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Need help with unemployment insurance
Wake Forest School of Law has a new project that may be able to help you with your unemployment claim. The School of Law has created a Pro Bono project together to help folks struggling with getting their unemployment benefits. Students will work under the supervision of faculty members and offer guidance and consultation at no charge for the service.
October 27, 2020
Barron's
Yale’s Swensen tells money managers to step up diversity hiring. Expect other investors to follow
In 2018, Verger Capital Management began surveying its 89 money managers about their investment policies on environmental, social and governance issues. “It’s a continued effort,’’ said Jim Dunn, CEO and chief investment officer for Verger, which manages investments for nonprofit clients, including Wake Forest. “We want to know how our managers think about these issues, and now it’s become a normal discussion.”
October 26, 2020
Grist
Will COVID-19 give Santa Ana officials an excuse to ignore the city’s lead crisis
“The evidence underscores what we’ve known: that lead is a pathway by which racial inequality literally gets into the bloodstream, and that lead exposure of this magnitude cannot be resolved by reactive and siloed interventions,” said Emily Benfer, health and housing justice expert and visiting professor at Wake Forest School of Law. Benfer said it’s urgent that Santa Ana officials act quickly and focus on primary prevention solutions, which means finding the environmental source before a child is ever exposed to lead.
October 26, 2020
Stockinvestor.com
Not everyone succumbed to the financial bubble
BB&T Bank never had a losing quarter during the 2008 financial crisis. That’s because John Allison, retired chairman and CEO of BB&T and current Wake Forest professor, insisted that the bank would not violate the “prudent man” rule of lending. His bank refused to offer subprime loans during the real-estate boom of the 2000s. The bank gave up the chance to make lucrative profits during this time, but Allison’s prudent strategy turned out to be the right course for the long term, while other aggressive banks collapsed and needed a federal bailout.
October 26, 2020
The Nation
Checking the systems that hold us back
Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest professor of politics and Maya Angelou presidential chair, and Dorian Warren, president of Community Change, launched a podcast on “The Nation.” The podcast, titled “System Check,” asks important questions about the state of our democracy and offers provocative commentary.
October 26, 2020
High Point Enterprise
Who benefits from rush to polls
“I don’t think we know for sure whether higher turnout helps one party or the other,” said John Dinan, professor of political science at Wake Forest. “The one thing we can say about higher turnout for presidential elections is that it creates a lot of unpredictability for candidates running in down-ballot races because a number of new or only occasional voters who are drawn to vote in 2020 are likely to be focused mostly on the presidential election.”
October 25, 2020
Forbes
Student leaders are expanding early voting on campuses nationwide
“For the first time this election, a new One-Stop-Early Voting site was approved to serve students and our wider community,” said Wake Forest senior Izzy McMahon. “To encourage turnout, we are hosting a daily “March to the Polls,” where campus figureheads, organizations, and clubs walk students to the new polling site.”
October 23, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag, Wake Forest Baptist’s chief executive and medical school dean, said about the $3.4 billion in capital investments “not only will this improve care delivery, it will also have a tremendous, positive effect on our Local and statewide economy.” Nathan Hatch, president of Wake Forest, said the collaboration will “create the future of medical education … becoming one of the largest educators of physicians and other medical professionals in the state.” The goal is educating more than 3,500 total students across more than 100 specialized programs each year.
October 23, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Pastor accused of urinating on woman on Delta flight still not ID’d
Ronald Wright, professor of criminal law at the Wake Forest School of Law, said that federal authorities likely are using an exception outlined in the federal Freedom of Information Act regarding criminal law enforcement matters. “In the short run, they are saying that they can withhold the (pastor’s) name until the court process gets underway,” said Wright, a former attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice. “Once the case gets filed in federal court, the records themselves are public.”
October 23, 2020
Stacker
100 colleges whose grads go on to earn the most
Wake Forest appeared on Stacker’s list of the colleges whose graduates earn the most. Wake Forest graduates are in high demand, with 98% employed or in grad school six months after graduation.
October 22, 2020
Sun Port Charlotte
You know you want to look: Grad student has made a specialty of morbid curiosity
This basic urge — to look at what we know we probably shouldn’t look at — may even contain a more basic desire to empathize. In his 2012 book “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can’t Look Away,” Eric Wilson, an English professor at Wake Forest who specializes in the link between literature and psychology, argued our itch to stare into a horror may be partly about recognizing some primal connection with those who have suffered.
October 22, 2020
90.7 WFAE (Charlotte)
North Carolina’s Gen Z Latinos could play big role in the 2020 election
“Right now, the top three issues that are of concern to the Latino electorate at the national level and in North Carolina are jobs/the economy first, then immigration and health care,” said Wake Forest political science professor Betina Cutaia Wilkinson. “In 2016, 30% stated that they’d be willing to vote for a Republican candidate if the Republican candidate proposed a pathway to citizenship to unauthorized immigrants,” Wilkinson said. “That sheds light on the fact that it’s not a done-deal that Democrats can count on Latinos, the Latinx community, for now and forever.”
October 21, 2020