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The Conversation
Why some people receiving federal benefits don’t consider themselves poor
Cultural anthropology professor Sherri Lawson Clark’s research takes her into the homes and neighborhoods of people living in poverty in cities and rural communities throughout the U.S. “To better understand their day-to-day lives, I also have spent time in grocery stores, churches, nightclubs, parks and health clinics. I’ve asked countless questions…But of all the answers, none has perplexed me more than the one I receive when I ask, ‘Are you poor?’ Not one has ever answered yes,” she writes.
May 9, 2024
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Wake Forest junior awarded prestigious Pulitzer Fellowship
The Pulitzer Center has selected Melina Traiforos, a third-year English major and journalism and marketing communications minor, as Wake Forest’s 2024 Reporting Fellow. Traiforos will receive a $3,000 stipend to report on Black maternal health disparities and inequalities low-income women face in the health care system.
May 9, 2024
Yes! Weekly
Trevor Noah brings laughs, humanity to F2F series
Wake Forest University closed out its Season Three Face to Face Speaker Forum on April 30 with a sold-out crowd hanging on to every word that award-winning comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, television host, and author Trevor Noah had to say.
May 8, 2024
NC Newsline
A confluence of food hardship, poverty and housing shortens lifespans in Winston-Salem
This story is part of a series on food insecurity and possible solutions in Forsyth County, reported, written and photographed by Wake Forest University journalism students and was part of a semester-long class taught by Newsline Environmental Investigative Reporter and Assistant Editor Lisa Sorg.
May 7, 2024
There are 21 food deserts in Winston-Salem, a legacy of racist redlining that persists today
Another story in the series, “There are 21 food deserts in Winston-Salem, a legacy of racist redlining that persists today,” was written by Wake Forest student Hope Zhu.
May 7, 2024
WalletHub
Best & worst entry-level jobs in 2024
Mercy Eyadiel, assistant vice president and chief corporate engagement officer, answers questions on job trends this year. “Jobs that are most at risk are in manufacturing, data entry, customer service, retail, and manual labor due to the accelerated and disruptive changes brought about by AI and technology. However, new jobs will be created in fields like renewable energy, AI and machine learning, digital healthcare, and cybersecurity,” she said.
May 6, 2024
U.S. News & World Report
Should you let AI manage your retirement plan?
“Money can be a very emotional subject, and many financial decisions are not made in a spreadsheet,” said Mark Johnson, an investments and portfolio management fellow and professor at Wake Forest University School of Business. “AI can help make more objective financial decisions, but technology will not be able to apply a one-size-fits-all approach to financial planning because one-size-fits-all ends up fitting no one just right.”
May 5, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
NC sports wagering bills would ban prop bets on college sports
Sports economics Todd McFall said prop betting, especially on college games, does “two worrisome things when it comes to maintaining an environment in which gambling on games is more entertainment than a means for profit. First, it allows for those gambling on games to target specific players who didn’t meet a gambler’s expectations, and thus causing the gambler’s wager to fail. Second, prop bets open the window of players finding ways to profit from the gambling markets a little wider than when bets can only be made on outcomes.”
May 5, 2024
The Hill
Government remains essential for the nation’s financial stability and prosperity
“It is disappointing to know that American politics have not changed all that much between Hamilton’s day and the recent so far unsuccessful efforts by House Republicans to tie President Biden to the alleged financial misdealing by his son, Hunter,” writes law professor Sidney Shapiro.
May 3, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
A heckler tried to derail Trevor Noah’s speech at Wake Forest University. He answered her question.
Comedian Trevor Noah spent part of his speech Tuesday at Joel Coliseum talking with a heckler. “Why don’t you stand up for Palestine?” the woman yelled at Noah, a popular comedian and the former host of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.”“What are you shouting ma’am?” Noah asked the woman. The woman repeated her question. And Noah answered. “First of all, do you see what you are doing right now? You are not engaging me.
May 2, 2024
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Students use the performing arts to teach elementary schoolers
Inside of a second-grade classroom at Speas Global Elementary School, students learn science from a couple of special guests — students from Wake Forest. Theatre professor Brook Davis created the class more than 20 years ago. “I started to realize that there were a lot of theater students who ended up in classrooms…that didn’t have a lot of practical experience about how you work with students,” Davis said. “Then I started to hear from some education colleagues that they were also looking for ways to incorporate the arts or more creative activities in their classrooms. Davis and education professor Alan Brown created a course that merged the two groups to design creative and engaging ways to teach.
May 1, 2024
NPR
For birds, having siblings can be a matter of life or death
Biology professor David Anderson comments in this piece for this NPR series exploring the ways siblings can influence, sharing insights on his research on Nazca boobies in the Galápagos Islands. A Nazca booby incubates eggs with its webbed feet. In his research, Anderson would see nests with two chicks inside, a big chick and a little chick — but then the little one would disappear. “And I would frequently find it a meter, half-meter away from the nest site, just dead on the ground, apparently unrescued by the parents.”
May 1, 2024