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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Cait Lamberton of the Wharton School expressed optimism about the future of formal wear rental. Consumer surveys she’s conducted have found “that when people think about reconnecting with those that they haven’t seen for a long time, they want to have been transformed,” she said.
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Karen Lasater of the School of Nursing said nursing jobs with good pay and reasonable staff-patient ratios are in short supply. “It’s not a nursing shortage,” she said.
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Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences comments on teachers leaving the profession if the economy continues to improve and they continue to feel stress.
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Carolyn Kousky of the Wharton School said the lack of detailed data on dropped flood insurance policies makes it difficult to determine why homeowners made the decision.
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Susan Wachter of the Wharton School said the rate of unpaid mortgages is elevated at the moment, in part due to the pandemic. “For those who are unemployed, this is a serious problem,” she said. “Without a job, it is very difficult to pay off that mortgage.”
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Bucknell University professor Nina Banks has written a new book on Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, a Penn alumna and the first African American to receive a doctoral degree in economics in the U.S.
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Christina Skinner of the Wharton School spoke about how the U.S. Federal Reserve can address climate change. While the Fed can adjust monetary policy to mitigate loss, it can’t do things like “using its balance sheet to go out into the world and buy green bonds. To try and direct the flow of capital in that direction is not really on the table like it is for some other central banks,” she said.
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Stephanie Creary of the Wharton School spoke about the challenges faced by chief diversity officers. “They’re spending a lot of time in meetings convincing people that this is important and don’t always have sufficient time to do the work that needs to be done in order to move the needle on diversity,” she said.
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Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication was interviewed about smart devices and the use of voice recognition in marketing. “For consumers, I want us to be wary, to realize that this is a kind of seductive surveillance,” he said.
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Eric Feldman of the Law School spoke about the legality of businesses requiring proof of vaccination from customers. “Assuming that there’s not a law to the contrary, they could surely ask customers for proof of vaccine status,” he said. “They’re then, of course, left with the decision of what they consider to be reasonable proof.”