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Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Abortion advocates aim to outflank lawmakers in 2024 using ballot measures
Nationwide, 6 in 10 Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a June 2022 poll by the Pew Research Center. “Constitutional amendments have been underappreciated,” said politics professor John Dinan. “People tend to focus mainly on state litigation. But constitutional amendments are a far more durable way to ensure abortion rights than any court actions.”
This story also appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
November 26, 2022
Greensboro News & Record
For retailers, a lot is riding on this holiday shopping season
With Thanksgiving on the calendar a little earlier than normal this year, and with many brick-and-mortar retailers remaining closed on Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday weekend “takes on more significance this season than in the recent past,” said Roger Beahm, executive director of the Center for Retail Innovation at Wake Forest University School of Business. “Consumers remember well the restraint they had to endure through COVID and subsequent supply-chain shortages,” Beahm said. “As a result, they are now showing a desire to exercise newly gained shopping freedom. This momentum should be sufficient to carry through the upcoming holiday shopping season.”
November 24, 2022
Spectrum News Charlotte
College students repurpose food for meal donations
Ahead of Thanksgiving, students from the Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University used food that would otherwise be thrown away and community donations to make hundreds of meals for nonprofits across the Winston-Salem area.
November 23, 2022
Equitable Growth
Promoting sustainable U.S. economic growth and mitigating climate change
The estimated hundreds of thousands of green jobs created by both the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act are crucial for creating more equitable economic growth. In a recent paper, E. Mark Curtis of Wake Forest and Ioana Marinescu of the University of Pennsylvania develop a measure of green jobs—specifically, occupations in the solar and wind energy fields—and find these jobs benefit workers.
November 22, 2022
Carolina Journal
Happy 233rd Birthday Old North State
Colleges and universities serve a vital role in the state, including UNC Chapel Hill, East Carolina University, NC State University, Wake Forest University, and Duke University.
November 21, 2022
The New York Times
Cigars, booze, money: How a lobbying blitz made sports betting ubiquitous
During a commission hearing in 1998, one of the panel’s commissioners guesstimated illegal sports gambling at $80 to $380 billion dollars. “The number is pretty much pulled from the air,” said economics professor Koleman S. Strumpf, who has studied illegal gambling.
November 20, 2022
bakadesuyo.com
How to be happier without really trying
Barking Up the Wrong Tree looks at philosophy professor Emily Austin’s book, “Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life.”
November 20, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Holiday spending forecast: ‘Good, but not great’
“Consumers remember well the restraint they had to endure through COVID and subsequent supply-chain shortages. As a result, they are now showing a desire to exercise newly gained shopping freedom. This momentum should be sufficient to carry through the upcoming holiday shopping season,” said Roger Beahm, executive director of Wake Forest’s Center for Retail Innovation.
November 20, 2022
New York Magazine Intelligencer
What does an SAT score mean in a test-optional world?
In 2008, Wake Forest University became the first top-30 national university in the U.S. News & World Report rankings to go test optional; ten years later, the University of Chicago became the first top-ten university, and by 2019, more than a thousand colleges had gone test optional.
November 18, 2022
POLITICO Pro
Time running out for 3 Biden EPA nominees
Stan Meiburg, executive director of the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, said all three nominees should be confirmed. “And it could be done easily.” If the Senate doesn’t confirm Biden’s EPA picks before it adjourns, the president would have to renominate them after the Senate reconvenes in January. “You have to start over from the beginning.…that would be unfortunate,”
November 18, 2022
Medscape
Knee pain eased in community-based weight-loss programs
Patients who are overweight or obese with knee osteoarthritis can find relief from pain through diet and exercise programs conducted in recreation centers, local gyms, fitness centers and other places close to home. “Diet plus exercise was 20% more likely to attain a clinically important 2-point improvement in pain,” said health and exercise science professor Steve Messier.
November 18, 2022
Healio Cardiology
Adding resistance training to diet & exercise program may aid adults with obesit
Research shows that adding resistance training to caloric restriction and aerobic exercise training is safe and does not adversely impact cardiac or arterial structure and function in older adults with obesity. “Clinicians should consider adding supervised resistance training to improve skeletal muscle strength and muscle quality of older patients with obesity,” said health and exercise science professor Peter H. Brubaker.
November 18, 2022