Heller in the News
January 27, 2021
In Bloomberg, Tom Shapiro comments on President Biden's $10,000 student debt relief plan, saying such “minimal” relief would do nothing to narrow a 20-to-1 wealth gap between white and Black households with student debt.
Heller News Release
January 26, 2021
Formerly known as the Institute on Assets and Social Policy, IERE will continue to expand the institute’s focus on racial and economic equity in social policy. This name change is the culmination of a months-long visioning process led by newly appointed institute director, Maria Madison.
Heller in the News
January 26, 2021
On KCUR, Robert Kuttner says elites have accumulated enough wealth and power to be immune to the law, not unlike the feudal lords of medieval times.
Heller in the News
January 26, 2021
Health Exec cites the Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy's Child Opportunity Index data showing that parents in low-opportunity areas were more hesitant to bring their children to emergency rooms for COVID-19.
Heller in the News
January 25, 2021
In the New York Times, Dr. Sherri Young, EMBA'22, the health officer in Kanawha County, West Virginia, says the state needs more vaccines in order to reliably schedule vaccination clinics.
Heller in the News
January 25, 2021
BC News reports on a study by Monica O'Reilly-Jacob, PhD'18, and Jennifer Perloff, who surveyed nurse practitioners in Massachusetts about their perception of the impact of temporarily waived state practice restrictions on their care delivery during the initial surge of COVID-19.
Heller in the News
January 25, 2021
On WGBH, Robert Kuttner says President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion economic recovery plan doesn't pose much of an economic problem because interest rates are projected to remain so low for so long that massive new debt doesn't pose a threat.
Heller in the News
January 25, 2021
On WXXI, Robyn Powell, PhD'20, says the pandemic has exposed longstanding inequities that have always existed for parents and caregivers with disabilities as they navigate online schooling for their children.
Heller in the News
January 24, 2021
The Week highlights David Weil's comments on "Russian doll" arrangements, where more and more people work for staffing companies rather than regular employees, making it harder for workers to seek better work conditions and benefits.
Heller News Release
January 22, 2021
The committee is tasked with studying the causes and consequences of opportunity gaps for young children, and making recommendations on how to improve conditions and promote success for children at home, in communities and in schools.
Heller in the News
January 22, 2021
In KQED, David Weil says gig work companies are using the platform as a way to get out of the obligation of actually treating workers as employees, causing an erosion of workplace standards.
Heller News Release
January 21, 2021
Christine Bishop, the Atran Professor of Labor Economics, and Karen Donelan, the Stuart H. Altman Chair in U.S. Health Policy, provide unique perspectives on the precarious world of nursing home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
