IEI in the News

Our Faculty Fellows are frequently featured and quoted in national and international news publications. 

Select a month below for a listing of all recent mentions of the Institute for Educational Initiatives in news outlets.

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Headline IEI Fellow Publication Date
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September 2021

September 2021

Headline IEI Fellow Publication Date
Nun of Us Are Friends  Kathleen Cummings NPR 2021-09-23
Harvard's atheist chaplain: It's another sign of America's growing secularism  David Campbell
 		 USA Today 2021-09-19
Pope Francis says U.S. bishops debating Biden Communion should be pastors, not politicians  John McGreevy The Washington Post 2021-09-15
Admirers still urging sainthood for chaplain killed on 9/11  Kathleen Cummings Associated Press 2021-09-04

July 2021

July 2021

Headline IEI Fellow Publication Date
Can better tech make video meetings less excruciating?  Susan Blum BBC News 2021-07-26
LDS outreach to immigrants grows, pushing church members to examine GOP ties  David Campbell Religion News Service 2021-07-15

June 2021

June 2021

Headline IEI Fellow Publication Date
Communion vote puts spotlight on Hispanic Catholics  Timothy Matovina The Hill 2021-06-23
Amid dispute over Biden’s support of abortion rights, Catholic bishops to vote on controversial Communion document  Kathleen Cummings The Washington Post 2021-06-18
Supreme Court foster care ruling likely to prompt more tests of religion vs. LGBTQ rights  Rick Garnett USA Today 2021-06-18
US Catholic bishops OK steps toward possible rebuke of Biden  David Campbell Associated Press 2021-06-18
Supreme Court’s day of culture war surprises  Rick Garnett The Christian Science Monitor 2021-06-18
Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic agency in foster case  Rick Garnett Catholic News Service 2021-06-17
Supreme Court rules for Catholic foster care agency in Philadelphia, citing discrimination  Rick Garnett Los Angeles Times 2021-06-17
Religious freedom vs. LGBTQ rights: Supreme Court sides with Catholic foster care agency  Rick Garnett USA Today 2021-06-17
Supreme Court Sides With Catholic Agency In LBGTQ Foster Care Case—But Avoids Major Religious Freedom Questions  Rick Garnett Time 2021-06-17
Professor: Why I teach the much-debated 1619 Project — despite its flaws  John Duffy The Washington Post 2021-06-14
What Catholic bishops are actually saying about denying Communion to politicians  William C. Mattison III Religion News Service 2021-06-11
Biden and abortion could change the bishops’ culture of consensus at next week’s USCCB meeting  Kathleen Cummings America 2021-06-10

May 2021

May 2021

Headline IEI Fellow Publication Date
'Mare of Easttown' captures cultural Catholicism's lasting power  Kathleen Cummings National Catholic Reporter 2021-05-29
Abortion fight puts renewed focus on Biden's Catholicism  David Campbell The Hill 2021-05-26
The Supreme Court has an opportunity to correct the mistake of ‘Roe v. Wade’  Rick Garnett Our Sunday Visitor 2021-05-20
In Venezuela, a quest for sainthood offers proof of miracles  Kathleen Cummings National Geographic  2021-05-03

April 2021

April 2021

Headline IEI Fellow Publication Date
Jobless claims hit new pandemic low for third straight week, as labor market picks up  Jim Sullivan The Washington Post 2021-04-29
Support of Trump within church has driven some Catholics to the exits  David Campbell National Catholic Reporter 2021-04-29
Villanova conference elevates calls for Biden to be denied Communion  John McGreevy National Catholic Reporter 2021-04-27
The Controversial but Useful Practice of ‘Ungrading’ in Teaching Writing  Susan Blum The Chronicle of Higher Education 2021-04-26
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women varies by race and ethnicity, according to a new analysis  Jim Sullivan Business Insider 2021-04-24
What Teenagers Have Learned From a Tumultuous Time in Politics  David Campbell
Christina Wolbrecht		 The New York Times 2021-04-22
547,000 Americans filed jobless claims, a new pandemic low  Jim Sullivan The Washington Post 2021-04-22
Poverty soared to a pandemic high last month  Jim Sullivan NBC News 2021-04-21
One chart shows how pandemic poverty reached a new high in March  Jim Sullivan Business Insider 2021-04-21
Poverty rate rose to pandemic high ahead of new stimulus  Jim Sullivan Politico 2021-04-21
Despite falling unemployment, America’s poverty rate just reached the highest level since the pandemic began  Jim Sullivan MarketWatch 2021-04-20
U.S. Poverty Rate Rose to Pandemic High Ahead of New Stimulus  Jim Sullivan Bloomberg 2021-04-20
'Allergic reaction to US religious right' fueling decline of religion, experts say  David Campbell The Guardian 2021-04-05
President Biden is the nation’s 2nd Catholic president.  Kathleen Cummings CNBC 2021-04-03

March 2021

March 2021

Headline IEI Fellow Publication Date
How recipients will spend COVID relief payments depends on their income  Jim Sullivan Marketplace 2021-03-26
America's immigration impasse is self-inflicted. It doesn't have to be.  Luis Fraga NBC News 2021-03-26
US poverty is still high, but stimulus is stopping it from getting worse  Jim Sullivan CNN 2021-03-23
Satan’s Lawyers Try Christian-Right Tactics to Erect Winged Goat  Rick Garnett Bloomberg 2021-03-22
No Right to Pray on the 50-Yard Line for Coach (Podcast)  Rick Garnett Bloomberg 2021-03-22
The Evangelicals’ Trump Obsession Has Tarnished Christianity  David Campbell
Geoffrey Layman		 The Daily Beast 2021-03-21
Latino identities, always in the plural, and voting trends  Luis Fraga National Catholic Reporter 2021-03-17
Do You Commune With Nature?  Darcia Narvaez The Wall Street Journal 2021-03-16
The Latino vote: It doesn't exist, but it will decide the future  Luis Fraga National Catholic Reporter 2021-03-15
Supreme Court's COVID-19 cases stir up battle between religion, same-sex couples over foster care  Rick Garnett USA Today 2021-03-15
“Allergic to religion”: Conservative politics can push people out of the pews, new study shows  David Campbell
Geoffrey Layman		 Religion News Service 2021-03-12
Warren Buffett Becomes Sixth Member of $100 Billion Club  Jim Sullivan Bloomberg 2021-03-11
Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus could drastically cut poverty, studies say  Jim Sullivan Business Insider 2021-03-11
Senate Passes Next Stimulus Package, Inching It Closer To Becoming Law  Jim Sullivan Forbes 2021-03-06

February 2021

February 2021

Headline IEI Fellow Publication Date
House Passes $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package—Now It’s Up To The Senate  Jim Sullivan Forbes 2021-02-27
Stimulus measures helped lift 1.6 million Americans out of poverty  Jim Sullivan Yahoo 2021-02-26
How Rush Limbaugh helped turn feminism into an urgent threat to the Republican Party  Christina Wolbrecht USA Today 2021-02-19
COVID-19 economic relief should focus on those hit hardest  Jim Sullivan The Hill 2021-02-16
A Year of Hardship, Helped and Hindered by Washington  Jim Sullivan The New York Times 2021-02-14
Will Supreme Court Expand Religious Rights? (Podcast)  Rick Garnett
Jimmy Gurulé		 Bloomberg 2021-02-13
U.S. Child-Poverty Crisis Spurs Stepped-Up Efforts in Congress  Jim Sullivan Bloomberg 2021-02-09
Can Catholic Social Teaching Unite a Divided America?  John McGreevy The Wall Street Journal 2021-02-05
Opinion: It’s encouraging that reducing child poverty is now a bipartisan aspiration  Jim Sullivan The Washington Post 2021-02-05
As Biden prays for healing, Catholics clash over president’s faith  Kathleen Cummings ABC News 2021-02-01
Poverty increased most in states with poorer unemployment benefit systems  Jim Sullivan Yahoo 2021-02-01

January 2021

January 2021

Headline IEI Fellow Publication Date
‘The Capitol Insurrection Was as Christian Nationalist as It Gets.’  David Campbell The New York Times 2021-01-28
Over 6 Million Added to Food Stamp Rolls as Pandemic Surged  Jim Sullivan Bloomberg 2021-01-27
COVID-19 pummels U.S. economy in 2020; performance weakest in 74 years  Jim Sullivan Reuters 2021-01-27
Report: American Billionaires Have Added More Than $1 Trillion In Wealth During Pandemic  Jim Sullivan Forbes 2021-01-26
Over 8M Americans have fallen into poverty as COVID-19 relief benefits expired  Jim Sullivan Fox News 2021-01-26
America's billionaires have grown $1.1 trillion richer during the pandemic  Jim Sullivan CNN 2021-01-26
U.S. Records Worst Poverty Spike Since 1960s, Black Americans Hit Hardest  Jim Sullivan Newsweek 2021-01-25
U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years  Jim Sullivan Bloomberg 2021-01-25
8 million Americans have fallen into poverty in recent months as government benefits lapse, a new study finds  Jim Sullivan Business Insider 2021-01-25
How might Joe Biden’s Catholic faith guide his presidency?  Kathleen Cummings Today Show 2021-01-24
Biden claims his $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan will cut child poverty in half — here’s how  Jim Sullivan CNBC 2021-01-23
Why Kamala Harris and ‘Firsts’ Matter, and Where They Fall Short  Christina Wolbrecht The New York Times 2021-01-21
Joe Biden's very Catholic Cabinet  Kathleen Cummings National Catholic Reporter 2021-01-19
How Trump's most consequential policies have changed America  Jim Sullivan CNN 2021-01-17
US debt surged by $7 trillion under Trump. It will go much higher under Biden  Jim Sullivan CNN 2021-01-14
Beware entanglements? ‘Realists’ fret over Biden foreign policy.  Michael Desch The Christian Science Monitor 2021-01-12
Probe highlights Vatican legal system’s limited protections  Paolo Carozza Associated Press 2021-01-12
Capitol invasion adds to challenges facing incoming Biden administration  Rick Garnett Catholic News Service 2021-01-07
The legacy of 2020: Riches for the wealthy, well educated and often White, financial pain for others  Jim Sullivan CNBC 2021-01-01