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Psychology Today

Viral Humanity: Lessons From COVID-19

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on American society were complex. How the pandemic impacted racial and ethnic relations, and how differently its impact was felt by people of different races/ethnicities, of different socioeconomic classes, and in different “media silos,” are much-discussed topics.
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Welcome Back to the PSTC!

On Wednesday, September 24, the PSTC community gathered to commemorate the beginning of a new academic year.
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Center for Global Development

The $100,000 H-1B Fee That Could Derail “Made in America”

The Trump administration just made it $100,000 harder to bring talent into the United States. From now on, employers must pay a one-time $100,000 surcharge when they file an H-1B petition—the visa program companies use to hire skilled foreign workers.
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Americas Quarterly

Unlocking Ecuador’s Migrant Paradox

With the right policies in place, Venezuelan migrants could help the Noboa administration revitalize the economy, two experts write.
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Sociologist Susan Short gave a keynote address at the International Forum on Beijing +30: Gender Equality in Great Demographic Shifts. This UN event commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
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CNN This Morning with Audie Cornish

Where are they now? The people displaced by Katrina

Twenty years after hurricane Katrina, this big question remains. What happened to the million people who fled? Most never returned. And their journey reshaped the south.
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The American Sociological Association announced its Inaugural Policy Outreach Fellows this week, and Emily Rauscher was named one of the 10 sociologists who will meet over the next year with the aim of honing skills in communicating with the media and translating complex scientific information from sociological research into plain language for policymakers and the public.
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Sri Lanka Guardian

1 in 5 Can't Have Desired Number of Kids: UN

Despite declining fertility rates -- now below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman in more than half of all countries -- the desire for parenthood remains strong.
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Last month 31 men at Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, positioned their bodies in the shape of the letters “SOS,” a cry for help, as journalists flew overhead. Much has been written about the state of deportations under the Trump administration and the flouting of the Supreme Court’s orders, as well as the court’s temporary blocking of removals of Venezuelan migrants to a notorious prison complex in El Salvador. However, less has been said about how human rights violations are pervasive at detention centers all over the United States, including Bluebonnet.
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