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Haiti’s future is being planned on two tracks — one involving traditional political power, the other focused on the power of gangs. Photos You Should See View All 60 ImagesPrime Minister Ariel Henry announced Tuesday that he would resign once the transitional presidential council was created. Guyana President Irfaan Ali said the transitional council would have seven voting members and two nonvoting ones. The transitional council includes a role for civil society alongside the Montana one, but some observers say that is far from enough. Specifically, outside actors have undermined civil society and failed to punish bad elements, he said, making the work of constructing a functional society infinitely more difficult.

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☆ NY Fed to tackle weather-related risks in upcoming research barrage
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Michael S. Derby | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] A woman passes by The Federal Reserve Bank of New York in New York City, U.S., March 13, 2023. The New York Fed foray into the topic comes as the central bank has retreated from the climate issue after facing heat from some members of Congress. Meanwhile, the central bank formally joined in late 2020 with other major central banks in efforts to shore up the financial system against climate-related disruptions. Some in Congress have seen the Fed’s climate work as a sign of a politicized central bank. That said, the Fed has not ruled out thinking about how climate disruptions affect the full measure of the economy.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, there's, Jerome Powell, Loretta Mester, John Williams, ” Williams, Michael S, Andrea Ricci Organizations: Federal Reserve Bank of New, REUTERS, “, New York Fed, Fed, Cleveland Fed, Queens College, Thomson Locations: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, U.S, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Puerto Rico, Congress

☆ Fed on pause as policymakers parse mixed data
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"I believe we can wait, watch and see how the economy evolves before making definitive moves on the path of the policy rate," Fed Governor Christopher Waller told the European Economics & Financial Center Seminar in London. It can't continue this way, he said, but it's too soon to know which way the data will break. Should the economy soften, he said, "we can hold the policy rate steady." Speaking at a separate event at Queens College, New York Fed President John Williams offered a similar perspective. Fed policymakers are weighing whether that level is high enough to get inflation on a path to their 2% goal.

Persons: Christopher Waller, it's, John Williams, Waller, Ann Saphir, Michael S, Dan Burns, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Federal Reserve, European Economics & Financial, Queens College, Queens College , New York Fed, Fed, Derby, Thomson Locations: London, Washington, Queens College ,

☆ Opinion | America’s Top Librarian on the Rise of Book Bans
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Public libraries around the country have become major battlegrounds for today’s culture wars. In 2022, the American Library Association noted a record 1,269 attempts at censorship — almost double the number recorded in 2021. Emily Drabinski is the president of the American Library Association and an associate professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. This conversation unpacks the political and cultural anxieties fueling the attacks on libraries. Postal Service, how censorship attempts fit in the broader landscape of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation and much more.

Persons: Emily Drabinski, “, Ezra Klein, Tressie McMillan Cottom Organizations: American Library Association, Queens College Graduate School of Library, Information, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google, U.S . Postal Service

Harvard Admit rate: 4% 10k students Duke University Admit rate: 6% 7k students Amherst College Admit rate: 9% 2k students Carnegie Mellon University Admit rate: 14% 7k students University of California, Berkeley Admit rate: 14% 30k students Boston University Admit rate: 19% 20k students University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Admit rate: 20% 20k students University of Texas, Austin Admit rate: 29% 40k students University of Florida Admit rate: 30% 30k students Bucknell University Admit rate: 35% 4k students San Diego State University Admit rate: 38% 30k students Binghamton University Admit rate: 44% 10k students University of California, Davis Admit rate: 49% 30k students Clemson University Admit rate: 49% 20k students Stevens Institute of Technology Admit rate: 53% 4k students University of Washington, Seattle Campus Admit rate: 54% 40k students Brigham Young University Admit rate: 59% 30k students CUNY Queens College Admit rate: 61% 20k students Texas A & M University, College Station Admit rate: 64% 60k students University of Pittsburgh Admit rate: 67% 20k students Texas Tech University Admit rate: 68% 30k students Ball State University Admit rate: 68% 10k students Rutgers University, New Brunswick Admit rate: 68% 40k students Purdue University Admit rate: 69% 40k students Louisiana State University Admit rate: 71% 30k students University of Delaware Admit rate: 72% 20k students University of Central Missouri Admit rate: 76% 8k students Mississippi State University Admit rate: 76% 20k students University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Admit rate: 78% 10k students University of Alabama Admit rate: 79% 30k students University of North Carolina, Charlotte Admit rate: 79% 20k students University of Colorado Boulder Admit rate: 80% 30k students Drexel University Admit rate: 83% 10k students University of Arkansas Admit rate: 83% 20k students University of Cincinnati Admit rate: 85% 30k students University of Texas, Dallas Admit rate: 87% 20k students Suffolk University Admit rate: 88% 4k students Arizona State University Admit rate: 88% 60k students West Chester University of Pennsylvania Admit rate: 89% 10k students Grand Valley State University Admit rate: 92% 20k students University of Kansas Admit rate: 93% 20k students Utah State University Admit rate: 93% 20k students California State University, Sacramento Admit rate: 94% 30k students University of Utah Admit rate: 95% 30k students Kansas State University Admit rate: > 95% 20k students University of Wyoming Admit rate: > 95% 9k students 90% admission rate 80% admission rate 70% admission rate 60% admission rate 50% admission rate 40% admission rate 30% admission rate 20% admission rate 10% admission rate These are America’s major four-year colleges, arranged by their admission rates. Just 6 percent of all college students attend a school with an acceptance rate of 25 percent or less. 56 percent of these college students go to a school that admits at least three-quarters of its applicants. These statistics reveal a simple fact about affirmative action in higher education: It mattered very little for the majority of American college students. But because affirmative action only opened a tiny window of access to America’s most elite institutions, the ruling will make little difference for most college students.

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☆ Nasim Alikhani Brings the Flavors of Iran to America
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nasim Alikhani says she was a 23-year-old “twig of a girl” when she left her war-torn home in Iran, arriving alone in New Jersey in 1983. Poor and disoriented, she commuted to Queens College to study English and threw herself into the cheap comforts of American fast food. “There was a McDonald’s and a Dunkin’ Donuts right next to the college, and you could pay a dollar for this massive bucket of fries,” she recalls. Yet she soon found her new diet unsustainable: “I gained about 20 pounds in a month.”

Persons: Nasim Alikhani, ” Organizations: Queens College Locations: Iran, New Jersey

☆ The tech boom created billionaires and 'a whole lot of really poor, unhappy people,' says prolific author Douglas Rushkoff
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Writer and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff has changed his thinking on the digital boom, he told Wired. Rushkoff, who now teaches, said the digital economy made billionaires, but also "poor, unhappy people." He told his students he was "excited" in the 1990s about the possibilities of the digital economy. Despite the optimism for the potentials of the digital economy he had decades ago, Rushkoff has changed his thinking, Wired reports. He also told Wired that he's "come to see these technologies as intrinsically antihuman."

☆ Bond yields around the world coming down on growth concerns, says Mohamed El-Erian
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBond yields around the world coming down on growth concerns, says Mohamed El-ErianMohamed El-Erian, Allianz and Gramercy Advisor and president of Queens College, Cambridge, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss market activity around the world, financial stability concerns behind the Fed slowdown, and global currency tensions.

☆ Mohamed El-Erian says don't cheer this rally as the Fed is still grappling with a 'trilemma'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Mohamed El-Erian cautioned investors that this stock market rally is driven by the ever-changing expectations in Federal Reserve policy, and it shouldn't have lasting power. El-Erian, Allianz and Gramercy advisor and president of Queens College, Cambridge, said the Fed is dealing with a "trilemma" — growth, inflation and financial stability, and it could be forced to slow down tightening for financial stability concerns. This is because of financial stability. This massive front-loading of rate hikes will break something in the financial markets," EL-Erian said. "So if the Fed does slow, it is because we have financial stability concerns."

☆ CDC is discussing using oral polio vaccine for first time in 20 years to stop New York outbreak
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"There will be lots of thought and discussion about the reintroduction of an oral polio vaccine into the United States," she said. The oral polio vaccine is much more effective at stopping transmission of the virus and is normally used to quash outbreaks. The novel oral polio vaccine was developed to stop poliovirus outbreaks caused by the less stable older version of the vaccine, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Any decision to use the novel oral polio vaccine would require either an approval or emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. The World Health Organization recommends that countries using the inactivated vaccine, such as the U.S., consider deploying the novel oral polio vaccine if the inactivated shots don't stop the outbreak.

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