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February 5, 2020

Research

How each US state is impacting the personal finance IQ of students

CNBC

Melody Harvey, National Poverty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty, found in a study she conducted that state-level personal finance education requirements make young individuals significantly less likely to borrow payday loans than peers who were not provided the education, across race, ethnicity and gender.

Higher Education/System

Campus life

Madison, WI Regulators Aim to Limit Robot Food Delivery

The Spoon

Looks like Starship’s delivery robots may be blocked from roaming the city streets of Madison, WI. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the local Transportation Policy and Planning Board there unanimously recommended a measure yesterday that would prohibit the delivery robots everywhere in the city except for the University of Wisconsin.

State news

Crime and safety

Agriculture

Health

Public awareness helps curb epidemic, rumors

Global Times

Judith Walzer Leavitt, the author of above-mentioned book, was a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She summarized the harsh experience of establishing the public health system in Milwaukee and described the process of citizens gaining knowledge of disease prevention.

Athletics

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