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Prof. Chloe East on Next with Kyle Clark

March 3, 2025

CU Denver Economics Professor Chloe East spoke with Angeline McCall on Next with Kyle Clark about the “Day Without Immigrants” protests and the impact migrants and deportations have on the economy.

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Jennifer Reich Weighs in on RFK Jr as the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services in The Atlantic

Feb. 28, 2025

Jennifer Reich, a professor at the University of Colorado Denver , says his vaccine skepticism, tied to autism, is part of a broader set of concerns among parents. For him to shift in these views, it would mean abandoning his general distrust of science. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new...

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The Oregonian Quotes Mia Fischer in "How Riley Gaines became the right’s darling on anti-trans issues in sports: Analysis"

Feb. 25, 2025

“There’s clearly a lot of media training that these people have received,” says Fischer, noting that the right-wing’s selection of white, traditionally feminine girls and young women is likely intentional. “If we think about traditional gender norms, they fulfill all these signifiers that we traditionally associate with feminine white athletes...

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The Forward Features Article by Dr. Philip Joseph

Feb. 24, 2025

In the story of my Jewish family’s migration from Europe to America in the 1930s, my grandmother has always been portrayed as the supreme realist. Eyes wide open to the growing danger, with two young children in tow, she uprooted herself from Luxembourg after Hitler’s invasion of Austria in 1938...

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Rich Allen Featured in "The Hidden Utility of the Liberal Arts"

Feb. 3, 2025

What do you do with a major in French? Or philosophy, history, or English? This is the question at the heart of all the challenges that now bedevil liberal-arts departments on campuses across the country, a problem once dubbed the “translation chasm.”

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The Denver Post Features Insights from Dr. James Walsh on Colorado's Labor Peace Act

Jan. 31, 2025

Indeed, the passage of the Labor Peace Act more than 81 years ago was not the result of a grand bargain between unions and businesses, said James Walsh, a University of Colorado Denver political science professor who specializes in labor history. “If you look at the notes from the Colorado...

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NPR's Planet Money Interviews Dr. Chloe East on the "Chilling Effect" of Deportations

Jan. 31, 2025

"Chloe East is an associate professor of economics at University of Colorado Denver, and she has spent many years studying deportations. And she says it's worth noting that so much of the attention this week has been around these raids, and raids are just one strategy that the government uses...

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Scientific American Cites CU Denver Biologist in Recent Article, "Migrating Birds Sing to Team Up with Other Species"

Jan. 31, 2025

Flying in the dark presents challenges to airborne cooperation, notes biologist Allison Pierce, who studies plover migration at University of Colorado Denver and was not involved in the new paper. For example, visual cues such as another bird’s flight path are absent. “If we could take it from this big...

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POLITICO Refers to Dr. Chloe East's Research in Article: "Americans hate high prices. Mass deportations could spark new surges."

Jan. 20, 2025

Earlier research led by University of Colorado Denver Professor Chloe East found that the suppression of undocumented workers led to spillover effects that weakened demand for U.S.-born laborers within local economies.

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NYT Features Research by Economic Professors Velasquez, Mansour, and East

Dec. 10, 2024

Expelling noncitizens on a mass scale is likely to raise prices on goods and services and lower employment rates for U.S. workers, many economists say.

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