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The mentally ill are overall less violent than the rest of the population. Given the funding proposed by the president, they are also unlikely to receive the medical and psychiatric care they so badly need and... Read more...
25 February 2018
Article by Laurent Bouton, Paola Conconi, Francisco Pino, Maurizio Zanardi This column on the “gun-control paradox”—the fact that gun regulations continually fail in the US Congress d... Read more...
22 February 2018
Gianmarco Ottaviano of the London School of Economics and Giovanni Peri of UC, Davis, looking at U.S. labor markets, estimate that between 1990 and 2006 new immigrants reduced wages of previous immigrants by a... Read more...
30 January 2018
Nevertheless, manufacturers see cause for optimism. The U.S. economy has added some 41,000 manufacturing jobs since February, and large firms such as GM and Hyundai have announced new investments in U.S. facto... Read more...
18 May 2017
Dennis Novy gave a live TV interview to Al Jazeera. The topic was the confirmation of Steven Mnuchin as the new U.S. Treasury Secretary. The interview covered the proposed U.S. tax reforms and how changes to f... Read more...
14 February 2017
Robert Peston speaks to Gabriel Zucman and other policymakers and opinion shapers, discussing inequality in the US and around the globe. The programme was broadcast by the BBC World Service on March 4, 2015 Link to... Read more...
04 March 2015