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Here Are Some Voting Safeguards Currently In Place In Massachusetts
GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed to clarify the measures Massachusetts has in place to protect the election.
The child care industry’s plight
“The child care system needs a large-scale, immediate bailout. Full stop,” says Alicia Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University.
Child care has always been essential to our economy — let’s start treating it that way
A recent survey from Northeastern University has found that during the pandemic, working parents lose, on average, a full day of work productivity every week due to a lack of child care.
Murder convict receives state’s first commutation hearing in six years
Massachusetts stands in stark contrast to a number of other states where governors have routinely commuted the sentences of inmates as part of a national trend to reduce mass incarceration, according to Michael Meltsner, a Northeastern University Law School professor.
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1 shot of coronavirus vaccine likely won’t be enough
“We’re looking at double shots. That’s twice the amount,” said Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University. “Doubling is a huge supply chain issue.”
In good health: meet the people who have quit their jobs to join the NHS
“It’s not terribly surprising,” says Prof Paula Caliguiri of Northeastern University in Boston, US, and the author of Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work for You. Stuck at home, unable to leave the house during those early, fear-filled months of lockdown, many people looked at the […]
The Next Web
Does Facebook still sell discriminatory ads?
In 2019, researchers at Northeastern University and the digital civil rights advocacy group Upturn ran dozens of their own ads, all targeted to the same broad audience, and found that Facebook showed the ads seeking to hire secretaries mostly to women.
One shot of coronavirus vaccine likely won’t be enough
“We’re looking at double shots. That’s twice the amount,” said Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University. “Doubling is a huge supply chain issue.”
Athletes find the power of their collective voice in Jacob Blake protests
“When you think about it, at what moment does your protest happen?” said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University. “What is the social evolution temperature of the country or the world?”
Fact check: Jacob Blake faces charges in May assault case, but he has no gun convictions
Such allegations are a common and patently unfair response to tragic events that need to be corrected, said Daniel Medwed, professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University School of Law.
Colleges crack down on student behavior as virus threatens more closures
Northeastern University put 115 students on notice after they responded to a social media poll that they’d be willing to go to parties and ordered them to write an affirmation to abide by the student conduct policy or risk having their admissions rescinded.
Colleges rely on downtown hotels to allow for ‘de-densification’ of students this fall
A number of hotel operators — an industry that has been hard-hit by the pandemic — have reached out to Northeastern, which last year had an undergraduate population of more than 20,000. The school has also gotten offers of help from housing developers, particularly those creating apartments who had projects coming online at a time […]