Tag: immigrants
Hiring highly educated immigrants leads to more innovation and better products
Gaurav Khanna, University of California San Diego and Munseob Lee, University of California San Diego
Much of the current debate over immigration is about what...
A rare instance when preventative screening is worth the dollar cost
David Hutton, University of Michigan
Very few people know about hepatitis B, the so-called silent killer, and the billions of dollars it costs the U.S....
What can we learn from the way graduates are decorating their...
Sheila Bock, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
For college students across the country, commencement formally marks the transition from student to graduate. Per tradition, most...
Why a census question about citizenship should worry you, whether you’re...
Michael Blake, University of Washington
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced last week that the 2020 census will include a question about citizenship. Ross argued that...
Why are fewer and fewer Americans fixing their noses?
Laurie Essig, Middlebury College
Americans love cosmetic surgery.
Last year in the U.S., there were 1.8 million plastic surgeries and nearly 16 million nonsurgical procedures, like...
How ‘dreamers’ and green card lottery winners strengthen the US economy
Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College
While President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have long decried illegal immigration and proposed remedies like the wall and mass...
Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants 90 years ago: Why the global...
Moshik Temkin, Harvard University
Ninety years ago, on Aug. 23, 1927, two Italian immigrants were executed.
The deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the...
How robots could help bridge the elder-care gap
Cynthia Matuszek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
