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Education, Business, & Law
Penn Wharton Budget Model’s analysis of bipartisan Senate infrastructure deal
Penn Wharton Budget Model’s analysis of bipartisan Senate infrastructure deal
Penn Wharton Budget Model analyzed the budgetary and economic effects of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal endorsed by President Biden.
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: 40th anniversary of a historic first
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: 40th anniversary of a historic first
July 7 marked 40 years since O’Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court. Scholar Marci A. Hamilton shares her thoughts on O’Connor’s legacy
Supreme Court decision rules Arizona’s laws constitutional
Supreme Court decision rules Arizona’s laws constitutional
In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the Supreme Court ruled that Arizona’s election laws—pertaining to out of precinct ballots and whether or not third parties can pick up and deliver absentee ballots—do not violate the Voting Rights Act.
Amani Carter develops a new study on unmasking coded bias
Amani Carter develops a new study on unmasking coded bias
The Class of 2022 law student works to identify biases and ‘stereotype threat’ in AI and help provide context for the conversation around mitigating those biases.
How to bring your conscience to work
How to bring your conscience to work
Wharton’s G. Richard Shell talks about how employees and managers can stand up for their values and create a more ethical workplace.
Project reveals ongoing unreported violations of rights with medical deportations
Project reveals ongoing unreported violations of rights with medical deportations
Researchers in the Legislative Clinic at Penn Law and Free Migration Project have released a new report on the use of medical deportations in the U.S.
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and mass incarceration
Penn Law student Raymond Magsaysay has an article forthcoming in the Michigan Journal of Race & Law about the absence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the conversation about criminal justice reform.
Penn Professional Staff Assembly talks with Wharton Dean Erika James
Penn Professional Staff Assembly talks with Wharton Dean Erika James
In a candid conversation, James opened up about her career, the pandemic, and workplace diversity.
A post-pandemic wave of teachers leaving the workforce, and other trends
Penn GSE’s Richard Ingersoll has published a new report looking at who is at work in America’s classrooms, and finds that many trends he has tracked since publishing his first study continue to hold true, and in some ways have deepened.
Online learning’s impact on student performance
Online learning’s impact on student performance
Alex Rees-Jones of the Wharton School co-authored a study that found that online learning during the pandemic had a negative impact on student learning.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Amazon and other employers must pay workers for time in security screenings, Pa. Supreme Court says
Sophia Lee of the Law School said a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling on paying employees for time spent going through mandatory security screenings could have broader implications. “In the era of COVID, one could imagine that it might also include things like temperature checks and rapid tests,” she said.
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Al Jazeera
Robinhood and the rise of teenage stock investors
Cait Lamberton of the Wharton School spoke about the rise, and potential pitfalls, of stock-trading apps. “You’re seeing a medium that was really primarily used for entertainment being used for something else,” she said. “There could be a mixing of entertainment and learning mindsets that could pull younger investors toward less diagnostic information.”
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CBS News
Court order dashes hopes of teenage immigrant DACA applicants
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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CNBC
Wharton’s incoming MBA class is more than 50% women for the first time in school history
More than half of the Wharton School’s incoming MBA class are women, a record high for both the school and the country’s other top business programs. “As a female leader, I understand firsthand the significant impact that experiencing meaningful gender representation can have on women as they chart their careers,” said Dean Erika James.
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The New York Times
The Cosby ruling: Some legal analysts dispute the court’s reasoning
David Rudovsky of the Law School weighed in on the court ruling that overturned Bill Cosby’s conviction on the basis of due process violation. District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. had verbally assured Cosby he’d be immune from prosecution if Cosby testified in a civil suit. “They got it right on the due process violation because what Castor did was basically a promise,” said Rudovsky.
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