Restaurants in New York City and other city centers around the country are making plans to reopen for reduced-capacity indoor dining. Lilly Jan, senior lecturer of food and beverage management at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell, says that restaurant operators should find creative ways to resume indoor dining while considering maintaining viable options for outdoor dining as well.

Food & Agriculture

School of Hotel Administration

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Grocery stores and food retailers are stockpiling products to prepare for another widespread outbreak of COVID-19 cases amidst the already busy holiday season rush. Edward McLaughlin, professor of food industry management and an expert in the efficiency of food distribution systems says food companies, anticipating another potential wave of COVID-19, are putting previous demand buying models aside and are now sending staple goods to grocery stores, even without an order.

Food & Agriculture

Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

Economics and Business

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The latest monthly employment report to be released on Friday will help show how fast the U.S. economy is rebounding, amidst renewed discussions in Congress over a second stimulus check. Erica Groshen is senior economics advisor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is a former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and has written extensively on how economies can recover from recessions. 

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

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On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its monthly jobs report for September 2020. Russell Weaver, an economic geographer, says the September 2020 jobs report is likely to show small gains, but New York state is still lagging behind the rest of the nation.

Industrial and Labor Relations

New York State

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Steve Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School and co-author of a leading 21-volume immigration law series, compares what Trump paid in federal income taxes in 2016 with what undocumented immigrants pay. 

Law and Policy

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Alexandra Cirone, professor of government at Cornell University says there are many things people can do to protect themselves against the misinformation that floods social media in the aftermath of election-related events like presidential debates.

Law and Policy

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Landon Schnabel, assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University, says that for highly religious American women like Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, their religious identity trumps their gender identity when it comes to reproductive politics.

Law and Policy

Arts & Humanities

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Protests continued in Thailand on Friday after parliament failed to reach an agreement on possible constitutional reforms. Demonstrators have been taking to the streets since July in an effort to pressure parliament to limit the powers of the country’s monarchy. Tamara Loos, professor of history and Thai studies at Cornell University, says that the rallies highlight how Thai society has changed its approach to politics, and the monarchy. 

International

Arts and Sciences

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Steve Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School, comments on new regulations published by the Department of Homeland Security targeting international students. 

Law and Policy

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Arthur Wheaton, an expert on the automotive industry at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations comments on a new move by the State of California to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars in 2035.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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