“Research has shown companies that pay higher wages have lower turnover, which can raise productivity through lower search, training, absentee and vacancy costs and higher morale,” says Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor at the ILR School. “So, there is a benefit to the companies that can mitigate the apparent higher costs of raising wages.” 

Joseph Margulies, professor of practice in government and law, provides historical background on citizen’s arrest laws. 

“Employers are having to wait a long time to get their petitions approved, and renewals are not being processed in a timely manner,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of law. “It’s going to take a long time for them to work through the backlog.” 

“Our entire history of North America is basically written in terms of the European perspective,” says Sturt Manning, professor of arts & sciences in classics. “Up until very recently, we’ve dated indigenous sites on the basis of what European goods they had or did not have.” 

“This will come at an economic cost to employers and therefore the economy, and I think that may be why Biden has gone a little silent,” says Ariel Avgar, associate professor in the ILR School.

“People feel like they contributed a lot during the depths of the pandemic and now they’re looking for some of the returns when the economy’s doing better and companies are doing better – profits are up, stock prices are up,” says Alex Colvin, dean of the ILR School. “We’re seeing similar effects going on with quit rates going up, people more willing to leave their jobs now and look for something better.” 

“There’s another opportunity that supports both reducing greenhouse gas emissions and using fuels while also benefiting agriculture,” says Todd Schmit, associate professor of applied economics and policy. 

Joseph Margulies, professor of practice in law and government, discusses citizen arrest laws. 

“It’s hard to imagine how this jeopardizes national security,” says Doug Kriner, professor of government, about releasing documents from the Trump administration. “It doesn’t involve a current ongoing administration that might be harmed in any way, and it doesn’t even involve the right to frank and open conversation between the president and other advisers within the administration.”

“China’s growth momentum has taken a sharp hit from the combination of deleveraging, squeeze on property speculation, and energy shortages,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy.

“This is one of the hardest problems in machine learning,” says J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication. “It’s also an area that so many companies and policy makers have just decided was going to be the solution—without understanding the problem.” 

“In any media industry, the newest, coolest thing sees the highest uptake among younger generations,” says Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communication. “We’re in a cultural moment where people just seem to be getting tired of the aspirational, performative culture of Instagram.”