A new research paper co-authored by Ina Ganguli finds that international students in chemistry prefer to stay in the U.S. for postdoctoral research. Overall the study finds foreign students have a stronger preference for academic careers than U.S. students. “Our results suggest the U.S. is managing to retain talented foreign graduate students for postdoc positions,” the report says. (Inside Higher Ed, 7/24/18)
Month: September 2018
The Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy, the group behind a clean energy and economic equity ballot initiative in Washington State, used an economic analysis by Robert Pollin and a team from from the Political Economy Research Institute to develop the measure. Initiative 1631 calls for massive reductions in CO2 emissions, carbon emission fees for big polluters and job retraining for workers in fossil fuel-reliant industries. (The Nation, 7/20/18)
Friedman’s advocacy for a single-payer health care system in New York is mentioned in a column in The Buffalo News. (The Buffalo News, 7/14/18)