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Green Transitions in a COVID Economy
Get PDFAs many elements of a Green New Deal languished in Congress, economic policy took dramatic turns instead to address a different crisis: the Covid-19 pandemic. This Essay explores the way in which legal and policy responses to Covid-19 in the United States—particularly as discourse has focused on the impacts of Covid-19 response on labor markets—may provide insight into the political economy of a Green New Deal. New federal spending toward a just transition is structurally much easier to accomplish than developing new regulatory policy through legislation or executive action and avoids judicial policing of administrative authority
How africa could be american publisher\u27s new china: Examining the positives in africa as an alternative for book printing.
No full textInspiring a moral approach in the publishing industry: Where to draw the line on free speech?
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The Age of Fraud
Get PDFWe think of scams primarily as a problem for older adults. Indeed, in the past few years, states and the federal government have undertaken a range of legal actions designed to prevent seniors, as a distinct class, from scams-- from more harshly punishing perpetrators of scams directed towards older adults to authorizing financial institutions to closely monitor and rapidly freeze the accounts of their older clients. But this successful, popular, and bipartisan law reform movement has taken place without a thorough empirical understanding of whether, in fact, seniors fall victim to scams more frequently than other age groups.
This study analyzed whether older adults were victimized by scams more frequently than younger adults during roughly the first year of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. A group of Americans 65 and older (n = 364) and a group ages 25-35 (n = 388) were recruited online and asked to complete a short survey about their experiences with frauds and scams during the pandemic. The results were statistically analyzed to assess whether there were any differences in how the two groups were solicited by, engaged with, and aware of consequences from four specific common scams of the pandemic, and additional scams not specifically described.
The results unsettle conventional wisdom on the shape of scam victimization. The younger group engaged with scams three times more frequently than the older group, and this disparity was statistically significant (12% to 4%; c2 = 16.41; p = .000051). Moreover, more younger adults engaged with scams than older adults as a percentage of those who had been solicited--that is, younger adults were more susceptible to scams. Although further research is required, in designing legal and policy solutions to the challenge of frauds and scams, we must acknowledge that the problem may not be limited to--nor even be most prevalent among--seniors
Death by Committee: Reviving Federal Environmental Justice Legislation to Mitigate Disproportionate Impacts on Vulnerable Communities
Get PDFThis Note proposes legislation that provides an avenue for protecting the right to a clean and healthy environment by requiring agencies to consider vulnerable communities before initiating large-scale federal projects. Part I lays out the emergence of environmental justice issues in the United States, including its turning point. Part II introduces both successful and failed attempts at federal environmental justice legislation and analyzes why federal environmental justice legislation continuously fails. Part III dis- cusses how executive environmental justice action becomes pointless to the overall progression of environmental justice and examines President Biden’s progress in the first year of his presidency. Finally, Part V proposes specific language Congress should include in the proposed legislation and asserts why congressional action is the correct avenue for substantive environmental justice legislation. Part V additionally compares three governing documents—the National Environmental Policy Act, Executive Order 12898, and the New Jersey Environmental Justice law—to the proposed legislation in this Note
To Search or Not to Search: Examining Factors that Affect Adoptees’ Decision to Seek Out Their Birth Parents
No full textThe phenomenon of searching for birth parents by adoptees has been explored over the last few decades, however, limited attention has been paid to the factors that influence adoptees to search or not to search. The limited established literature on this topic has shown that the outcomes of adoptees developing or attempting to develop relationships with their birth parents are more often negative. As such, it would be helpful to better understand the underlying factors (e.g., demographic factors. attitude towards adoption, attachment style, relationship with adoptive parents) that might motivate an adoptee to search vs not search for their birth parents. Participants (N=328) completed an online survey including the Measure of Attachment Questionnaire (MAQ), the Parental Bonding Inventory (PBI) and the Adoption Dynamic Questionnaire (ADQ). Two-way ANOVAs and linear regression were used to examine whether gender, age of finding out one is adopted, being of a different ethnic background from adoptive parents, secure attachment, perceived care of adoptive parents and attitude towards adoption had any effect on the choice to search for one’s birth parents or not. As hypothesized, it was found that adoptees are more likely to search for their birth parents if they are of a different ethnic background than their adoptive parents, are more preoccupied with their own adoption, and score lower on perceived care of adoptive parents. Contrary to the hypotheses, searchers also score higher on secure attachment and lower on positive affect towards adoption. An interaction affect was found between gender and search group when looking at scores on the MAQ, PBI and ADQ subscales. These findings have important implications for future research on adoptees and for counselors working with this population and what leads to the choice to search for birth parents or not
Zoning and city revenues: Does euclidean zoning impact cities\u27 Tax Revenues?
Get PDFThis paper is primarily concerned with measuring the impact of zoning for single family residential on city tax revenues within the San Francisco Bay Area. Single family residential zoning acts as a form of Euclidean zoning by restricting zoned land to one type or use. In the wake of decisions of cities such as Minneapolis to end zoning for single family housing, there has been a push for more research into the possible impacts going forward. This paper takes cross-sectional data from 2020 for 101 cities within the Bay Area. To estimate the impact of zoning on city tax revenues, this paper utilizes OLS regression models with robust standard error to help account for heteroskedasticity. The final model used found a negative causal impact of single family residential zoning on tax revenues. It was estimated that if a city had more than 80% zoned for single family residential that they would face a decrease of $82,783,312.90 in tax revenue. These findings were shown to be significant at the 10% level. In addition, multiple control variables were found to have statistically significant impacts on city tax revenues
Supporting Intervention Fidelity of Dialogic Reading to Support Preschool Children’s Early Literacy Skills
Get PDFEarly literacy skills are key indicators of later reading success, and early literacy instruction in early childhood education can support both positive academic and behavioral child outcomes. Dialogic reading (DR) is an evidence-based intervention that targets early literacy skills like oral language, vocabulary, and print concepts. Although research suggests DR has the potential to impact the early literacy skills of young children, intervention fidelity must be maintained for the intervention to be effective. Two single case design studies were conducted in an early childhood setting that together examined (a) the effects of intervention supports on the intervention fidelity of educators performing interventions, and (b) early child literacy outcomes when educators accessed DR intervention supports. Study 1, an alternating treatment design, focused on intervention scripts and an intervention checklist on intervention fidelity. Findings indicated that both supports equivalently increased educators’ (N = 4) intervention fidelity, though the educators preferred using a checklist. Study 2, a multiple baseline design, examined the effects of the intervention supports and subsequent increased intervention fidelity on child early literacy across four children. Findings indicated increased book-based vocabulary for children during the intervention phase when intervention fidelity levels were higher. Taken together, the studies suggest intervention fidelity for DR is best delivered with support from checklists or other methods, and that ensuring that DR is delivered as intended may help bolster children’s reading skills