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WFMY
New jobs, unemployment, IRS Form 1099-G: What you need to look out for
The Wake Forest Law Pro Bono Project helps residents get legal assistance while helping students increase their legal skills. Wake Forest University School of Law students, working under the supervision of faculty members, will offer no-cost guidance and consultation to North Carolina residents who have questions about unemployment insurance and federal supplements.
January 8, 2021
CNBC
Congress approves $25 billion in rental assistance. Here’s how to apply
“While this is a critical start, these provisions will not end the eviction crisis and will not help all renters who desperately need rental assistance to protect their families from harm,” said Emily Benfer, Wake Forest visiting law professor. Since mid-November, Benfer’s comments on the eviction crisis have appeared in The Nation, Fast Company, Aljazeera, The Hill, US News & World Report, WebMD, ABC News, Popular Science, WENY (New York) and the Associated Press.
January 7, 2021
The Caswell Messenger
Governor announces appointments to boards and commissions
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper appointed Allison Matthews to the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission as a member-at-large. Mathews is the associate director of Integrating Special Populations (ISP) in the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity (MACHE) at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and is an adjunct assistant professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University.
January 7, 2021
CNBC
What a Democratic-controlled Congress could mean for renters struggling amid the pandemic
With Democrats securing a majority in the Senate, a number of relief measures targeted at renters struggling amid the pandemic – including a right to counsel for those facing eviction and a larger pot of money for back rent – now have a better chance of materializing. “Democrats have a rare opportunity to directly and swiftly end the eviction crisis and prevent severe harm to renters and landlords nationwide,” said Emily Benfer, a visiting law professor at Wake Forest University.
January 6, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
Burr: Trump and his ‘unfounded conspiracy theories’ to blame for events at U.S. Capitol
John Dinan, a political-science professor at Wake Forest, said that Wednesday’s events in Washington are unprecedented. “It is difficult to come up with any precedent in modern U.S. history for the mob behavior on display (Wednesday).”
January 6, 2021
MIT Sloan Management Review
How COVID-19 is disrupting data analytics strategies
Some consumer goods companies have been reaching for hurricane planning models that have plans with variables like how broad-reaching the hurricane is going to be and which distribution centers should receive extra goods. “That same kind of thing might be transferable to the pandemic,” said Jeffrey Camm, a professor and associate dean of business analytics at Wake Forest.
January 5, 2021
NPR
Are ads against Ga. Senate candidate also an attack on Black churches
Steve Inskeep on NPR’s “Morning Edition talks to Jonathan Lee Walton, dean of Wake Forest School of Divinity, about the political ads taken out against Georgia Senate runoff candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock. “It’s about keeping track of the most vulnerable in society. I believe that Raphael Warnock is standing on the shoulders of those like Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., like Reverend A.D. Williams, Martin Luther King Jr.’s grandfather, all of these towering progressive pastors that have been in this grand lineage of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta,” Walton said.
January 5, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
“We don’t have much in the way of precedent for determining how the public tends to view these challenges,” said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest. “The one thing that can be said with near certainty is that this year’s challenge by some Republican (congressional) members to multiple states’ electoral votes in the 2020 election is bound to be unsuccessful, just as Democratic (congressional) members’ challenge to Ohio’s electoral votes after the 2004 election was ultimately unsuccessful, given the lack of sufficient support in Congress for these challenges.”
January 5, 2021
MSNBC
How attacks on a Georgia Senate candidate exposed wider misunderstandings about the Black church
“Black communities of faith have always been at the forefront of emancipating American democracy and expanding narrow notions of freedom,” said Jonathan Lee Walton, the Dean of Wake Forest School of Divinity. “At their best…they’ve constituted a moral conscience of this nation. When you hear preachers like Raphael Warnock challenge this nation, it’s not based upon some level of a lack of patriotism; to the contrary, it’s American as the stars and stripes.”
January 3, 2021
The Common Reader
The most important and most neglected virtue
“Brutal honesty can be a vice, not a virtue,” said Wake Forest philosophy professor Christian Miller. “What has to go alongside honesty is another virtue: tact. Virtues should go in packages.”
January 3, 2021
News & Record
$7.25 an hour has been state’s minimum wage for 12th consecutive year
“State minimum-wage increases have been passed either by Democratic-controlled legislatures or through citizen-initiated ballot measures in states that allow the public to bypass legislative opposition and place measures directly on the ballot,” said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest who is a national expert on state legislatures.
January 2, 2021
90.7 WFAE (Charlotte)
Black doctors use social media to share accurate information about COVID-19 vaccine
“We’ve used conference lines as well as mailed stuff out to people. You have to meet people where they are in whatever level of communication is the most convenient for them,” said Allison Mathews, a sociologist at Wake Forest who is researching how to increase trust in COVID vaccines.
January 1, 2021