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Trump’s immigration policies will make the coronavirus pandemic worse

Wendy E. Parmet, J.D., is professor of law and director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law and professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.
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South Carolina: Joe Biden’s last chance to blunt Bernie Sanders?

In 2008, after winning Iowa but losing New Hampshire and Nevada, Mr Obama enjoyed a huge win over Mrs Clinton in South Carolina including 78 per cent of the black vote, according to data compiled by William Mayer, a politics professor at Northeastern University.
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Wearable Devices Take Ergonomics to a New High-Tech Place

While makers of wearable devices say the purpose is to help employers reduce injuries, the technology also raises privacy and workplace-surveillance concerns, says Jack Dennerlein, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who studies ergonomics. 
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Should CEOs run two companies at once? A Silicon Valley practice comes under scrutiny

“Your CEO should be actively running the company, not trying to balance the two,” said Parker Ellen, an assistant professor of management and organizational development at Northeastern University. “You could be concerned about burnout from the role overload, and the conflict of trying to manage both simultaneously.”
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What an equitable coronavirus response should look like

“There’s been a wide number of reports over the last few years of immigrants and people in mixed-status communities foregoing healthcare, avoiding doctors and hospitals prior to this outbreak,” said professor Wendy Parmet, Center for Health Policy and Law Director at Northeastern University, who also signed the ACLU open letter. 
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SJC Case Could Set State Precedent For Handling Of Police Pretextual Stops, Allegations Of Racial Profiling

WGBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about one of the cases on the SJC’s docket this month. 
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Northeastern holds Global Leadership Summit in Mumbai

On Saturday, the Northeastern global community gathered in Mumbai, a city of 20 million occasionally referred to as the “Maximum City” for its dense layout, relentless pace, and social diversity. 

Washington State risks seeing explosion in coronavirus cases without dramatic action, new analysis says

Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, agreed time is of the essence.
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“Fake News” Web Sites May Not Have a Major Effect on Elections

The study “is consistent with, and adds to, prior research that suggests that while a fair number of people had some exposure to ‘fake news,’ that the exposure was highly concentrated among a small number of conservatives,” says David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University.
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How the best remote teams communicate

The study, published by Academy of Management Discoveries in 2018, was conducted by Christoph Riedl of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, and Anita Williams Woolley, a professor at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. 
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Project Veritas Gets ABC Correspondent Suspended

On this week’s edition of Beat The Press, Emily Rooney joined former CNN White House Correspondent Dan Lothian, Jon Keller of WBZ News, Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University and Callie Crossley of WGBH News.

Why a Coronavirus Recession Would Be So Hard to Contain

That means American companies that rely heavily on Chinese suppliers might begin facing shortages of key goods in the weeks ahead, said Nada Sanders, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University.