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Heller News Release
September 10, 2024
Heller Students Awarded APPAM Equity & Inclusion Fellowships
PhD students Milagros Ramirez and Manning Zhang have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Equity & Inclusion Fellowship.
Heller in the News
August 16, 2024
Worcester health workers detect powerful animal tranquilizer mixed with opioids
On WGBH, Traci Green comments on the harmful effects of medetomidine.
Heller in the News
August 16, 2024
Economics According to Harris
In the American Prospect, Robert Kuttner calls Kamala Harris addressing corporate price-gouging, building housing, and helping families "good stuff and smart politics."
Heller in the News
August 08, 2024
Who is to blame for the Wall Street panic attack? The Federal Reserve.
In a Boston Globe opinion piece, Robert Kuttner argues that the Federal Reserve waited too long to cut interest rates.
Heller in the News
August 03, 2024
Who’s really at the wheel for Uber and Lyft? In many ways, AI.
In the Boston Globe, David Weil discusses his review of information from a recent lawsuit against the ride-hailing companies, which revealed the artificial intelligence behind the algorithms they use was far more sophisticated than he imagined.
Heller in the News
July 30, 2024
Kamala Harris Should Not Pick Mark Kelly for Veep
The New Republic comments about Kelly's record on labor, which includes voting against the Labor Department nomination of David Weil for wage and hour administrator in 2022.
Heller in the News
July 16, 2024
Nitazenes, opioids often more potent than fentanyl, emerge as new overdose threat in Mass.
Traci Green, director of Heller's Opioid Policy Research Collaborative, is quoted in a WBUR story.
Heller in the News
July 10, 2024
‘Data gaps’ limit understanding of how racial wealth gap affects generations differently
In the Boston Globe, Tatjana Meschede comments on the difficulty of obtaining data on wealth indicators.
Heller in the News
June 30, 2024
Six things to know about the state’s deal with Uber and Lyft
In the Boston Globe, David Weil comments on Massachusetts' deal to improve pay and benefits for Uber and Lyft drivers.
Heller in the News
June 13, 2024
Fantasyland General
In the American Prospect, Robert Kuttner writes about the lack of transparency in hospital pricing.
Heller in the News
June 05, 2024
Research Supports the Need to Recognize the Right to Free Early Childhood Education and Free Secondary Education
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia is among the scholars, experts, and researchers on the education, development, wellbeing, and rights of children and adolescents who signed a letter expressing their support for a new optional protocol to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child focused on the right to free education.
Heller in the News
June 05, 2024
Anarchy rules on Boston streets. Here’s one way to stop it.
In a Boston Globe op-ed, Robert Kuttner discusses the use of automated video traffic cameras.