Global Public Health Program Director Philip Landrigan, M.D., writes on health threats related to the dismantling of environment protections in a piece for the New England Journal of Medicine. | He also weighed in on the impact of air pollution on the Pittsburgh area: The Conversation.
Irish Institute Director Mary C. Murphy and Bill Forry '95 of the Dorchester Reporter joined WBUR's Morning Edition at the end of St. Patrick's Day week to reflect on the past and future of Irish American political identity in Boston.
U.S. employers cut 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%. Economics faculty member Brian Bethune comments: AP, Marketplace. |He commented in USA Today on interest rates, and discussed the economic impact of the Iran war with WCVB-TV Ch. 5 and CNN.com.
BC School of Social Work Associate Professor Thomas Byrne, coauthor of a study that examined age in relation to homelessness, comments on the housing challenges now facing older adults: Boston Globe.
The widely used herbicide is under scrutiny as President Trump signed an executive order to protect its national supply. Global Public Health Program Director Philip Landrigan, M.D., who recently discussed the health risks of glysophate on CNN.com, comments: THV11 Little Rock; KXLY Spokane
BC Law Professor Ray Madoff, author of The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy, writes on wealth and taxation in an op-ed for The Economist, and was interviewed on the subject by a columnist for the New York Times.