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Jan 24, 2025 | 
priceschool.usc.edu | Christian Hetrick
USC Price alum Jennifer Gray Thompson, a leading expert on wildfire recovery, explains what local and federal officials can do to rebuild L.A.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
priceschool.usc.edu | Lance Ignon |Christian Hetrick
USC PriceNewsJust Say “Climate Change” – not “Climate Emergency” In 2019, The Guardian newspaper announced that it would start using the terms “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” in place of “climate change.” “The phrase ‘climate change’, for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity,” said the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. But as it turns out, the gentler approach is more effective.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
priceschool.usc.edu | Christian Hetrick
Will Biden drop out of the presidential race? President Joe Biden. (Photo: Wiki Commons) After President Joe Biden’s shaky debate performance, Democrats are divided over whether the 81-year-old president should still seek a second term – or drop out of the race. Democratic leaders in Congress could play a key role in whether Biden continues his campaign, according to political historian Jeffery A.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
priceschool.usc.edu | Christian Hetrick
Stephany Herrera, a student at the USC Price School of Public Policy, hasn’t had many opportunities to leave her home state of California. So when she heard of the Maymester program in Detroit – where students tackle real-life policy challenges in the Motor City – she pounced at the chance to visit the Midwest.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
priceschool.usc.edu | Christian Hetrick
USC PriceNewsUSC Price grads win top award advising nonprofit choir As Tony Domenick and Blake Nawa’a sang at venues across Colorado, they often dreamed of a more collaborative choir. The professional singers usually worked with choirs run by a sole artistic director, resulting in poor solutions to rehearsal problems, less diverse musical repertoires, or little use of other experts.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
phys.org | Christian Hetrick
Earlier this year, New Hampshire voters received a phone message that sounded like President Joe Biden, discouraging them to vote in the state's primary election. The voice on the line, however, was not really Biden's—it was a robocall created with artificial intelligence (AI) to deceptively mimic the president.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
priceschool.usc.edu | Christian Hetrick
Confirm across multiple sources. If you see an image or video that makes someone’s point too perfectly, confirms a conspiracy theory, or attacks a candidate – take a moment before sharing, Stein said. “We are in an era in which instead of believing it, instead of retweeting it, instead of sharing it, you are going to have to go and double check it,” he said. “You’re going to have to Google it. See if it’s being reported by other sources. See if it’s been debunked.” Use news from trusted sources.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
priceschool.usc.edu | Christian Hetrick
Ernesto Corona has long felt that his father – labor organizer Humberto “Bert” Corona – didn’t get the recognition he deserved. From the 1940s to 1960s, the Mexican-American activist and USC alum was an early organizer of undocumented workers and founded one of California’s oldest Latino political organizations, the Mexican American Political Association.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Christian Hetrick
Mothers whose pregnancies span two calendar years could face higher out-of-pocket costs for maternity care simply because of when they became pregnant, according to a USC study published in the American Journal of Managed Care. The study, from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, finds that some women with high-deductible health plans pay their cost-sharing limit twice during pregnancies that occur across two health plan years, which are typically calendar years.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
healthpolicy.usc.edu | Christian Hetrick
Mothers whose pregnancies span two calendar years could face higher out-of-pocket costs for maternity care simply because of when they became pregnant, according to a new USC study. The study, from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, finds that some women with high-deductible health plans pay their cost-sharing limit twice during pregnancies that occur across two health plan years, which are typically calendar years.
