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How Can I Tell If My Internet Provider Is Throttling (Slowing) My Connection Speed?

Check out Wehe, a National Science Foundation project run out of Northeastern University in Boston. 
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‘An Odd Stretch of Forgettable White Guys Yelling at Each Other’

Alan Schroeder is a professor in the school of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston. Schroeder is the author of several books, including Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail.
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Internet Providers Look to Cash In on Your Web Habits

David Choffnes, a Northeastern University professor who studies privacy and cybersecurity, said internet-service providers get a unique glimpse at consumer preferences, including whether they favor pricey or less-expensive goods or read more liberal- or conservative-leaning news.
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We need to face this harrowing statistic on gun violence

After decades of decline, fatal intimate partner abuse rose from 2015 to 2017, according to a study by James Alan Fox and Emma Fridel of Northeastern University.
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Tim Ryan Just Wants to Make a Good Impression Tonight

The fact that he’s appearing on the first night, when the star power will be dimmer, could give Ryan more of a chance to shine, says Alan Schroeder, a professor in the school of journalism at Northeastern University and the author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail. 
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Tim Ryan Just Wants to Make a Good Impression Tonight

The fact that he’s appearing on the first night, when the star power will be dimmer, could give Ryan more of a chance to shine, says Alan Schroeder, a professor in the school of journalism at Northeastern University and the author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail. 
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Foundation Report Calls Out Suburbs For Blocking Affordable Housing

Alicia Sasser Modestino, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University and one of the report’s authors, said the team found that the inverse was true, as well.
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Report: Greater Boston’s housing costs could slow hiring efforts

With an educated workforce and an economy driven by sectors like education and health care, if additional housing, close to transit and jobs, doesn’t materialize, “employers may have increasing difficulty filling jobs,” according to the Greater Boston Housing Report Card, an analysis put together by the Boston Foundation and researchers at Northeastern University and UMass.
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First Democratic debate offers struggling candidates a chance to shine

The danger for the candidates is “everyone stands there and mimics each other” and no one leaps out from the pack, said Alan Schroeder, an expert on presidential debates and a professor emeritus at Northeastern University.

Stubborn Zoning Boards Tied To Segregation In Boston Area, Report Finds

“I think in New England we have a long tradition of thinking that home rule is a right and not acknowledging that it can sometimes work to the detriment of the greater good,” said Sasser Modestino, associate director at Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy.
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The RS Politics 2020 Democratic Primary Policy Guide

Buttigieg bucked with some progressives in April when he seemed to oppose tuition-free college while speaking to students at Northeastern University.
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The college students who live in homeless shelters

“Americans who have a college degree earn more than Americans who don’t,” the South Bend mayor saidat Northeastern University in April.