5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Corporate taxes increasingly seen as social obligation
Witold Henisz of the Wharton School was interviewed about the mounting pressure on companies to disclose their tax payments. “One of the primary ways in which firms impact a variety of social indicators is through taxes,” he said.
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Lack of progress in treating COVID causes worry for unvaccinated
Jeffrey Morris of the Perelman School of Medicine said there’s been little progress in treating COVID-19 in recent months.
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How Philadelphia plans to beat the looming eviction cliff
Vincent Reina of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design said Philadelphia’s approach to delaying evictions requires landlords to pursue alternatives before ousting tenants. “In our greater scheme of housing policy, we often focus on enforcement mechanisms while we lack the resources to create incentives,” he said. “If localities want to be proactive in protecting households from eviction, they can connect enforcement around evictions to those resources.”
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Workers sue over vaccine mandates
Eric Feldman of the Law School discussed the lawsuits filed by workers against employers’ COVID-19 vaccine requirements. “There’s a distinction that’s not drawn in this lawsuit between mandatory vaccination and compulsory vaccination,” he said. “Compulsory vaccination is literally holding people down and jabbing a needle in their arm and forcing them to get vaccinated against their will; mandatory vaccination isn’t forcing anyone to get vaccinated.”
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A return to the office is a great chance to make a fresh start
Excerpts from “How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be” by Katy Milkman of the Wharton School address how workers and bosses can adopt better habits upon returning to the office.
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‘Hassle factor’ and distrust shadow wide U.S. vaccine hesitancy
Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing commented on a New Orleans public health campaign that uses Mardi Gras imagery. “If you’re from New Orleans, a lot of that resonates for people who are local,” she said. “We need inspiration, and local campaigns in every city. I think that was very successful and needs to be replicated.”
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The biggest payoff from Stockton’s basic income program: Jobs
Research co-led by Amy Castro Baker of the School of Social Policy & Practice found that a trial basic income program had profound effects on recipients, increasing economic stability and lowering psychological distress.
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PwC to defend audit work, independence in whistleblower trial
Daniel Taylor of the Wharton School commented on an upcoming trial in which a former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) senior manager accused the firm of firing him for submitting SEC complaints. “If we assume that the whistleblower is credible and we assume that the whistleblower is telling the truth, that everything he has said is accurate, then I would say that his claims are an indictment on the culture of PwC’s Silicon Valley office,” said Taylor. “But that’s a big if.”
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Sweetening senior status is potential path to boost judge supply
Stephen Burbank of the Law School co-authored a study that explored why many eligible judges don’t pursue senior status, in spite of the perks. Without senior status judges, he said, “the judiciary could collapse.”
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The free speech debate about social media is broken
Research by Paul Rozin of the School of Arts & Sciences was cited. Rozin conducted an experiment in which participants labeled two identical bottles of sugar differently and then expressed reluctance to consume the contents of the one they’d labeled “sodium cyanide,” even though they knew the bottle contained sugar.