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October 18th, 2022

This Week: Polarization as a political strategy; votes that support LGBTQ+ rights depend upon who you know; Americans’ views on controversial school topics

    Good morning from USC Media Relations. With the midterms looming and speculation about the 2024 presidential election on the rise, put these four USC experts on your radar. One developed a ‘polarization index’ which tracks what’s dividing us; another studies what motivates both conservatives and liberals to support gay rights, and finally, two […]

critical race theory, high school, Immigration, LGBTQ+, polarization
Posted in News Releases, Source Alert, Source Alert Homepage
June 18th, 2020

A win for ‘Dreamers’: US Supreme Court decision blocks dismantling of DACA

Contact: USC Media Relations at uscnews@usc.edu or (213) 740-2215. The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed to remain in effect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy that protects undocumented immigrants whose families brought them into the country as children. The decision is a reprieve for about 700,000 “dreamers,” many of whom have closely monitored the Trump Administration’s  […]

DACA, Deferred action, Dreamers, immigrants, Immigration, students
Posted in News Releases, Source Alert
July 11th, 2019

Will Trump keep fighting for Census citizenship question?

Two weeks after a Supreme Court decision halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, President Donald Trump is expected to announce an executive action today to obtain an estimate of U.S. citizenship through other means. News of Trump’s expected announcement comes days after a federal judge rejected the administration’s plan to […]

census, census 2020, citizenship, citizenship question, immigrant, Immigration, Trump, undercount
Posted in News Releases, Source Alert
November 2nd, 2018

USC experts aTwitter over midterm elections

Follow our experts on Twitter and interact with them on Election Day for analysis and insights as the results roll in. Click to see our recent Midterm Election 2018 source alerts: Hacking the elections Campaign spending & dark money ‘Year of the Woman?’ Millennial voters Blue wave Contact: Jenesse Miller at (213) 810-8554 or jenessem@usc.edu […]

2018, civic, election, Elections, , government, Immigration, midterm elections, midterms, political, Politics, , Voters, women voters
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