Through
4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
An updated analysis from the Penn Wharton Budget Model projects that President Biden’s additional loan forgiveness for borrowers with Pell Grants could raise the plan’s cost to $519 billion, with most of the benefit accruing to low- and middle-income workers.
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Akira Drake Rodriguez of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design says Black women are evicted more than any other group in the U.S., and housing insecurity is becoming a growing crisis.
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Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine said the U.S. may still be able to reach some form of herd immunity for COVID-19. “If you define herd immunity as a critical decrease in this virus’ ability to spread from one person to another, so much so that you have a dramatic decrease in hospitalizations and deaths, I think the answer is yes. But in order to do that, we’re going to have to figure out a way to vaccinate the unvaccinated,” he said.
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Research from Penn’s Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics found that incentives like cash lotteries and scholarships don’t boost vaccination rates. “We did not see more people coming into get vaccinated in the immediate aftermath of the introduction of these statewide incentives," said Harsha Thirumurthy of the Perelman School of Medicine.
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Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing is quoted on nursing shortages and how funded, permanent, full-time positions in the settings where they’re needed will help.
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The Stuart Weitzman School of Design’s Vincent Reina is quoted on the lack of a safety net for housing.
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PIK Professor Roberto Gonzales weighed in on the effects of a recent court ruling that barred the U.S. from approving DACA requests. "For these youngsters, these teenagers who are aging into eligibility in a really critical developmental period of their lives and not being able to get DACA, it's really detrimental to their future trajectories," he said. "It curves, if not cuts off, possibilities for them."
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Robert Vonderheide of Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center in the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the Cancer Moonshot project, which has led to major federal funding for cancer research and subsequently, new treatments for patients. “It’s new initiatives, new therapies, and new ways importantly to prevent cancer in the first place,” he said.
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Dan Romer of the Annenberg School for Communications weighed in on how conspiracy theories led to the breach of the U.S. Capitol building. “In a way what happened yesterday is just a further demonstration of how [President Trump’s] supporters have accepted some of his assertions about conspiracies and are willing to act on them,” Romer said.
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A new analysis by the Wharton Budget Model found that Joseph Biden’s proposals on education, infrastructure, and health care would boost the U.S. economy and largely pay for themselves. "If you got the U.S. on this path, you would lower the debt and raise GDP," said Richard Prisinzano. "It is productive spending that Mr. Biden is proposing."