About 13% of working parents said they’d lost a job or reduced their hours because of a lack of child care, according to a survey of more than 2,000 people, conducted by researchers from Northeastern University between May 10 and June 22.

“Unfortunately, the result was predictable,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. “In many states, the top hotspots for COVID spread have been prisons and jails.”

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed to discuss some of the major voting rights lawsuits across the country. 

Ted Landsmark is Director of Northeastern’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy and a Distinguished Professor of Public Policy. Jennie C. Stephens is Professor and Director of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs and Director for Strategic Research Collaborations at Northeastern’s Global Resilience Institute. Her new book is Diversifying Power: Why we Need Antiracist, […]

Respondents 18 to 24 had an 18 percent probability of believing a false claim, compared with 9 percent for those over 65, according to the study, conducted by researchers from Harvard University, Rutgers University, Northeastern University and Northwestern University.

Ravi Ramamurti is the University Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy and the director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.

“We’ve lived through this scenario and did well without caps on bandwidth usage, which makes you question why they are needed at all,” said David Choffnes, an associate professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.

“You just sort of lay out of situations typical of what a president might face,” explains Alan Schroeder, journalism professor at Northeastern University.

In a campaign marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, the old methods of exit polls are less useful than in the past, says Costas Panagopoulos, chair of Political Science at Northeastern University and a member of the NBC News decision desk team.

“The concern [about flu season] is sort of three-fold,” said Sam Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist. First, it’s unclear how influenza viruses and the novel coronavirus will interact: They could inhibit one another or have no interaction at all, or each could amplify the other’s spread. Second, both illnesses can inflame the lungs, and anyone […]

Herd-immunity calculations such as the ones in Kwok’s example are built on assumptions that might not reflect real life, says Samuel Scarpino, a network scientist who studies infectious disease at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “Most of the herd-immunity calculations don’t have anything to say about behaviour at all. They assume there’s no interventions, no […]

S. Atyia Martin is CEO and founder of All Aces Inc., a member of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Advisory Committee, a distinguished senior fellow at Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, and former chief resilience officer for the City of Boston.