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.

The Richer You are, The More Likely You’ll Social Distance, Study Finds

The higher a person’s income, the more likely they were to protect themselves at the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, Johns Hopkins University economists find.

When it comes to adopting behaviors including social distancing and mask wearing, the team detected a striking link to their financial well-being. People who made around $230,000 a year were as much as 54% more likely to increase these types of self-protective behaviors compared to people making about $13,000.

January 14, 2021 Tags: COVID-19, economic inequality, income, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, masks, Nicholas Papageorge, Pandemic, poverty, protective behavior, social distancing
| Category: Business and Economics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Social Sciences

With Just One Black Teacher, Black Students More Likely to Graduate

Low-income black students who have at least one black teacher in elementary school are significantly more likely to graduate high school and consider attending college, concludes a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University economist.

April 5, 2017 Tags: black students, black teachers, college, Education, graduation, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, poverty, race, race match effect, role model effect
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12

Teens in Poorest Families Go Hungry More Than Younger Kids

In very poor families, teenagers are going hungry twice as often as their younger siblings, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds.

February 13, 2017 Tags: extreme poverty, food insecurity, hunger, Johns Hopkins University, poverty, Robert A. Moffitt
| Category: Business and Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences

U.S. Welfare Spending Up — But Help for the Neediest Down

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

JHU Course Uses “The Wire” As Lens On Urban Issues

Though it’s located in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University’s verdant and well-manicured Homewood campus seems a world away from the gritty drug corners and public housing projects that form the backdrop for the groundbreaking, critically acclaimed five-season HBO drama “The Wire.” But inside a classroom in Hodson Hall, a group of undergraduates is immersing itself in that other world, thanks to a new public health studies course called “Baltimore and ‘The Wire’: A Focus on Major Urban Issues.” Created and taught by former Baltimore City Health Commissioner Peter Beilenson – currently Howard County health officer – the class uses the fictional but highly realistic world of the former TV series as a lens through which to view issues confronting not only Baltimore, but also other major American urban centers, from Detroit to Philadelphia to Los Angeles.

October 7, 2010 Tags: Andres Alonso, Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore City Public Schools, criminal justice, David Simon, Ed Norris, HBO, homelessness, Homewood campus, Howard County, Kurt Schmoke, Martin O'Malley, need exchange, Patricia Jessamy, Peter Beilenson, poverty, the war on drugs, The Wire, urban health issues, urban issues
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences