The presentation of the Top 25 stories of 2020-2021 extends the tradition originated by Professor Carl Jensen and his Sonoma State University students in 1976, while reflecting how the expansion of the Project to include affiliate faculty and students from campuses across North America has made the Project even more diverse and robust. The Top 25 stories of 2020-2021 have been selected from several hundred candidate stories submitted by 209 student researchers and nineteen faculty evaluators from ten US college and university campuses.
More than 1.1 million seniors in the federal government’s Medicare program could die prematurely over the next decade because they will be unable to afford the high prices of their…