4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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We must protect the right to seek asylum
In a co-authored Op-Ed, Sarah Paoletti of Penn Carey Law says that U.S. immigration and deportation systems are failing to adequately protect people in need of asylum.
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College enrollment could take a big hit in 2025. Here’s why
Peter Eckel of the Graduate School of Education says that demographics is destiny when it comes to the future decline in the traditional college-age population.
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Key steps Congress can take to help caregivers’ finances
Mary Naylor of the School of Nursing co-writes that one in five adults now provide uncompensated care to loved ones with health problems, pushing almost half of them to say they’ve suffered financially.
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Flu surges in the Southeast
A survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that more than a third of people are concerned about either themselves or one of their family members contracting either the flu, COVID-19, or RSV.
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Jamie Dimon called Nikki Haley about cutting the national debt
An analysis by Kent Smetters of the Wharton School estimates that the U.S. has about 20 years for corrective action to cut the national debt, after which no amount of future tax increases or spending cuts could avoid the government defaulting on its debt.
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Trump 2.0: The climate cannot survive another Trump term
In an Op-Ed, Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences contrasts the environmental stewardship of a second Biden presidential term with the planetary devastation that would result from Donald Trump’s reelection.
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Earth will cross warming threshold this decade: Study
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that current obstacles to decarbonizing the global economy are political, not physical or technological.
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Conservative companies create parallel economy as polarization thrives
Americus Reed of the Wharton School says that brands are building ideological DNA into their appeals to customers to stand out in the attentional deficit economy.
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What does the transition to EVs mean for workers?
Sanya Carley of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design doesn’t see evidence that electric vehicles are job-killers at this point.
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In California and Europe, a new dawn for corporate climate disclosure
In a co-written Op-Ed, Eric Orts of the Wharton School says that new climate change disclosure laws in California and Europe represent a substantial improvement over the previous hodgepodge of voluntary standards.