Fed Rate Hike Likely To Impact Holiday Shopping, Says Whitman Retail Expert
October 1 kicks off the last fiscal quarter of the year, which includes the biggest retail spending period as well – the holiday shopping season. With the federal rate hike recently increased, how might consumer spending shift as the holiday…
Reviving Religion
Many reports, including this one from the Pew Research Center, say Christians could make up less than half of the U.S. population in the near future. The Rev. Brian Konkol, Ph.D., serves as Dean of Hendricks Chapel and Professor of…
Will China and Japan Ever Fully Reopen?
The people of China are once again outraged over the country’s zero-Covid policy. A quarantine bus crashed the other night, killing 27 people and leaving others in the hospital. As President Biden says “the pandemic is over” and other countries have relaxed…
COVID was deadlier for those with intellectual disabilities, according to new research
Authors of a new peer-reviewed paper have discovered that COVID was the leading cause of death for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in 2020. The study, “COVID-19 Mortality Burden and Comorbidity Patterns Among Decedents with and without Intellectual…
Gas-Powered Car Bans Won’t Work Without Infrastructure Investments
California lawmakers have passed a measure cracking down on the future sales of new gasoline cars. The rules call for the ban of new gas-powered cars by 2035, with target guidelines to phase out the cars in increments. It is…
Queen Elizabeth as one of the last connections with the WWII generation
For ongoing coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth and her legacy, please see comments from Syracuse University professor and historian Alan Allport. Allport specializes in the history of Britain in the period of the two world wars. His most…
Food Insecurity Has Worsened for the Elderly and Women Living Alone
Today, the USDA released the Household Food Security in the United States in 2021 detailing the level of food insecurity at the national level in 2021 indicating that the level of food insecurity, 10.2%, is unchanged from the level in…
National Dog Day: The Side We Don’t Speak About
National Dog Day is August 26, and normally we hear all about the fluffy feel-good stories; however, there is another side to the story that needs to be spoken about more. At Syracuse University, the Social Work and the Human-Animal…
Understanding Supervised Injection Sites
August 25, 2022. For immediate release This week, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed supervised injection sites in the state. The legislation would have allowed supervised injection sites to operate in Los Angeles, San Francisco…
New Research: “Reimagine Fire Science for the Anthropocene”
As wildfires cause increasing devastation worldwide, dozens of fire experts across the nation are joining together in calling for a more strategic and interdisciplinary approach to pursuing wildfire research and protecting vulnerable communities. The paper, “Reimagine Fire Science for the…