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Education, Business, & Law
Wharton goes to Washington offering lawmakers unbiased expertise
Lawmakers faced with decisions about the economic recovery and the fiscal cliff showdown, rising health care costs and the housing market, could probably benefit from a little bit of unbiased expert advice.
Brookings Again Tops List in University of Pennsylvania’s Annual World Think Tank Rankings
PHILADELPHIA –- For the third consecutive time, the Brookings Institution has been ranked Think Tank of the Year in the University of Pennsylvania Global Go-To Think Tank Report.
Penn’s Social Policy & Practice and African-American Resource Center to Host ‘Let’s Talk About Race’
PHILADELPHIA — The School of Social Policy & Practice and the African-American Resource Center at the University of Pennsylvania will host “Let’s Talk About Race” Wednesday, Jan. 30, at 5 p.m. in the Claudia Cohen Hall Terrace Room.
Penn Researcher Explores the World of the Sex Trade
While some Ivy League professors are clean-cut academics who wear suits with bowties and carry stacks of books from the library, others shatter that image. Instead, some wear jeans and explore very dark, far-away places. One of those researchers studies the underworld of the sex trade -- not just in Philadelphia but also in New York City and in India.
After Six Decades, Penn Archaeologists Carry on a Tradition of Research and Discovery in Turkey
In 1950, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology sent scholars to a site in central Turkey, about 50 miles southwest of Ankara.
University of Pennsylvania to Release Annual Index of World’s Top Think Tanks Jan. 17
WHO: Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the International
Penn Launches Commemorative Symposium on Social Change Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania will remember Martin Luther King Jr. with its 18th Annual Commemorative Symposium on Social Change, a series of nearly 25 community events Jan. 15-Feb. 1.
Penn’s Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research Works To Change Child Protection Laws
A lot can change in a year.
Penn’s Fels Institute, Harvard University and AEF Produce ‘State of the States’ Report
PHILADELPHIA- The States Project, a joint venture of the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania,
Penn Fels Institute of Government Report Explores What It Takes to Succeed as a State Cabinet Secretary
PHILADELPHIA –- In a new report, “What It Takes to Lead State Agencies: Promising Practices for State Cabinet Secretaries,” Fels Research & Consulting, a division of the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels I
In the News
The Independent
How the stock market could be last guardrails to corral Trump’s wildest whims
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that Donald Trump measured his success in his first term by the performance of the stock market.
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Business Insider
The hidden risk factor investors may be missing in stocks, bonds, and options
A study by Nikolai Roussanov of the Wharton School and colleagues finds that stocks, bonds, and options strategies could have more correlated risk than is evident on the surface.
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The Wall Street Journal
How AI could help bring down the cost of college
Kartik Hosanagar of the Wharton School explains how AI could bring down prices for more complex and expensive services like higher education.
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CNN
Grocery prices are high. Trump’s mass deportations could make matters worse
Zeke Hernandez of the Wharton School says that the U.S. economy is reliant on the supply of immigrant workers.
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Inc.
Why the return to office workforce is coming back less diverse
A study by the Wharton School found that changing job openings to remote work at startups increased female applicants by 15% and minority applicants by 33%.
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