Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
Janet Yellen’s term as chair of the Federal Reserve is slated to end in February 2018. Speculation is underway about who President Donald Trump might choose to be her successor in the highly influential role leading the central bank of the United States.
Johns Hopkins University has several experts available, all with extensive media commentating experience, to discuss this and any news related to The Fed.
October 19, 2017 Tags: Alessandro Rebucci, economics, Economics experts, Experts on The Fed, Federal Reserve, Financial market experts, Janet Yellen, Johns Hopkins University, Jon Faust, Jonathan Wright, Laurence Ball, Robert Barbera, The Fed
| Category: Business and Economics, Public policy
Chronically ill, low-income women who thought they were dying, experienced a sharp reduction in domestic violence after getting access to a life-saving treatment, a Johns Hopkins University-led study found.
March 8, 2017 Tags: domestic violence, economics, HAART, Nicholas W. Papageorge, women's health
| Category: Business and Economics, Psychology, Social Sciences
The following Johns Hopkins University experts, whose research focuses on such subjects as race, economic policy, inequality, gun violence, law enforcement and health care, are available for interviews during the presidential election season.
July 26, 2016 Tags: economics, Election experts, issues, Johns Hopkins University, politics, Presidential election, race
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health, Social Sciences
When evaluating the same black student, white teachers expect significantly less academic success than black teachers, a new Johns Hopkins University study concludes. This is especially true for black boys.
March 30, 2016 Tags: economics, Education, Nicholas W. Papageorge, race, teacher expectations, teachers
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
A sick person is obviously willing to pay for a good medical treatment, but a Johns Hopkins University economist and his collaborators finds healthy people are potentially a much broader, if largely overlooked, market for medical innovations.
December 1, 2015 Tags: AIDS, economics, HAART, HIV, infectious disease, innovation, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, pharmaceutical research
| Category: Business and Economics, Medicine and Nursing
With the unemployment rate inching lower and lower, policymakers predict recovery from the recession is imminent. But the Federal Reserve could help create even more jobs by keeping interest rates near zero and tolerating a little inflation, a Johns Hopkins University economist argues.
March 25, 2015 Tags: economics, economy, Federal Reserve System, inflation, Johns Hopkins University, Laurence Ball, unemployment
| Category: Business and Economics
Although the United States is spending more on welfare than ever before, most of that money is going to better-off families rather than the very poorest. That means in 2014, a family of four earning $11,925 a year likely got less aid than a same-sized family earning $47,700.
May 6, 2014 Tags: economics, Johns Hopkins University, poverty, Robert A. Moffitt, social safety net, welfare
| Category: Business and Economics, Social Sciences, Uncategorized
The report, published this month in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, shows the country’s “social safety net” expanded to catch many Americans during the economic downturn, which lasted roughly from 2008 through 2009.
November 19, 2013 Tags: economics, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Robert A. Moffitt
| Category: Business and Economics
Several scholars at The Johns Hopkins University are available to help reporters with stories about the federal debt ceiling, including whether it should be raised by the deadline on Tuesday, Aug. 2, and the effect that either raising or lowering the debt limit will have on world affairs.
July 27, 2011 Tags: debt ceiling, economics, economy, politics
| Category: Government and Politics
