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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Kent Smetters at the Wharton School says that residents of smaller cities and rural areas with fewer public transportation options will be hardest hit by the increased cost of car ownership.
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Jill Fisch of the Penn Carey Law School comments on Elon Musk's threats to walk away from his deal to buy Twitter.
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Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing comments that there is pressure to cut hospital nursing staffs, but fewer nurses mean more deaths.
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Allison Hoffman of the Law School says the reading of a recent mask mandate act is very narrow and many public health experts think too cramped.
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Allison Hoffman of the Law School is quoted on how drug coverage will hinge largely on whether the company can find patients who say they have been unreasonably denied access to the treatment.
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Eric Feldman of the Law School says the Supreme Court’s not likely to be all that sympathetic to the government’s position on masking requirements.
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Claire Finkelstein of the Law School wrote about a Supreme Court decision that affirmed the government’s ability to withhold evidence in the name of national security. “The judicial test for the appropriateness of asserting the privilege requires a court to grant the government the right to invoke the privilege in the first place. The result is that the government cannot meet its burden because the evidence is too sensitive even to reveal to a court for preliminary review,” she said.
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Cary Coglianese of the Law School said the EPA’s ability to address civil rights depends on leadership’s commitment to implementing change. “A committed leader of an organization who makes it a priority to shift focus, and emphasizes that in every appearance they make, and really tries to drive that through the management, can probably matter more than whether you have a 12, 15, or 30- member office dedicated to civil rights,” he said.
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Melissa Hunt of the School of Arts & Sciences agreed with Facebook’s 2018 findings about the benefits of limiting social media usage. Young people who logged in for an hour or less per day “seem to have the highest levels of well-being and connectedness and are less lonely” than those who use social media much more or not at all, she said.
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Amy Beth Castro of the School of Social Policy & Practice praised a Washington D.C. basic income pilot that fostered relationships between residents and the organizations that funded and launched the program. “We know that if that careful work of relationship-building isn’t done with these programs, there won’t be good take-up in the end,” she said.