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Motherly

Inflation causing more teens to enter workforce to help their families pay bills

Alicia Sasser Modestino, a professor who studies economics and public policy at Northeastern University, told USA Today that more than half of teens in the U.S. have jobs so they can either cover their own expenses — like a cell phone, clothing, and shoes — or help contribute to household expenses, such as rent, utilities, and groceries. 
Teen Vogue

Beyoncé Gives Kamala Harris Her Blessing to Use “Freedom” For Campaign

Northeastern University media and law professor Alexandra Roberts told the school’s student newspaper that waging a publicity campaign or threatening legal action can be an easier way to get an undesirable candidate to hit pause without having to go through a copyright lawsuit.
Vanity Fair

Beyoncé Gives Kamala Harris Her Blessing to Use “Freedom” For Campaign

Northeastern University media and law professor Alexandra Roberts told the school’s student newspaper that waging a publicity campaign or threatening legal action can be an easier way to get an undesirable candidate to hit pause without having to go through a copyright lawsuit.
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The internet is enthralled with Harris. Will that get her more votes?

“When your opponent says something, you just take it and you make it your thing, and then you’ve taken the power away from them,” said Katherine Haenschen, a Northeastern University professor who researches the effect of digital communications on voter turnout.
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Will Michelle Obama Join Kamala Harris’ Campaign?

Obama “is a gifted speaker and an effective surrogate on the campaign trail,” Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
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The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners

There’s a lot of money to be made in this space,” says Amanda Choflet, dean of the school of nursing at Northeastern University in Boston, where there are eight students per clinical course and the acute-care program is taught in person.
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Donald Trump Gets No Black Votes vs. Kamala Harris in New Michigan Poll

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek that the “swift shift in support for Trump to Harris among Black voters tells you something about how fickle Trump’s support was among these voters.
Vox

Scientists are trying to unravel the mystery behind modern AI

“But in machine learning, you have these systems that have many billions of connections — the equivalent of many millions of lines of code — created by a training process, instead of being created by people,” said Northeastern University computer science professor David Bau.
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Asphalt burns, delirium, body bags: extreme heat overwhelms ERs across US

“People who are taking certain medications for psychiatric illnesses, those medications can interfere with your sweating mechanism,” said Gredia Huerta-Montañez, a pediatrician and environmental health researcher at Northeastern University.
AARP

Boar’s Head Deli Meat Recalled Amid Deadly Listeria Outbreak

“Listeria monocytogenes, the bacteria responsible for listeriosis, is ubiquitous in the environment and can thrive in various conditions, including refrigerated temperatures,” says Darin Detwiler, an associate professor at Northeastern University and a former FDA and USDA food safety advisor.
Christian Science Monitor

Teen summer jobs are back. What’s behind the return of a rite of passage?

“Employers suddenly rediscovered teenagers as an important source of labor in the post-COVID economy, when adults realized they didn’t want to come back,” says Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate professor at Northeastern University, who has been surveying Boston’s summer employment program for nearly a decade.
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Cell phones, clothes … rent? Inflation pushes teens into the workforce

Alicia Sasser Modestino, a professor of economics and public policy at Northeastern University, says more than half of teens work to contribute to household expenses such as rent, utilities and groceries or to cover their own expenses such as a cellphone, clothing and shoes.