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Business Insider
Gen Z like ‘safety capitalism”
Christina Elson, the executive director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism at Wake Forest University, told Business Insider that many young people had embraced an idea she calls “safety capitalism.” Elson said: “The issue is the bottom. What is the appropriate bottom living standard for an American citizen, and what role should the government have in ensuring that people don’t fall below that?”
February 28, 2024
EWTN: Kresta in the Afternoon
Senior Fellow and economics professor Robert Whaples, editor of “Pope Francis and the Caring Society” and “Is Social Justice Just?,” discusses the federal government’s budget and its deficit. The national debt is $34 trillion, which is larger than the GDP. Interest rates have also increased dramatically. What are the ramifications of this and what should we do about it?
February 28, 2024
Business Recorder
Longer working hours, productivity: there is no correlation
People used to work around 70 hours per week in the 1800s. With 6 days a week that amounts to almost 12 hours per day. But as things improved the work hours began to decrease. Economics professor Robert Whaples, has prepared a detailed timeline of this evolution. The modern day workday was established by Henry Ford at Ford Motor Company in 1926 where people worked 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
February 27, 2024
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
New study shows North Carolina rail’s economic impact
A new report breaks down the impact of North Carolina’s rail system on the state’s economy. “There’s literally no way we have right now of transporting goods across land that has a lower carbon footprint than trains,” said economics Associate Teaching Professor Todd McFall. “So, the extent to which we can use trains to our advantage will be good in terms of environmental protections so long as we maintain safety standards that are going to stop things from spilling or contaminating waterways or agricultural areas.”
February 27, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Are you a woman 50 or older and overweight? Join this university study
According to Health and Exercise Science professor Shannon Mihalko, knee osteoarthritis (OA) ranks as the third most common diagnosis for hospital inpatient stays. It’s also the leading cause of disability among adults, affecting women at nearly twice the rate as men. Plus, interventions designed to slow or stop knee OA progression have failed.
February 27, 2024
Mirage News
Weight loss, exercise may ward off osteoarthritis in women
In an extensive clinical study spanning two continents, Wake Forest University researchers will determine whether the most common treatments for osteoarthritis – weight loss and exercise – also help prevent women from developing the degenerative joint disease.
February 26, 2024
NPR
This is what happens when a wind farm comes to a coal town
Economist Mark Curtis at Wake Forest University in North Carolina has studied this shift in the workforce.”We found that of workers that were leaving fossil fuel jobs, less than 2% ended up in a renewable energy job,” he said. “In a place like West Virginia, it was even smaller than that. Approximately a quarter percent of workers that left fossil fuel jobs were going to renewable energy jobs.”
February 26, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Mark Robinson, Josh Stein remain favorites for North Carolina governor in latest poll
“Certainly, a number of Republican activists and officials are looking strongly at alternatives to Mark Robinson as a gubernatorial candidate,” said politics professor John Dinan. “Dale Folwell has the most extensive governing experience of any candidate in the Republican field, as well as a record of governance that could be expected to appeal to a wide group of Republicans and also unaffiliated voters in a general election campaign.”
February 26, 2024
Business News Articles
W. Clark Goodman has been inducted into the Marquis Who’s Who Biographical Registry
Mr. Goodman also applies his experience as a dispute resolution attorney in his capacity as an adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Law, where he teaches courses in domestic and international arbitration.
February 23, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Biden allocates $361M for NC’s essential water infrastructure
Stan Meiburg, executive director of Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University, described the allocation as a “lifetime opportunity” for North Carolina. “In my own career, I’ve never seen the kind of money that was available in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for this purpose,” Meiburg said. “It’s just good news all the way around.”
February 23, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
North Carolina’s policy targets for carbon emission reduction are expected to face challenges as Duke Energy seeks to postpone its originally proposed goal by five years. “The argument is largely about timing and speed. If the question is: is it going to make a difference getting to 70% reduction by 2035, as opposed to 2030? That’s a very hard question to answer, because it depends on the context and in the context of total global emissions,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability.
February 23, 2024
KERA News (Dallas, TX)
How one tech startup aims to disrupt the market for illegal rhino horns
“That’s exactly what I’m talking about in terms of creating confusion in the market for rhino horns using the synthetic horns,” said economics professor Fred Chen, who shared that the confusion caused by synthetic rhino horns could bring the value of the real horns down. “Or maybe if I do decide to buy something because I’m not certain it’s the real thing, maybe I don’t want to pay as much.”
February 22, 2024