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Released: 4-Nov-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1.5 Billion From Inflation Reduction Act to Strengthen America’s National Laboratories
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced $1.5 billion from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act to build and upgrade America’s national laboratories.

   
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Released: 3-Nov-2022 12:35 PM EDT
The Future of the Labor Market and the Economy: A Conversation with Dan Graff
University of Notre Dame

Daniel Graff is director of the University of Notre Dame’s Higgins Labor Program. Here, he explores the resurgence of unionization efforts, the future of the U.S. labor market and its impact on the economy.

Newswise: ‘On the brink of a new civil war’: New national survey highlights fragility of American democracy, stark partisan divides
Released: 3-Nov-2022 11:05 AM EDT
‘On the brink of a new civil war’: New national survey highlights fragility of American democracy, stark partisan divides
University of Notre Dame

A new nationally representative survey released by the University of Notre Dame reveals more than half of Republicans and one-third of Democrats believe the United States to be on the brink of a new civil war.

Newswise: Trade Agreements Can Ease the Pain of a Possible Global Recession
Released: 2-Nov-2022 5:45 PM EDT
Trade Agreements Can Ease the Pain of a Possible Global Recession
University of California San Diego

Uncertainty is bad for business; however, it can be mitigated by trade agreements which help countries become more resilient to economic shocks, according to a new University of California School of Global Policy and Strategy study.

   
Newswise: UCLA Awarded a $21 Million Grant to Study the Health Impacts of the Aliso Canyon Gas Leak
Released: 2-Nov-2022 4:50 PM EDT
UCLA Awarded a $21 Million Grant to Study the Health Impacts of the Aliso Canyon Gas Leak
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

A team of UCLA researchers has been awarded $20,993,333 by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to conduct the Aliso Canyon Disaster Health Research Study.

   
Newswise: Youth Voter Registration Is Up Compared to 2018—Especially in Key Battlegrounds
Released: 1-Nov-2022 3:45 PM EDT
Youth Voter Registration Is Up Compared to 2018—Especially in Key Battlegrounds
Tufts University

With one week to go until the 2022 midterm elections, there are 6% more young people ages 18-24 registered to vote in the United States than there were in November 2018—based on the 41 states for which data is available. This data includes major increases in electoral battlegrounds where CIRCLE research suggests young people could influence election results.

Released: 1-Nov-2022 3:05 PM EDT
UCI School of Social Ecology Welcomes Andrew Yang for “Leading the Change Distinguished Speaker Series”
University of California, Irvine

EVENT:  The School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine, welcomes Andrew Yang for its “Leading the Change Distinguished Speaker Series.” The businessman, attorney, lobbyist, political candidate and co-founder of the Forward Party will speak on “Technology, Democracy and the Future.” Event is free and open to the public, but registration is required here: https://socialecology.

Released: 1-Nov-2022 11:35 AM EDT
The addition of the COVID vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule is a recommendation, not a mandate
Newswise

COVID-19 vaccinations effectively reduce severe symptoms, hospitalizations, and death, which is why the Centers of Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will vote to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the recommended vaccine schedule for children.

Newswise: Worsening Racial Inequality in Home Appraisals Detailed in New Report
Released: 1-Nov-2022 10:20 AM EDT
Worsening Racial Inequality in Home Appraisals Detailed in New Report
Washington University in St. Louis

Using data from the newly released Uniform Appraisal Dataset, which includes 47.3 million home appraisals, WashU’s Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Junia Howell of the University of Illinois Chicago demonstrate stark inequalities in appraisal values between homes in white neighborhoods and communities of color.

Released: 1-Nov-2022 9:40 AM EDT
American Society of Anesthesiologists Urges Congress to Act to Fix Broken Medicare Payment System
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) announced it has provided no-nonsense solutions to members of the U.S. House of Representatives, on behalf of the Society’s 56,000 members, outlining ways to fix the broken Medicare physician payment system and improve the Quality Payment Program.

Released: 31-Oct-2022 6:55 PM EDT
Partisans Willing to Upend Democracy to Help Their Party Win Even When Polarization Is Diminished
Northwestern University

There has long been an assumption that a connection exists between affective polarization (i.e., partisan dislike of those in the other party) and anti-democratic attitudes.

Released: 31-Oct-2022 4:05 PM EDT
American Society of Nephrology Commends Congressional Recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

● The Congressional Kidney Caucus recognizes the 50th anniversary of the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Program. ● Kidney health leaders join the Congressional Kidney Caucus in calling for greater emphasis on intervening earlier and increasing disease awareness, increasing access to transplantation, and accelerating innovation in kidney health in the future of the ESRD Program.

Released: 31-Oct-2022 1:45 PM EDT
Female Politicians Disadvantaged by Online Prejudices and Stereotypes
University of Copenhagen

Studies of Reddit content demonstrate that female politicians are more likely to be referred to by their first names and language describing appearance and family relationships.

Newswise: Expert: 4 Ways Americans Can Keep Their Vote Secure and Accurate
Released: 28-Oct-2022 8:00 AM EDT
Expert: 4 Ways Americans Can Keep Their Vote Secure and Accurate
University of Michigan

J. Alex Halderman, one of the nation's foremost election security experts and a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, has spent much of the last two years debunking false claims of fraud that followed the 2020 election.

Released: 27-Oct-2022 7:35 PM EDT
Nostalgia — a Rhetorical Tool for Populists and the Radical Right
University of Gothenburg

Nostalgic rhetoric is used by parties and political movements on both the right and the left, as they imagine and make use of different versions of the past.

26-Oct-2022 6:05 AM EDT
Voters in Northern Ireland keen to see UK-EU agreement over the Protocol but the challenge of ‘selling’ any such agreement is growing
Queen's University Belfast

Support among voters in Northern Ireland for the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland remains steady, a new opinion poll conducted by Lucid Talk on behalf of Queen’s University Belfast, has revealed.

Released: 26-Oct-2022 2:40 PM EDT
Considering COVID a Hoax Is ‘Gateway’ to Belief in Conspiracy Theories
Ohio State University

Belief that the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax – that its severity was exaggerated or that the virus was deliberately released for sinister reasons – functions as a “gateway” to believing in conspiracy theories generally, new research has found.

20-Oct-2022 10:40 AM EDT
COVID-19 conspiracy theories could be a “gateway” to belief in more conspiracies
PLOS

In a new analysis, people who more strongly believed in COVID-19 conspiracy theories were more likely to subsequently develop an increased tendency to believe in conspiracy theories in general.

Released: 25-Oct-2022 2:10 PM EDT
The latest news in Opioids, Drug Abuse, and Addiction
Newswise

Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Drugs and drug abuse channel.

Released: 25-Oct-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Where AI and disinformation meet
Arizona State University (ASU)

ASU business professor says cyber adversaries will look to midterm elections to stir the pot with voters, with most of the hyperbolic chatter coming from malicious bots spreading racism and hate on social media and in the comments section on news sites.

Newswise: The Future of the Supreme Court: A Conversation with Law Professor Richard W. Garnett
Released: 24-Oct-2022 4:05 PM EDT
The Future of the Supreme Court: A Conversation with Law Professor Richard W. Garnett
University of Notre Dame

Richard W. Garnett is the University of Notre Dame’s Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, director of the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society and a concurrent professor of political science. Garnett discusses the future of the Supreme Court.



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