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Teens face hiring chill as they hunt for summer jobs

“If you look at youth unemployment before the pandemic, that’s pretty much where we’re headed,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, a labor economist at Northeastern University who studies teenage employment.
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The Locknet: How China Controls Its Internet and Why It Matters

New research by Laura Edelson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, studies China’s “Great Firewall”.

The Summer Job, a Rite of Passage for Teens, May Be Fading Away

Uncertainty about the economy is a major reason, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University in Boston. 
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/06/30/survey-americans-back-boosting-medical-research-funding

The nationwide survey from the Civic Health and Institutions Project, which is made up of researchers from Rutgers, Harvard and Northeastern Universities as well as the University of Rochester, asked respondents about their views on cuts to grant funding at the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation as well as layoffs at science […]
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Adults 65-Plus Now Outnumber Kids in 11 States

“The number of years a given individual lives over 65 has been steadily increasing,” says Mindy Marks, an economics professor at Northeastern University. “That’s going to make that group a larger and larger share of any population block.”
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U.S. Dollar Dips to Three-Year Low. Here’s What That Means for You

“The institutional quality that the U.S. had in terms of being a safe haven has been really undermined,” says Bilge Erten, a professor of economics at Northeastern University. “Why would you invest in U.S. assets when you know that the U.S. dollar is likely to continue to lose value?”
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Map Shows 11 States Where Older Americans Outnumber Children

Explaining why these states have more older adults than children, Mindy Marks, a professor of economics at Northeastern University, Massachusetts, told Newsweek “one reason is immigration,” or more precisely, a lack of it.
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That Chatbot May Just Be Telling You What You Want to Hear

Malihe Alikhani, an assistant professor of artificial intelligence at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and a visiting fellow at the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution, has been studying this phenomenon and investigating what happens when large language models parrot human inputs too eagerly.
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Axolotls Can Regenerate Limbs, and Scientists Are Finally Learning How

As Wired’s Ana Lagos reported, James Monaghan’s lab at Northeastern University has been probing the axolotl’s freakish regenerative talents, hoping to uncover secrets that could revolutionize human medicine and maybe even one day become walking, talking Ships of Theseus.
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Scientists want to regrow human limbs. Salamanders could lead the way.

Salamanders famously have the ability to regrow their limbs, but “one of the outstanding questions that has really plagued the field is how a salamander knows what to grow,” said James Monaghan, a Northeastern University biologist, to The Washington Post.
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A grim series of deaths across New England has sparked fears of a serial killer. Here’s what the authorities say.

In fact, the far-reaching geography makes a serial killer theory less likely, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.
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Business Optimism Collapses Under Trump

Peter Simon, professor at Northeastern University’s Department of Economics, told Newsweek that economic uncertainty “is still a big issue in the world given the new war between Israel and Iran and especially now that the US is involved.”