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July 16, 2024

Research

Trump says migrants are fueling violent crime. Here is what the research shows

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Reuters

“Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas, opens new tab” by Michael Light, sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and two other researchers.

The 2020 study was published in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.• The report, which used data from the Texas Department of Public Safety between 2012-2018, found a lower felony arrest rate for immigrants in the U.S. illegally compared to legal immigrants and native-born U.S. citizens and no evidence of increasing criminality among immigrants.

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Health

Dr. Tiffany Green named Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research

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Madison365

Dr. Tiffany Green, one of the country’s leading health economists working in the area of reproductive health equity and maternal mortality disparities, has been named the new Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD, Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research. Green is the associate professor in the UW Department of Ob-Gyn Division of Reproductive and Population Health and the UW SMPH Department of Population Health Sciences.

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Land trusts to seek more Stewardship funds after state Supreme Court decision

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Wisconsin had become a national outlier in the authority that it gives to legislative committees, according to Miriam Seifter, a UW-Madison law professor and co-director of the State Democracy Research Initiative.

Steph Tai is also a UW-Madison law professor and associate dean for education and faculty affairs at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. They said the ruling gives more free rein to agencies.

The GOP Convention Kicks Off in a City Where Republicans Don’t Want People to Vote

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Mother Jones

After the election, registered voters in Milwaukee County and Madison’s Dane County were surveyed about why they didn’t cast a ballot. Eleven percent cited the voter ID law and said they didn’t have an acceptable ID; of those, more than half said the law was the “main reason” they didn’t vote. According to the study’s author, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Kenneth Mayer, that finding implies that between 12,000 and 23,000 registered voters in Madison and Milwaukee—and as many as 45,000 statewide—were deterred from voting by the ID law. “We have hard evidence there were tens of thousands of people who were unable to vote because of the voter ID law,” he said.