
Ma quoted in SCMP article on Chinese students in US, visa challenges
"Many students are scared away already by the new policies even before going through the visa hurdles," says Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology.
See related: China, Government, U.S. Education, United States
Research by Emily Thorson cited in Forbes article on misinformation
Emily Thorson, assistant professor of political science, defines "belief echoes" as "effects on attitudes that persist even when you know that a piece of information is false."
See related: Media & Journalism, United States
Lovely explains how the trade war hurts Americans in CNN article
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Lovely speaks with Associated Press, NPR, NY Times about the US-China trade war
"It looks like there was a level of specificity that China wasn’t willing to accept and a level of ambiguity that the Trump administration wasn’t willing to accept," Mary Lovely, professor emerita of economics, told the New York Times.
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Harrington Meyer book Grandmothers at Work cited in LA Times
According to University Professor Harrington Meyer, grandmothers often share child-rearing duties and ease the childcare burden of working parents, a role that has only been increasing.
See related: Child & Elder Care, United States
Yinger's expertise in residential discrimination cited in The Atlantic
"Community groups like the Urban League started doing audits and tests to show discrimination," John Yinger, Trustee Professor of Economics and Public Administration and International Affairs, said. "In 1973, the Urban League found a lot of discrimination in some of the properties that Trump Management owned."
See related: Housing, Race & Ethnicity, United States
Banks speaks with Bloomberg about AG Barr's feud with Democrats
See related: Federal, Law, Political Parties, United States
Lovely discusses US-China trade war with ABC News, Marketplace, Wall Street Journal
"I think that if President Trump goes through and raises these tariffs and then China retaliates, there will be a lot more pain and no gain," says Professor of Economics Mary Lovely.
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Zwick discusses Uber, Lyft drivers strike in Agence France Presse
Austin Zwick, assistant teaching professor of public affairs, says the job actions are an attempt to shift the balance of power between drivers and platforms, which now have the power to arbitrarily determine compensation and benefits. "The joint strike plus boycott strategy appear unlikely to succeed nationally as it does not appear that all drivers and passengers are unified behind the cause."
See related: Labor, United States