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Edward Stringham on Fed Policy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fox Business via American Institute for Economic Research website<\/p>\n

Video:<\/strong> Edward Stringham, <\/strong><\/a>Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation, speaking in his role as president of the American Institute for Economic Research, joins Fox Business to discuss the Federal Reserve’s most recent rate hike.<\/p>\n

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Divine seniors: How religion, spirituality sustain Long Islanders as they age<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Newsday<\/em><\/p>\n

…Barry Kosmin<\/strong><\/a>, research professor and director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College\u00a0in Hartford, Connecticut, attributes older individuals\u2019 \u201creligious behaviors and affiliations\u201d to the likelihood that they have more time on their hands than, say, \u201ca 30-year-old who takes kids to soccer practice\u201d on the weekend instead of attending services. What\u2019s more, for many older adults, going to church or synagogue is a ritual rooted in their childhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cOld habits die hard,\u201d said Kosmin, who also serves as the principal investigator of the university\u2019s American Religious Identification Survey Series, which tracks changes in the religious allegiances of the country\u2019s adults…<\/p>\n

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Beyond The U.S.-Mexico Border: A Look At Changes To U.S. Immigration Policy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Where We Live” – WNPR (Connecticut public radio)<\/p>\n

Podcast:<\/strong> Starting at 37:08, the podcast features in-studio guest\u00a0Abigail Fisher Williamson,<\/strong><\/a> Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Law at Trinity College, author of\u00a0Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation<\/em>\u00a0and coeditor of\u00a0The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations<\/em><\/p>\n

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Op-Ed: Your Dean Favors Experiential Liberal Arts: Now What?<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0– By\u00a0Jack Dougherty <\/strong><\/a>[Faculty Director of Community Learning at Trinity\u2019s Center for Hartford Engagement and Research (CHER)]\u00a0and\u00a0Megan Faver Hartline <\/strong><\/a>[Director of Community Learning at CHER]<\/p>\n

Campus Compact Southern New England<\/p>\n

Imagine this not-so-hypothetical scenario: You\u2019re a newer faculty member at a liberal arts college, and\u00a0your dean has published an op-ed essay\u00a0calling for \u201cexperiential\u201d liberal arts \u201cto break down the barrier between classroom learning and everyday life.\u201d But what exactly does \u201cexperiential\u201d mean, especially in academic disciplines without established traditions in laboratories, studios, or field work? Is this a meaningful foundational shift \u2014 or yet another higher education fad? How should newer faculty respond to this tension between philosophical aspirations of what liberal arts learning might become in the future versus pragmatic advice on how to survive and build your scholarly career over the next few years? \u2026<\/p>\n

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Carbon Dividend Act gets support from head of bishops’ justice office<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

National Catholic Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n

…In addition to being cast as too burdensome on consumers, carbon taxes have also drawn criticism as not doing enough as a response to the enormity of a challenge that climate change presents.<\/p>\n

Mark Silk<\/strong><\/a>, professor of religion in public life at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in a mid-December column for Religion News Service compared using a tax incentive to spur action on climate change to a hypothetical scenario where Abraham Lincoln, rather than abolishing slavery through a constitutional amendment, instead proposed a tax on the ownership of human beings, or where Franklin Roosevelt left pre-World War II mobilization to taxing automobiles to spur car factories to instead produce tanks and planes.<\/p>\n

“Taxation \u2014 incentivizing good behavior by jacking up the price of bad \u2014 deals with a problem indirectly, at one step removed,” Silk wrote, offering taxes on cigarettes as one example. “But where the bad behavior has led to a profound crisis, the indirect approach undermines urgency, making for cognitive dissonance.”\u2026<\/p>\n

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