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Notre Dame economics professor featured in ‘New York Times’ for reflections on expanding child tax credit

Gabrielle Penna | Friday, February 19, 2021

Part of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Recovery Plan to address increased economic inequality during the pandemic includes proposed changes to the child tax credit policy by temporarily providing additional funds to parents. Earlier this month, Sen. Mitt Romney proposed an alternative bill that would give parents more money than allocated in the America Recovery

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Law student reflects on political activism, new position to Kamala Harris

Serena Zacharias | Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Third-year law student Rachel Palermo said she became interested in politics when she was in high school. Now she’s serving as the assistant press secretary to vice president Kamala Harris while finishing up her law degree. “I think it all kind of started with high school speech team, and then it kind of spurred through

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ND law student to join Harris’ staff following inauguration

Observer Staff Report | Friday, January 15, 2021

Rachel Palermo, a third-year Notre Dame Law student will work as assistant press secretary to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris after President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated next week, according to a Jan. 8 Biden-Harris press release. Palermo completed her undergraduate degree at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, and from there, worked for the Democratic National Committee

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Pete Buttigieg expected to be nominated as transportation secretary

Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is expected to be nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to be his transportation secretary, according to sources close to the President-elect. The secretary of transportation oversees federal transportation programs and an agency with about 58,000 employees. After dropping out of the presidential race, Buttigieg endorsed Biden for president. Buttigieg

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ND faculty member nominated to be secretary of veterans affairs

Observer Staff Report | Friday, December 11, 2020

On Friday, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Denis McDonough, a professor of the practice of public policy in the Keough School of Global Affairs, to the position of secretary of veterans affairs, permitting Senate approval. McDonough has been a Notre Dame faculty member since 2017, teaching courses on public policy analysis and formulation as well as

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Healing for the holidays

Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, November 10, 2020

When I was about nine, I fell off my bike. My brother and I had ridden our bikes to the park, and on the way back, I veered off the sidewalk, fell on the pavement and skinned my knee. It was a pretty nasty fall — my poor, seven-year-old brother stared at me with wide

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Biden elected president, defeating Trump

Observer Staff Report | Monday, November 9, 2020

Democratic candidate Joe Biden was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, after days of ballot counting and uncertainty. Biden received more votes in the 2020 election than any other presidential candidate in the country’s history. Biden, 77, defeated President Donald Trump after he was projected to win Pennsylvania and secured 290

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Presidential election remains too close to call, likely to continue for days

Serena Zacharias | Wednesday, November 4, 2020

With several states still counting ballots, no clear winner has been determined and the 2020 presidential election is expected to continue for days. Trump secured the electoral votes of battleground states including Florida, Ohio and Iowa early Wednesday, but a number of other key states — Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — are still too

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Election Night 2020: Minute-by-minute on the tri-campus

Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, November 4, 2020

7 p.m. — President Donald Trump wins Kentucky, and Democrat Joe Biden wins Vermont, the Associated Press reports. 7:10 p.m. — Flaherty Hall: As the first polls begin to close, the energy in Flaherty Hall is almost like any other night. Watch parties have not yet begun, and students shuffle out the doors to get

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ND political science experts weigh in on election results throughout election night

Isabella Volmert | Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Associate News Editor Isabella Volmert talked to Notre Dame political science experts over the course of Tuesday night as the primary votes came in across the country. 6:44 p.m. — Joshua Kaplan, political science department’s director of undergraduate studies Isabella Volmert: Looking to the rest of the night, this presidential election is very different than

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