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Economics, Education

Reporting on colleges’ finances amid COVID-19: 6 tips from Moody’s Investors Service

by Denise-Marie Ordway | May 4, 2020

Journalists get tips on covering college finances amid the coronavirus pandemic and U.S. economic downturn from experts at credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service.

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Economics, Health, Media, Politics & Government

COVID-19 50-state survey: Majority of US residents oppose rapid reopening of economy

by Carmen Nobel | May 4, 2020

Across the political divide, most U.S. residents don’t think their states should reopen their economies yet, finds a new survey on a range of topics related to COVID-19.

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Politics & Government

Siphoning civil liberties in the name of COVID-19: A research roundup

by Clark Merrefield | May 1, 2020

Since the turn of the New Year, governments worldwide — including in the U.S. — have curtailed civil liberties in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Economics, Health, Race & Gender

How we can improve public health messaging about COVID-19

by Denise-Marie Ordway | April 28, 2020

We examine research on public health messaging to understand why the coronavirus appears to have a disparate impact on U.S. minorities.

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Criminal Justice, Health

Uncovering the US prisoner transfer system and alleviating coronavirus outbreaks in prisons: Q and A with Emma Kaufman

by Clark Merrefield | April 23, 2020

NYU law professor Emma Kaufman breaks down open-records requests she filed in every U.S. state, offering a previously unseen glimpse into the nation’s prisoner transfer system.

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Education, Health, Politics & Government

School closings: How student behavior can limit their effectiveness during outbreaks

by Denise-Marie Ordway | April 21, 2020

Researchers warn that how students behave outside school can limit school closings’ effectiveness in preventing the spread of infectious disease. We look at the research.

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Economics, Politics & Government

Economic earthquake: Consumer spending in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic

by Clark Merrefield | April 17, 2020

New research is giving shape to the rapid decline in consumer spending due to the new coronavirus, showing why GDP forecasts are dire.

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Media, Politics & Government

How COVID-19 is threatening press freedom: An interview with Joel Simon

by Ann Cooper | April 13, 2020

The executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists warns that a press crackdown during the coronavirus pandemic could lead to long-term curbs on the global information system.

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Economics, Education, Race & Gender

Covering minority communities: Lessons I learned from my HBCU investigation

by Denise-Marie Ordway | April 13, 2020

Journalist’s Resource’s managing editor, Denise-Marie Ordway, looks back at how she could have improved her coverage of college hazing and other problems at a Florida HBCU.

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Economics, Health, Politics & Government

Social distancing time frames: How our expectations affect compliance

by Clark Merrefield | April 7, 2020

In a new NBER working paper, economists surveyed Italian residents to explore what happens when expectations are shattered about how long social distancing measures, like self-isolation, would last.

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287(g): The program that lets state and local police perform the functions of federal immigration officers

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“In the span of about two months, the Trump administration radically expanded the 287(g) program beyond anything I have seen in the past 15 years of close study of this precise policy,” writes immigration scholar Austin Kocher.

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