Maxwell School News and Commentary
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Palmer quoted in Sinclair Broadcast Group article on saving Social Security program
See related: Retirement, United States
Lovely weighs in on new USMCA in Associated Press, Xinhuanet
"The Trump administration's stated goal was to ensure that more of the vehicles will be produced in North America. But the outcome will be just the opposite," write Professor Mary Lovely and her co-authors.
See related: Canada, Economic Policy, Latin America & the Caribbean, Trade, United States
Monnat quoted in BuzzFeed article on increase in US life expectancy
"While life expectancy has continued to improve in large highly educated urban hubs, life expectancy declines have been much more pronounced in former industrial cities, much of Appalachia, and in many small towns and cities across America’s heartland," says Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion.
See related: Longevity, Rural Issues, United States
Reeher quoted in Daily Star story on adding national motto to NYS flag
See related: New York State, State & Local
Lovely discusses US-China trade deal with Associated Press, NPR
"We're in a truce in the ongoing trade conflict between the U.S. and China," says Professor of Economics Mary Lovely.
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Wilcoxen comments on Trump's (SAFE) Vehicles rule in Washington Post
See related: Federal, Infrastructure, United States
Banks discusses Trump impeachment trial on KPCC
"One of the things to bear in mind about the procedure in the Senate is that there’s very little in the way of a legal road map. The Constitution says simply that the Senate should have the sole power to trial an impeachment," says William C. Banks, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs.
See related: Congress, Political Parties, United States
Reeher weighs in on Sanders-Warren fight in the Hill
Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, says that Senator Warren and Senator Sanders "are struggling for the same general bloc of Democratic voters, and Biden is offering an alternative to both of them—so it’s not like someone might abandon Sanders because of this conflict and then go to Biden."
See related: U.S. Elections, United States
Lovely speaks to Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post about US-China trade deal
The new system "is a gigantic finger in the eye of WTO," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. "The decider will be the trade representative in consultation with the president."
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Keck explains role of chief justice in impeachment trial in Al Jazeera
"Impeachment of a U.S. president is an unusual circumstance," says Tom Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics. "(The chief justice) is there to oversee a trial, which is something that should be well within his comfort zone. But it's a trial conducted by elected partisan officials. It's not a court, the U.S. Senate."
See related: Congress, SCOTUS, United States