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Newswise: ACI: EPA Maintains Safer Choice Status of 
Essential Chemistry Used to Make Detergents
Released: 25-Apr-2023 3:05 PM EDT
ACI: EPA Maintains Safer Choice Status of Essential Chemistry Used to Make Detergents
American Cleaning Institute

The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) applauded a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reject a petition requesting increased testing and changing the safety status of a key chemistry used to make concentrated detergent unit-dose packets and sheets from its Safer Choice program.

Released: 24-Apr-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Statement on Passage of Diagnostic and Supplemental Imaging Legislation in Montana
Susan G. Komen

Susan G. Komen® commends passage of diagnostic and supplemental imaging legislation in Montana. The bill was signed into law by Governor Greg Gianforte.

Released: 24-Apr-2023 4:05 AM EDT
Bank of England media coverage is an "effective” additional channel for accountability, study shows
University of Exeter

News coverage about the Bank of England is closely linked to the parliamentary oversight of the institution and to the Bank’s own account-giving activities, analysis shows.

   
Newswise: Will the Fox News Settlement with Dominion Change the Network?
Released: 21-Apr-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Will the Fox News Settlement with Dominion Change the Network?
Tufts University

Jeffrey M. Berry, Tufts political science professor and author, is interviewed about the implications of the Fox News - Dominion settlement and its likely impacts on Fox's business model and coverage of future elections.

   
Released: 19-Apr-2023 3:25 PM EDT
Minimum unit pricing for alcohol associated with a 13% decrease in deaths from alcohol consumption in Scotland, study suggests
The Lancet

The implementation of minimum unit pricing (MUP) legislation is associated with significant reductions in alcohol-specific deaths among those from the most socio-economically deprived areas in Scotland, suggests a new study published in The Lancet.

   
Released: 17-Apr-2023 1:20 PM EDT
Ten innovations to address America’s housing affordability crisis
University of Utah

Ivory Innovations announced the Top 10 finalists for the 2023 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability. The prize awards organizations that demonstrate ambitious, feasible and scalable solutions to the housing affordability crisis. The 2023 Ivory Prize winners will be announced on May 24, 2023, at Pacific Coast Builders Conference in Anaheim, California. There will be $300,000 in prize money distributed between at least three winners selected across the three award categories: Construction and Design, Public Policy and Regulatory Reform, and Finance.

   
Newswise: Notre Dame, Yale partnership yields high-stakes policy brief on sustainable peacebuilding strategies
Released: 14-Apr-2023 3:45 PM EDT
Notre Dame, Yale partnership yields high-stakes policy brief on sustainable peacebuilding strategies
University of Notre Dame

A new policy brief, released Tuesday (April 11) by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, offers insight on how sustainable peacebuilding can be practiced. Drawing on case studies from civil wars, such as those in Colombia, Central African Republic, Guatemala and Northern Ireland, the brief was written by a team of scholars, practitioners and policymakers and edited by Josefina Echavarría Alvarez of the University of Notre Dame and Catherine Panter-Brick and Bisa Williams from Yale University.

Released: 11-Apr-2023 12:40 PM EDT
Conspiracy theories fuel populism
Universitat Oberta De Catalunya (UOC)

Coinciding with the increased support for populist parties that we have witnessed all over the West, the last decade has also seen an increase in the number of populism-related studies, covering topics such as the causes and consequences of voting for parties that support these ideas, or the reasons for and possible consequences of the emergence and increasing presence of the attitudes on which they are based.

Newswise: Who’s liable in a ‘self-driving’ car crash?
Released: 11-Apr-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Who’s liable in a ‘self-driving’ car crash?
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University law professor examines legal grey area when semi-autonomous vehicles are involved in accidents

Newswise: Study Finds Disparate Gender Differences in Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
Released: 11-Apr-2023 8:30 AM EDT
Study Finds Disparate Gender Differences in Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
Florida Atlantic University

Youth involved in sex trafficking have extensive victimization experiences during childhood, and these experiences vary by gender. In the nationally representative study, 75 percent were males and 25 percent were females. Almost two-thirds of the girls were molested as a child, half were raped, and three-fourths were emotionally abused as a child, compared to 36 percent of males who were molested, 31 percent who were raped, and 37 percent who were emotionally abused. Eighty percent of females reported three or more victimization types compared to males (49 percent), and 31 percent of females experienced all five types of prior victimization compared to 11 percent of males.

 
Released: 7-Apr-2023 8:05 PM EDT
Kacsmaryk’s Ruling on Abortion Pill is “Devastating And Unprecedented”
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Statement from Suzanne Bell, an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, following the ruling from Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, TX, that suspends the FDA’s approval of mifepristone.

   
Released: 6-Apr-2023 3:15 PM EDT
State-by-State Youth Voter Turnout Data and the Impact of Election Laws in 2022
Tufts University

New estimates of youth voter turnout in the 2022 midterm elections highlight major variations and inequities in young people’s electoral participation across the country. Youth turnout ranged from as high as 37% in some states to as low as 13% in others.

Newswise: Sustainable development in Africa shaped by subnational administrative capabilities
Released: 6-Apr-2023 12:45 PM EDT
Sustainable development in Africa shaped by subnational administrative capabilities
Kyushu University

The Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI) is a sustainable development and economic progress metric that transcends the conventional means of measuring a nation’s prosperity.

Released: 5-Apr-2023 1:55 PM EDT
Introduction of Diagnostic and Supplemental Imaging Legislation Would Benefit Thousands of North Carolinians
Susan G. Komen

Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, applauds Representative Donny Lambeth (R-Forsyth), Representative Mary Belk (D-Mecklenburg), Representative Donna McDowell White (R-Johnston) and Representative Becky Carney (D-Mecklenburg) for working with Komen to introduce legislation that would remove financial barriers to imaging that can rule out breast cancer or confirm the need for a biopsy. In 2023, more than 10,730 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 1,450 will die of the disease in North Carolina alone.

   
Released: 31-Mar-2023 12:45 PM EDT
What does Trump’s Indictment Mean for Politics?
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

David Greenberg, a professor of history and journalism and media studies and an expert on American political and cultural history talked to Rutgers Today about the implications of Trump’s indictment and what it could mean for his support among Republicans.

 


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