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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School is quoted on the strategic reasons why employers might want to offer debt-free degree programs.
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Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School said the recent surge in inflation could compel the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates more quickly than anticipated.
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Gilles Duranton of the Wharton School questioned a viral video claiming that Zillow and other real estate websites are intentionally driving up home prices. “If you could rig the residential housing market that easily, the Realtors would have done it long ago,” he said.
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The Wharton School’s Olivia Mitchell warns that the Social Security trust fund could run out of money as soon as 2029.
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Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing spoke about hesitancy surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines. “It’s really easy to only focus on the benefits and potential harms and risks of the vaccine, and just ignore the disease,” she said. “We all misestimate our risk.”
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David Hoffman of the Law School spoke about his new study, which analyzed the language in Philadelphia residential leases. “Landlords put all kinds of provisions in leases that permit eviction for what we think of as behavioral violations by the tenant, and that gives the landlords lots of power,” he said.
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Atul Gupta of the Wharton School co-led a study that explored how private equity investments affect nursing home patients. It revealed a 10% increase in mortality for Medicare patients in such facilities.
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Ashley Ritter, a postdoc in the School of Nursing, said she’s waiting to visit her immunocompromised family members until she and they are fully vaccinated.
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Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School says “faithless electors” have never changed the result of a presidential election. “There have been isolated instances of faithless electors over the years but never in a way that would make you say the Electoral College is exercising its independent judgement,” he said.
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Susan Wachter of the Wharton School co-authored an opinion piece about how once-private mortgage lenders like Fannie Mae have kept the housing market from crashing amid the pandemic. The authors expressed concern about efforts to reprivatize the industry.